While it is undeniable that the Castres have shown indiscipline this season, they suffer as a bonus an image of a bad student on the subject. Who doesn’t always aim the whistle the right way. New event, this Saturday afternoon (15:00), when it’s time to welcome the reigning champion Montpellier.
On Castres’s part, the phrase “one train can hide another” becomes “one problem can hide another”. Big disadvantage of this start of the season for the “biancoblu”: indiscipline. What regularly leaves the Tarnais, who receive Montpellier this afternoon (15:00) uneasy, uneasy. “We must continue to work to no longer have this penalty quota that damages us in every game, both by making us chase the goal and by making us tremble until the end,” regrets the coach of the three quarterbacks David Darricarrere.
However, behind this obvious flaw, there is also an underlying problem. The image that adheres to the CO’s skin, that of a team that is as undisciplined as possible. If brilliant shots like in Bordeaux (20 penalties), they support this image as much as a nuclear power plant supplies the electricity grid, even the French runner-up is able to maintain a good line. “With the people and the refereeing body we have this portrait of undisciplined while against Brive we commit eight faults, underlines the Landais. Against Perpignan we are penalized twelve times, Usap, thirteen. Of course we make mistakes, but looking at the stats, in most games, we stay within the standards of the top 14 teams.
Exchanges with the referees
Castres is still the most sanctioned club in the league. And for the former owner the image of him can turn the whistle even in situations of indecision: “Let’s be clear, we are arbitrators like everyone else. But when it’s 50-50, it’s rarely in our favor. In Perpignan we were penalized for offside which was anything but sensational… ”It is also not surprising that Castres has shown deficiencies in respecting the offside line since the beginning of the season, leading the referees to increase vigilance and severity.
The “whites and blues” also pay for their tendency to concatenate fouls, for example in one period (10 in the first act at Aimé-Giral, 12 in the second at Chaban). They therefore work in this direction, already during training, and also outside. During discussions with officials. “At the beginning of the week, our video analysts spend a lot of time on the video feedback with the referee that we had the previous weekend, then, in the middle of the week, with what we will have. I think we are one of the clubs that exchange the most with referees, “said Darricarrère, who insists on” improving “this negative view of Castres. But repairing an image takes time. So it will take more than a disciplined match to getting there.
