The comeback of the two “Stade”, the title of Biarritz, the EDF against the Southern Hemisphere and the rivalry with England.
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Label Deschamps
12/29/2020 at 1:13 am
the top 30 is not far off my list, so much the better. I thought of Graulhet yes, Revallier, all that, beforehand. An era … These clubs are playing in federal 2 now.
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Mevatlav Ekraspeck
12/29/2020 at 3:08 am
Ah, Graulhet, one of the two black beasts of the great Béziers …
And justly…
We had a discussion about what “the great Béziers” was not long ago. I took the time to give you a little statistical information …
Overall assessment of AS Béziers between the seasons 1969-1970 and 1984-1985, i.e. 16 seasons.
16 qualifiers in the final phase.
10 French championship titles
A lost final (1976, against Agen)
Elimination in the semi-finals (1973 against Dax)
Elimination in the quarter-finals (1985 against Toulouse)
Three eliminations in the round of 16 (1970 against Brive, 1979 against Bagnères, 1982 against Lourdes in a return match).
Season when ASB is undefeated:
1970-1971, 17 wins and 2 draws (in Pau and Dijon).
1971-1972, 18 wins and 1 draw (at Montauban).
1974-1975, 19 victories.
1977-1978, 19 victories.
In details :
Year V N D For Against
Total 1970 13 0 3 388 135
Total 1971 17 2 0 437 72
Total 1972 18 1 0 659 96
Total 1973 16 0 2 548 141
Total 1974 16 0 3 312 124
Total 1975 19 0 0 567 130
Total 1976 16 1 2 553 163
Total 1977 19 0 1 703 133
Total 1978 19 0 0 731 166
Total 1979 15 1 4 458 175
Total 1980 20 0 3 602 178
Total 1981 15 0 8 621 235
Total 1982 13 0 7 403 185
Total 1983 17 1 5 442 218
Total 1984 14 3 2 413 195
Total 1985 14 1 6 449 295
Statistical review:
317 matches played, for 261 wins, 10 draws, 46 losses. Average match score: 26 to 8.
Defense :
32 matches without collecting points, plus 59 matches without conceding a single try or penalty or drop-goal.
Attack:
25 matches won by 50 pts difference or more
24 matches won by 40 pts or more.
25 matches won by 30 pts or more.
50 matches won by 20 pts or more.
Only six matches (out of 317) ended without Béziers scoring over this period, against Bègles (1970), Bagnères (1973), Mazamet (1981), Pau (1984) and Toulouse twice (1985 x2). But “fanny” were not rare at the time.
A domicile :
In all, eight defeats at Sauclières in 30 seasons, and 95 matches without defeat between Béziers-Brive 0-6 season 1968-1969 (January 6, 1969) and Béziers La Voulte 10-19 1981-1982 (October 11, 1981).
The results between the seasons 1969-1970 and 1984-1985:
128 victories for 1 defeat, for an average score of 38 to 6 (4963 pts for, 875 pts against).
For more details: https://www.rugbiterre.com/a-la-une/il-y-a-50-ans-las-biterroise-entamait-sa-legendaire-invincibilite-a-sauclieres/
Record of the biggest victory in the championship, 100 to zero against Montchanin on December 16, 1979, (including eleven tries for Fabre)…
And again, I will not go into details … It should also be noted that, like any monster, the ASB also had its pet peeves: La Voulte, which snatches three wins and a draw and the capture of Sauclières, and in a lesser degree Pau, Aurillac, Montauban, Toulon, Bayonne, Bagnères, Graulhet, La Rochelle, and Oloron, who will have succeeded in bringing down the colossus several times.
When can we date the fall of ASB? I will point out two significant reverses, signed Toulouse. It is the red and black that put an end to the reign of the myth, by two symbolic acts: the 21-0 inflicted in the quarter-finals of the 1884-1985 season, a first for the ASB in years that not to score in the minus three points in a playoff game. And in 1986, in the pool stage, the Stadium exploded the ASB 43 to 12, as for a transfer of power.
The ASB, although declining, is still in the running during the quarters in 86 (beaten by Agen) and 1987 (released by Toulon), but the domination is no longer the same, the old Sauclières is no longer impregnable. Narbonne and Toulouse came in 1986, Graulhet in 1987 (as well as two draws for Montferrand and Grenoble), Toulon and Tarbes in 1988. These two setbacks cost the Hérault residents the qualification, a first since the 1950-1951 season. They will never see the Brennus or the Parc des Princes again. Toulouse, Stade Français, then the BO will don the costume of the master, but without displaying the same maddening statistics or the same outrageous domination.
Of course, times have changed, and so has the game, but no club has reached a comparable level of crushing of the competition over such a long period.
