Roméo Gontinéac (Aurillac trainer):
“What reassures me is that the players under pressure reacted very well. We saw a revolt in the second period and even in the first. That reassures me because we will recover the points we lost tonight. After the management of the first one, it was very very average. These are things that had already happened to Vannes. But we grow up like that. We are a little young team. We were under pressure, we completely lost our means. Afterwards, the opponent pushes us to make a mistake, recovers four or five balls in touch, with at least half we could put them in more danger. What was also bad, at first, was the aggressiveness. We have a great team, we are going to win matches. We will lose others, but we will gain more ”
Pro D2: Aurillac bows (14-19) against Colomiers (see the live again)
Albert Valentin (Aurillac winger):
“The whole team had their heads in their socks when they entered the locker room. We have to put things into perspective and move on quickly. Colomiers came with a lot of intentions, when you don’t get lost from the kick-off, you look for yourself a bit, you wait for your colleagues to do something to remove the doubt, necessarily after you run after the score. Colomiers played simple. We have two scrums at 15 against 12 and we can’t score, it’s complicated ”
Pierre Rude (Aurillac hooker):
“Today what is missing is the first twenty minutes when we are non-existent. They put pressure on us on all impacts, piss us off on all areas of play. We do not see the light of day. They managed to score at that point and we are chasing the score until the end. He missed a good start, maybe after the game is different. Our reaction is perhaps a little late. We need to be more present in the fight, to be shaken less, to play simple rugby. We showed last week that we were capable of doing things ”
Interview by Jean-Paul Cohade
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