Philippe Saint-André (manager of Montpellier, beaten at Bordeaux-Bègles): “Well done already in Bordeaux-Bègles, they have a very good team, a very good squad and they proved it tonight. The young people gave everything, I have some who are very very young, they have learned a lot, especially in the physical dimension. They hung on, they lasted 45, 50 minutes. Five matches in 18 days is incomprehensible. We will quickly return (to Montpellier) because we are playing our season on Saturday against Bayonne. I have players who were in the 23 tonight who will be in the squad on Saturday. There were 5 pros, they gave it their all. We have a pillar that has a ruptured Achilles tendon, a young man injured his knee, another in the shoulder in the glove box. I had 20 or 21 injured, I would have 23 or 24 … I prefer not to say anything otherwise I will get angry. We will do everything to stay in the Top 14 after a very good campaign in the European Cup. I sounded the alarm bells five or six weeks ago that there would be no fairness in this Top 14 end of the season and there is no fairness. Period.”
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