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Etienne Mattler
12/29/2020 at 9:23 am
And symbolically, Pierre Lacans, the captain of Béziers, died in a road accident at the start of the 85-86 season, when it really began to be over.
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lunatic XV
12/29/2020 at 3:23 p.m.
Thank you Mev for this panorama which will seem exotic to the youngest of us …
This Béziers was very very very strong anyway, it makes you dream of the stats that you release.
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Mevatlav Ekraspeck
12/29/2020 at 6:45 p.m.
We only realize with hindsight that this fifteen-year domination of a sport is clearly exceptional. Maybe the PSG cheated on petrodollars could do it … I would have to look at the ASVEL case in basketball, where the young ladies of Clermont of the orange ball, they achieved similar things,
There are few images left of what a Béziers group game was like, to realize their phenomenal physical embrace imposed on others.
A bit like the NBA, there was a real difference between the regular season and the finals, the game is not the same because the physical and defensive intensity was not at all the same.
But Béziers “ran in” for fourteen or eighteen matches its crushing system, its automatisms, playing in unbridled mode. Sure of their strength, they allowed themselves fantasies.
In the final phase, the gigantic Biterrois crusher that constituted the pack no longer “spit out” a ball at its rear until it was certain that it had crushed everything patiently and meticulously.
This frivolity will be blamed on them, moreover, because the spectacular game of the ASB that pulverized its visitors to Sauclieres disintegrated in the spring under the demand of the results. The artists who became embalmers-anesthetists, they did not inspire any sympathy.
But it is this image that remains to us, the final stages being filmed and broadcast live on TV. Béziers was a fantastic machine to play, however, but their hatred of risk coupled with their addiction to victory drove them into dire restrictions.
Note that, according to the images and the press of the time, they were never caught in their own trap in the final phase, except against Lourdes in the 1/8 AR. The Bayonnais, Dacquois or Agenais rear had found solutions to bypass the monster.
But it took a hell of a lot of talent and some good circumstances to get through.
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Tricky
12/29/2020 at 7:56 p.m.
Mevatlav Ekraspeck
today at 03:08
Record of the biggest victory in the championship, 100 to zero against Montchanin on December 16, 1979, (including eleven tries for Fabre)…
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I swear to you that I remember as if it was yesterday to discover incredulously the result in La Montagne while eating the croissants from my grandmother’s baker. And she: This is what happens when you play in black.
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Utaka souley
12/29/2020 at 10:27 p.m.
@Mev
I spent my 4 years of college and my 3 years of high school in Béziers. My school housed the Sports Studies Rugby section, and among the boarders, there were the Cambérabéro brothers (Didier and Gilles). In final year, my sports teacher was called Raoul Barrière. In 1981, Mitterrand was elected on May 10, Béziers won the title on May 25, and the bac philosophy test was June 3. I think I still had a headache.
We came across Vacquerin on the Allées, Estève in a box, Palmié in front of his insurance firm, Escande, Cantoni, Fabre in town too.
And the Monday morning sports session, in final, invariably began with the 20 laps of the field, while the good Raoul commented on the matches of the day before with the gardener. That year, in sports, we did not touch a soccer ball once.
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Utaka souley
12/29/2020 at 10:36 p.m.
To complete Mev’s point a little, the group stages gave rise to matches which could be frankly unbalanced; from then on, the forwards were allowed to let the rear have fun too.
Barrière’s philosophy was nevertheless the emphasis on the phases of conquest and domination of the pack.
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CHR$
12/29/2020 at 10:45 p.m.
“Mevatlav Ekraspeck
today at 6:45 p.m.
We only realize with hindsight that this fifteen-year domination of a sport is clearly exceptional. Maybe the PSG cheated on petrodollars could do it … I would have to look at the ASVEL case in basketball, where the young ladies of Clermont of the orange ball, they achieved similar things “
The ASVEL is a little different: no period of such absolute domination (only once three consecutive titles between 55 and 57 and three others retention of the title from one year to the next only) but thirty years to win on average one in two titles.
(on the other hand, if you are looking for a team that wins everything for about fifteen years, there is a series in progress which even extends a little to Europe).
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Label Deschamps
12/29/2020 at 11:03 pm
the volleyball players from Cannes, the basketball players from Bourges are very strong.
Etienne Mattler
12/29/2020 at 11:36 p.m.
“Mevatlav Ekraspeck
today at 6:45 p.m.
the young ladies of Clermont of the orange ball, they achieved similar things “
Well seen: 12 titles in a row and a final one for the road a little later.
Nevertheless, compared to Béziers, the CUC had a closer relationship with the national team, from its creation (a regional team with 3 internationals, it is unusual), then by becoming the obligatory passage to be international. in the 70s.
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