After Stade Toulousain's victory over Stade Rochelais (23-16) on Saturday evening, the manager of the reigning French and European champions settled a few scores with the encrypted channel.
Apparently, he did not digest the analyzes of the Canal + consultants.
“
We needed to win.
We look for motivations everywhere, but it's true that the journalists in your area have really been looking for all your consultants to try to find ''the Toulouse tunnel'', that we wouldn't get out of it, that it would be very complicated
, “grit Ugo Mola at the microphone of … Canal +.
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Schedule and Top 14 results
Ranking Top 14
Two days before the end of the regular season, Stade Toulousain, 6th in the Top 14 ranking, must travel to Brive and receive Biarritz, already relegated to Pro D2.
“
We are not qualified.
But there are two games left, with a formidable trip to Brive and a reception from Biarritz.
We are not dead tonight.
We will be satisfied with beating a team in good shape, even very good shape, then we will switch to the European Cup
(quarter-final in Dublin against Munster on Saturday, editor
's note) hoping that the environment will be a little better for us positive than yours for once…
”
Before finally recognizing that the situation of his team was tense and that a defeat would have mortgaged the chances of qualification.
"Certainly losing would have put us in a situation where our fate was no longer in our hands."