The Best 14 resumes its legal rights in this initial weekend of September with presently a clash amongst La Rochelle and Montpellier on Saturday (21:05). The prospect to look at five gamers, who will have to be viewed in particular for this 2022/2023 time
Antoine Hastoy (La Rochelle)
The intercontinental opening fifty percent (2 appearances), who arrived in La Rochelle from Pau in the offseason, where he put in six seasons and scored 760 points, hopes to affirm his rising star position with the reigning European winner and so to make element of the group chosen for the Mondial-2023 with each other with Romain Ntamack and Matthieu Jalibert.
At 25, the next-most effective scorer (250 details) of the league last year, at the rear of Lyonnais Léo Berdeu, was recruited to provide trustworthiness from the poles in the Maritimes, the place he replaces the iniquitous Ihaia West, who started in Toulon.
Arthur Vincent (Montpellier)
New element of the MHR, which celebrated how the initially French champion title ought to be, the 22-12 months-outdated international center (14 appearances) had a blended last training.
Victim of falling from a ruptured cruciate ligament in his remaining knee, he recovered faster than expected and scored the to start with test in the Best 14 final versus Castres, prior to sending his teammate Anthony Bouthier to sign his, all in twelve minutes. No ignition problems so significantly. “You have to maintain your toes on the ground,” he warned, keen to get a full season this time all around.
Giordano Giuseppe (Pau)
Pure item of the Ile-de-France team, overtaken by Sarcelles and Massy, the 22-yr-previous third-row player, below contract with Racing 92, carries on his adventure on bank loan in Béarn.
He played 16 league online games with Pau last year, including 14 as a starter, with 6 attempts, turning into just one of the leaders of his new club.
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Under 20 environment champion in 2018, voted ideal player of the competition, he is in the sights of the XV France mentor Fabien Galthié.
Known as up for the first time in the spring in the prolonged group of the Blues right before the match from Scotland through the 6 Nations Tournament, he is nonetheless awaiting his initial selection among the the “greats”. Why not this season?
Lucas Peyresblanques (French stadium)
After Biarritz, exactly where he had a promising year even with an personal injury (11 game titles in the Top rated 14, including nine as a starter, 5 tries), the 24-12 months-outdated hooker joined the money with cadet mate, third row Mathieu Hirigoyen, to “cross a new level”, in the words and phrases of the director typical of the French stadium, Thomas Lombard.
An viewpoint shared by Gonzalo Quesada, the Pink Soldiers mentor, who had recognized the two players between the hopes of the BO when he was mentor there: “They are continue to significantly from their prospective. And specified that they will have far more competitors listed here than in Biarritz, this it will thrust them to outdo them selves all over again, which will be interesting for them and for us ”.
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Baptiste Couilloud (Lyon)
The international scrum-fifty percent (10 appearances), who prolonged his agreement with his instruction crew this summertime until finally 2025, ended last year with two titles: the 1 received by the LOU in the European Challenge and that of best scorer in the Major 14 of the common year (11 queries).
Picked for the French staff for the summertime tour in Japan, he scored details in the next recreation. Inserted throughout the match, Couilloud gave the victory to the Blues by scoring a try from individual motion (20-15).
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In Major 14 he experienced talked about it in unique all through a match in which he had opposed his brother, participating in in Biarritz.
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