Rugby Union: RC Sète once again victim of a stroke of fate

L’entraîneur Éric Piazza a été victime d’un accident domestique. MIDI LIBRE – Jérôme Belluire

Le club n’est pas au mieux au moment de recevoir le leader Corbières XV, ce dimanche 12 janvier à 15 h.

« Le mauvais sort a encore frappé le club… »Jean-Luc Fabre, president of RC Sète, hoped to start the new year in a different way. But he will have to do without one of his two coaches, Éric Piazza, who was the victim of a domestic accident that led him to the burns unit in Montpellier. “The whole club is shocked, we are all behind him.”

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Reshuffle

A terrible piece of news that, all things considered, comes on top of the absences of Irvin Petroff (cruciate ligaments, season over), Thomas Labroue (fractured foot, two months) and Loïc Zaragoza (shoulder, two months). Under these conditions, a reshuffle was necessary and Anthony Estruch became head coach, assisted by Renaud Droitecour who also remains a player and who left the captaincy to Jean-Raphaël Alfaroli.

With Thomas Gaye leaving for Pézenas, the only good news is the return of Mouss Amakrane. This will be necessary to face the undisputed leader, Corbières XV, this Sunday at the Georges-Bayrou stadium (3 p.m.). “We have to prepare as best we can for the arrival of this team that is rolling over everyone this season” , continues Jean-Luc Fabre. “I particularly fear this match. But I also feel that the players are keen to react against fate. We will see, we know in any case that the mission will necessarily be difficult. Compared to last year, we are without half of the forward pack… “

Times are particularly tough and, in this context, the president has decided to rest the group during the break. “It was necessary, because we are playing with a maximum of 25 players in the first team. Our objective, for this second part of the season, therefore remains to stay up, given the difficult matches that await us and our many absentees.”

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