Four places. This is the jump made by Colomiers rugby in the ranking of the best Pro D2 training centers. Passed from 9th to 5th place, the columérine structure was “rewarded” at the end of an evaluation which takes into account sporting criteria (playing time in the first team, number of professional contracts signed and national selections), academic (success rate and failure at school) and structural (quality of infrastructure, medical follow-up, etc.). “It’s very satisfying,” says director Philippe Filiatre, recalling in passing the peculiarities of the Colomiers training center. “We are a” small “center with about twenty players against thirty for some other clubs so if we take the ratio of young people launched compared to the number of young people that the center includes, it is very encouraging,” greets the manager . “Another important point, our structure is attached to the association and not to the professional fringe of our club,” he says about an element that makes the difference when we know that the majority of other training centers are directly linked to the SASP of the Top 14 and Pro D2 teams.
Make way for young people
This columerine peculiarity therefore does not prevent the formation from running at full speed. The examples of young people recently aligned in the first team by the duo Berneau-Sarraute attest to this. Simon Delas, Yann Peysson, Thomas Larregain… are just some of the names that are added to the long list of players launched into the deep end. “All these young people took part in the club’s rise in the rankings and it goes further since the players continue to bring you points even when they have left the club,” explains Philippe Filiatre. It instinctively comes to mind the figures of the international back Thomas Ramos or that of the hooker Gaëtan Barlot who makes the happiness of Castres today without forgetting the center of the UBB Yoram Moefana past very close to the feat at Twickenham in the jersey of the Blues last November and all indirectly continue to wear very high the colors of the club with the dove sometimes even beyond the borders of France.
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