Famuina's tears, Huget's "standing" farewells...: the secrets of the Le Stade (Toulousain) series by its director

"We must not complain": the words of Emile Ntamack to Romain after his jaw fracture

“This is the first accident I have witnessed.

And the first big injury of his career.

We follow him to see how he lives this two-month stoppage, how he recovers from a jaw injury.

It allows us to process family history as well.

Émile Ntamack has this role of protective father, quite nice I think.

He accompanies him to the dentist, gives him advice with all his experience as a top athlete.

It’s a very interesting transmission relationship.”

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"The only thing I tell myself is 'you can't leave the image of the guy who ends his career on a stretcher'", Yoann Huget

“Yoann Huget is injured a few meters from me.

I am at the heart of the thing and you immediately feel that it is a very hard and very significant moment for the team.

Yoann had revealed to the group that he was stopping at the end of the season.

Because the pain is too great, because he constantly suffers from the Achilles tendon.

He's fed up with being in pain, he wants his body to finally leave him alone.

But, in the meantime, he is in the thick of things, scoring a lot of tries.

And there, he was seriously injured against Racing a few weeks before the final stages.

In an empty stadium (

).

Everyone immediately felt the dramatic side.

On the edge of the field, Ugo Mola repeats that he blames himself.

For the record, the week before, Yoann Huget suffered a small concussion.

All the tests declared him fit to play, but the body probably remembers the shock.

And Ugo immediately regrets having aligned him that day.

Afterwards, it's complicated when a player shows every day in training that he wants to play, that it's these last matches, that he repeats that he's ready, that he's fine... But Ugo is very angry with himself for having listened to the doctor and not having followed his instincts.

And there Yoann refuses the stretcher.

He knows it's his last game and he wants to come out on his feet.

So he waits a moment to get up.

He suffered to come out standing.

But those guys so hard on evil… He didn't want his last picture to be a stretcher.

It is a moment of intense emotion.

We even felt it in the team opposite.

Everyone understood what was going on."

"I don't know if I could endure another winter", the tears of colossus Charles Famuina

“Charlie had a complicated 2021-2022 season.

He is a manager and the staff rely on him a lot.

There is an interview with the coaches which is hard to live with.

And hard to film even, I admit.

It's not going well for him, Ugo criticizes him for never having played so badly in his life when we expect him to bring a lot in this period of doubles.

Because he's an important executive, a former All Black, an experienced 34-year-old guy, an essential part of the scrum.

And we tell him he's not up to it.

His pride is touched.

He blames himself for not responding.

And when he confides in front of the camera, he remembers this extremely painful period for him and he cracks.

At this time, he thinks he will not return for another season.

Well, finally he left and it

"We're dying slowly", "not up to the jersey", "I don't want any more cheaters": rififi in episode 4

“I would first like to say that I have always had the doors open.

It was said a lot, when the film was released, that it was because Toulouse won everything and that he gargled about it.

But last season, when things were going much worse, I had exactly the same access.

I have never been forbidden anything.

The staff, the players did not censor anything.

For the team, this difficult period has not changed anything compared to me.

It was more me who was embarrassed when it yells, when players are shaken during individual interviews.

You feel it when you turn that it's not going well.

But, for them, the camera was never a concern.

In two and a half years of filming, it's happened twice that a player or a staff member didn't really want the camera.

But it's a feeling.

It turns out, if I had forced them, they would have let me stay.

Good, it was stories of contract to be renegotiated, so a little ''touchy''.

I understand that it may bother the player or the staff…”