There is the present moment tasted against Hyères. And the hope that once again crossed the minds of the supporters in the frozen bays of the Mager stadium. Saturday evening, the new Savoyard wind which swept away the Var, with a 32-10 victory against Hyères Carqueiranne, and the offensive bonus at stake, born of five tries, chased away the clouds of frustration which were piling up above the heads of players, staff and managers in the yellow and black camp. The test cashed in stoppage time doing nothing, temporarily at least, to darken the picture at the time of closing the parenthesis of this 20th day.
There are now six matches left in the regular phase and as scrum-half Thibaut Dufau, author of the fourth Savoyard try, repeated, the overall and final result of the SOC also depends on those of the others. But as candidates for sixth place, who are still ahead of Chambéry in the standings, do not seem to want to stand out from the crowd, Chambéry’s chances have picked up again.
“We have been inconstant since the start of the year, we cannot project ourselves too much”
Will the Savoyard mountain give birth to a mouse, as after the six tries and the five points brought back on January 29 from Cognac for the 17th day of National, where the SOC was only within reach of a success of his qualifying Top 6 ambitions and had suffered two setbacks following at home against Blagnac (27-28), and at the penultimate Rennes (31-22) who had put the ambition of men in the cellar of Cyril Villain to extend the season beyond April 30 at home (against the 2nd, the VRDR). “We have a team with which we cannot project ourselves, we have one or two good games and then we have been losing since the start of the season, so let’s put content in our games above all like tonight, let’s take them one after the other. the others as a final, and we will see what will happen”, said Juan-Pablo Orlandi afterwards.
One thing is certain, the calendar that awaits Jean-Baptiste Grenod and his teammates, on paper, will no longer be easy, with trips scheduled to direct competitors in Narbonne, Bourgoin (7th) and Albi (4th), and the reception of Nice (8th) and a first knockout match which could quickly “cool” the enthusiasm on the side of the friendship park in Narbonne next Saturday (6:30 p.m.). But Chambéry won where we didn’t expect it too, at the VRDR and in Nice. And the other source of life is beyond the pleasure of winning revived on Saturday, the collective fluidity before three-quarters reviewed and corrected in the Chambéry movement game, which knew how to overwhelm a Hyéroise opposition having been able to appear very quickly resigned, but in fact, according to his staff, just speeded up by Chambéry. Who has finally let go, and can draw from it this feeling that nothing is yet completely folded.
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More breakage at the SOC
The young center Bastien Reymond, author of a successful performance so far, and who replaced almost at short notice the holder announced Aviata Silago, in difficulty with a quadriceps, left his teammates at the hour of play touched at the level of the ‘shoulder. And his teammate in the third row, Pierre-Nicolas Dance joined him on the sidelines ten minutes later, limping low and injured in the ankle, he who had just spent two months in the infirmary for a fractured finger of the hand. straddling 2022-2023. For four important members of the Savoyard workforce, Witz, Cilliers, Bertrand and Deschaux, the season is already over, let’s remember.
