Opposed to Carcassonne, Sunday, the Columérins expect a fierce battle at the four corners of the field. In the front line, the clash promises in particular for Victor Delmas and his acolytes.
A return to business on a field which has not been successful at Les Columérins in the league since May 22, 2016… Traveling to Carcassonne is never easy, but doing it after the postponements of the matches against Biarriz and Perpignan and three weeks without having had the slightest opposition in the legs looks like a huge challenge for the gang to Julien Sarraute and Fabien Berneau. Despite this difficult context to understand and manage which requires permanent adaptation, good humor does not leave columerine attitudes. It can be seen on the face of Victor Delmas whose smile we can guess although it is masked. The right-hander, back at Colomiers for almost a year, relishes, with moderation and humility, the good start to the club’s season at La Colombe. A hitch in Valence-Romans, then four consecutive successes, the most recent with the way against Soyaux-Angoulême, passed through the mill in Bendichou before the forced interruption. During this last opposition in mid-October, the native Montalbanais who does not forget his roots – he joined forces with his parents and his sister to open a bar “Le Come Back Kennedy” and a brasserie restaurant “Le Flingueur “in the city of Tarn-et-Garonnaise – held the exercise for the first time after coming off the bench in Aurillac and against Aix-en-Provence.
The one who shares the post with the experienced Beka Sheklashvili and Kane Palma-Newport, “a healthy competition because everyone is involved” he confides, has distinguished himself by his strong activity on the ground, his dynamism and his mobility always also surprising for its size (1.87m, 118kg). Assets which have enabled him to “catch up with defensive surpluses” as Fabien Berneau, the forwards coach, points out. His good performance on the right flank of the scrum – one of his axes of progression – also pleased the staff.
Questioning necessary
It will take at least a performance of the same ilk, if not more to face Friday against the very famous Audois pack known for its physical density. But fear not, this is not the type of boy to rest on his laurels: “Our last four games have shown positive results in particular in terms of the homogeneity of the workforce but we should not rest on it . In front, we know very well that it is a questioning every week, “concludes this optimist by nature, his head firmly anchored on his shoulders.
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