Top 14 – Ronan O’Gara (Stade Rochelles): “This week, players were more focused on real estate prices on Ile de Rey”
In a cold angry morning of deep disappointment, the Maritimes manager admitted his helplessness against his team’s poor performances and their behavior this week. Be careful, it’s moving…
What do you analyze this defeat?
We have 33% missed tackles in the first half, which is too high to hope for anything. And in the second half we continued to play touch. We didn’t deserve anything, and it’s great when it’s like that. We were dangerous with the ball in the first half. But more than 80 minutes is not enough. Especially outside. Rugby is a fighting game and today we played touch.
A positive point, though?
We weren’t good at anything. Not in possession, not in desire, not in vision, not in execution… It’s a dark day for the club. It is very easy to say that there are absent. To me, that doesn’t explain this horrible, almost catastrophic performance. With all the respect I have for this club, Lou was dying against us at 14-3, and we weren’t able to kill this match. It’s serious, but it’s an exact reflection of what happened in training. I’m not surprised, I’m disappointed. The message does not go through. Young Penvern and Jago were the most efficient in terms of aggression. The rest…
We feel you have no solution after this meeting…
If I can provide a solution after this then I am a genius. This is not my vision of how to represent your club on a Saturday afternoon. We were not a club that respected his supporters, his family… It was an absolute shame.
However, you came close to changing the match with fifteen minutes to go…
Furthermore, despite all our weaknesses, we were not helped. We looked at the role of the TMO at Murrayfield last week. There, we had a try by Joel Sclavey and we didn’t call it. for what When do we call him? When we want? And as luck would have it, it falls on the away team…
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This match is similar to the one played in Toulon, somewhere…
We thought this match could push us into the top 6, like in Toulon. But we repeat, we repeat, we repeat the same mistakes …
Sorry to insist, but we feel defeated. Are you angry at your players, frustrated with them?
I cannot be disappointed because I have seen how we trained. This week, players were more focused on real estate prices on Ile de Ré than on the field. It depends on what you want in life. If you want to get rich in apartments or houses, or get rich in medals. So no, I’m not disappointed or surprised.
