Scrum half Gaëtan Pichon (Massy), 2nd line Levi Douglas (Grenoble) and winger Sakiusa Bureitakiyaca (Nice) sign in Carcassonne.
To govern is to foresee. And in this ruthless environment of professionalism, it is also anticipating. The 2022-2023 season is not yet over, the positions in the standings far from being fixed as the recruiting sergeants of all formations are already actively preparing for next season.
The arms race is well underway. And it is no different for the US Carcassonne. If the movements of the players already feed the section transfers quite a lot, with in particular on the departure side, those of the scrum-half Samuel Marques for Béziers and the versatile light cavalry player Martin Dulon for Colomiers, the club announces this afternoon three arrivals.
For the first, the scrum half Gaëtan Pichon (24 years old, 1 m 85, 88 kg), it is rather a return to the fold. Wearer of the Carcassonne jersey for two seasons (2020-2022), the USAP-trained player had not seen his contract renewed following a serious knee injury. USC is fully reassured about its physical abilities: it has brilliantly defended, since the beginning of the exercise, the colors of RC Massy Essonne (seventeen match sheets including ten as a holder, 7 tries and a penalty scored ).
The second reinforcement is none other than Levi Douglas (27 years old, 1 m 93, 119 kg). Passed by Bath, the Wasps or even Toulon, he currently plays in the 2nd line within the workforce of FC Grenoble. Arrived in Isère last season, if the English played rather a lot during the last exercise (18 matches, 17 tenures, 1 try), he is a little less used this season (9 match sheets, 3 tenures).
Finally, a winger completes the list. Current Stade Niçois player, the Fijian Sakiusa Bureitakiyaca (31 years old, 1m93, 95kg) knows the Pro D2 well after passing through Dax (2014-2018) and Soyaux-Angoulême (2018-202).
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