Prior to the match from Montauban, the strategies of Gauthier Maravat, new CO player: “Right here the fervor is unbelievable”

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This Friday, 21 August, Castres Olympique will journey to Montauban for a planning match, as portion of the Ibrahim Diarra trophy (19:30). Interview of the new 22-year-outdated 2nd line, from Agen.

7 have joined the ranks of the CO this period. Among the them: Gauthier Maravat, from Agen, with 1.98 m below the peak, does not go unnoticed. Thanks to his skills as a jumper, the young 22-yr-aged next row has by now won over Yannick Caballero, the head coach. Gauthier did not pick Castres by prospect, he tells us why he was seduced by the city and the supporters of CO.

What were your first impressions when you joined the CO?

It is really heading quite very well, the guys are genuinely pleasant. The recruits all have the similar sensation that becoming a member of a group that life very well is simple. There are similarities with Agen’s club in the way of existence. There are factors that alter, in conditions of rigor at work, but frankly it went genuinely perfectly.

You described the rigor, is this the distinction concerning the Pro D2 and the Leading 14?

I arrive from a club exactly where we have had two quite challenging seasons, with a excellent range of defeats, and I am joining a Prime 14 club that plays in Europe, of course, he operates a ton there, all the time. There is a notch to prevail over.

Castres and Agen are tiny cities in rugby, is that good for you too?

When I arrived in Castres, the CO was in the ultimate. I lived the moment when I noticed people at the supermarket, fans in blue and white, it’s something robust when you arrive in an unidentified city. Seeing this fervor close to the club is amazing. Then the countryside is close, a little bit like Agen.

You like this?

Oh, I like it! Large towns are not for me. I like character, hunting and fishing a little bit of everything. I appear from a modest village in close proximity to Valence d’Agen, it is the total countryside.

Do you arrive from a rugby family members?

For absolutely nothing. Neither my mom and dad nor my sister are athletic. I, I begun with judo when I was 6 years old, I stopped and I didn’t know what to do, some friends advised me “occur to rugby”, and in this article I am (You smile).

Your line supervisor, Yannick Caballero, informed us he was counting on you, does that surprise you?

No, since I like the aerial video game. I’m tall, I love to think about conquest strategies, how we can established up, it can be actually an space that I recognize. Yannick supplied me to be part of the line leaders, there are presently leaders, I am okay, later if I have a little something to say I can specific myself. Contact, I assume about it all the time, when you get screwed at the time or two times, you attempt to feel about how to counter it. Very last year there were being games in which I scratched my head, I hope it is distinct there.

Do you have a product in this discipline?

When I began there was Julien Puricelli, regarded as a vital player.

Did he have confidence in you to be among the these critical leaders?

I just arrived and the management appreciates the video game programs beautifully, to start with of all I have to assimilate every little thing. Right before talking you have to consider and for the moment I have not proved just about anything. There I assess, I seem at what is fantastic, significantly less superior, for me and I will see later, I do not know almost everything beautifully yet. Let us say that I arrive on tiptoe, I will not instruct all those who have been there for several years. And then it can be not just the rugby contact.

Specifically what is your other log in the sport?

I like to tackle, but I’m not 1 of those people who will strike the defenses, I want to participate in with balls, acquire intervals. The defense of the shot is additional the profile of Tom (Staniforth) … (laugh)

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