A player doing that — it was interesting, the reaction. La Rochelle could barely string a pass together for the first hour — but rediscovered something that looked, in the right light, like attacking mojo, in the final quarter, scoring twice and being held-up over the tryline twice more to head back to the Atlantic coast with a losing bonus.
We're too undisciplined. The game starts in the first minute! I hope so. It's completely crazy to say that today, but with the right player selection Despite their current malaise, the Rochelais remain two points off the play-off places, and five points adrift of fourth-placed Bayonne, who host Clermont on Sunday.
But their fall-off has been rapid. They have picked up only six league points in , four of those on January 4 in a narrow victory over a Toulouse squad so young some of them had barely started shaving, and only 16 in the past 11 games.
But both clubs had been in full-on crisis mode this week. Unlike Stade, La Rochelle chose not to change coaches mid-season. For now, at least. Two late tries were also not enough for third-place Toulon, as they lost at Lyon, a result that saw the home side climb provisionally into the top six. Two sides with the play-offs very much in sight meet on Sunday, as Bayonne put their unbeaten home record on the line against a Clermont side looking to break a three-match losing streak.
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