Top 14: Urios, Travers and Mignoni vote for a package in the event of massive Covid-19

While the UBB will play its second preparatory match on Saturday against Clermont in Tulle, the Girondin technician mentioned the case of Stade Français, his first opponent of the season hit by a strong Covid-19 contamination in recent days, with significant lung damage in some players. “If this first match is postponed, I can say that we will not go to the end of the championship. And if we do not go to the end of the championship, two years in a row, professional rugby is dead, reacted Urios. I don't think anybody wants to die, so we'll have to make the decisions, but I'm not competent to do it. ”

“We are getting ready for the 4th (September) and I think the Stade Français is getting ready for the 4th. After that, say that the Stade Français will not be ready because it has not played a preparation match. When they (the Parisians) have to play their second league game, they will not have any more preparation match. So it's smoking, ”he added. The Bordeaux manager estimated that “what the English decided, namely if a team is not able to field 25 players because of the Covid-19, it has 0 points, it is a good thing. You will see that there will be less (of positive cases). "

“There will be no good solution, so we have to choose the less bad. It may be that one ”

Giving a lost match to the teams which cannot play due to the Covid-19 case "is one of the solutions", estimated the president of Lyon Yann Roubert, questioned on Canal + at half-time of the preparation match against Racing 92 Friday night. “There will be no good solution, so we have to choose the less bad. It may be that, ”added the Lyon leader.

The coaches of Lyon, Pierre Mignoni, and Racing, Laurent Travers, also approved the principle of a match lost by default. “It's an option,” Mignoni said. On August 10, the Stade Français decided, faced with a health situation within the club which had "deteriorated", to immediately stop all training and to place all the players and sports personnel in isolation. Since then, his preparation match scheduled for Toulon on August 27 has been canceled.

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