Rugby / National. The Dijon stadium launches its last stand with the reception of Tarbes

Dijon stadium – Tarbes

3 p.m., Bourillot

The objective is clear on the stadist side. If no relegation will be pronounced at the end of this exercise, these Burgundians have promised themselves to end the season on a good note. To prove that this group has its place in National, it must imperatively pass under the checkered flag in 12e position. In the worst case.

However, four stages from the finish, the business is far from over, since Chambéry, Aubenas and Cognac / Saint-Jean-d’Angély, for example, have one or more remedial sessions available to them.

The direct consequence of this purely factual observation is that these Stadists have, this afternoon, no room for error. “We are lucky to be able to play,” assures Simon Hartmann, who will celebrate his second start in a row at the Dijon wing.

“We are competitors, when we enter the field, it is not to lose. It will never be the case. We will not go down, the facts are there. Now, we hide this notion from our head. We will sell our skin dearly. We will even do everything to win and be as efficient as possible. “

Of character?

The kid – who has just blown out his 20 candles – announces that he wants to offer himself a new gift. “We prepared it in the best possible way,” he says. It is necessary because if this young man did not know the luster of Stado Tarbais, in particular unhappy finalist of the championship of France 1988 vis-a-vis Agen, he knows that currently these Occitans are to be taken with tweezers.

Four successes have come to fill their hood during the last five outings, twenty points (against only fifteen in Dijon) were gleaned in 2021 by these Bigourdans, once again en masse in the starting XV of the day (7 in total). “Out of pride and pride, we must win at all costs this weekend,” thunders in turn, Benjamin Noirot, the president’s adviser.

“They are quite dense and strong. We will have to attack them both offensively and defensively, ”concludes a technician in a hurry to see what fire his troops are having.

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