For the trip to the Hamlet where it won last season (33-37), the UBB will be deprived of around fifteen players. Selected players (Falatea, Tameifuna, Lucu, Jalibert, Moefana, Cordero) and injured players, spared or in the recovery phase (Boniface, Lamothe, Jolmes, Cazeaux, Petti, Marais, Miquel, Vergnes-Taillefer, Lachaise, Uberti, Buros ).
Compared to the starting XV against Toulon, there are nine changes. Lekso Kaulashvili and Pablo Dimcheff join the front row with Vadim Cobilas. In the second line, it is Alban Roussel who will support Kane Douglas.
First for Giammarioli
The most fragile sector is that of the third line. The staff therefore recalled the Australian Caleb Timu who has not played since October 9 in Lyon, a match during which he received his second yellow card of the season. He will be supervised by captain Mahamadou Diaby and Pierre Bochaton.
Jules Gimbert, author of a punchy entry against the RCT, will wear number 9 and form the hinge with Zack Holmes. Also decisive last weekend, Federico Mori will be aligned in the center with Tani Vili. A change in the rear triangle with the tenure of Geoffrey Cros alongside Madosh Tambwe and Louis Bielle-Biarrey.
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There is also movement on the bench where hooker Clément Maynadier, hit in the shoulder in early October, is back. First appearance for Italian third line Renato Giammarioli who arrived from Worcester this autumn. And first score sheet this season for second line Petero Mailulu and center Gatien Massé.
On the Pau side, Gorgadze, Papidze and Pinto are in selection, Tuimaba, Rey, Corato and Decron in the infirmary. On the other hand, the powerful Samoan center Tumua Manu is back.
The compositions
Pau Section : Maddocks – Ikpefan, Manu, Vatubua, Laporte – Debaes (o) Daubagna (m) – Whitelock, Joseph, Zegueur – Metz, Ducat – Tokolahi, Delhommel, Calles.
Substitutes : Ruffenach, Senaca, Tagitagivalu, Puech, Mondinat, Le Bail, Gailleton, Van Dyk.
UBB : Bielle-Biarrey – Cros, Vili, Mori, Tambwe – Holmes (o) Gimbert (m) – Diaby, Timu, Bochaton – Roussel, Douglas – Cobilas, Dimcheff, Kaulashvili.
Substitutes : Maynadier, Poirot, Mailulu, Giammarioli, Lesgourgues, Garcia, Massé, Vaotoa.
Section Paloise – UBB, it’s a match to live in full on France Bleu Gironde and francebleu.fr this Sunday from 3 p.m. with comments from Arnaud Carré and Dorian Bercheny.