"It's the most accomplished match"

The players offered a very big game.

"A nice game that they realized. We tried to prepare them better. After, you have to know how to put the ingredients. I think that, in a rugby match, and that they understood it, you have to invest yourself. And that's what we missed 15 days ago. The investment was very good all week on the quality of work done, after a week of rest. I especially believe that the investment was on the ground from the first to the last minute, with a lot of commitment, a lot of aggressiveness, a big desire to put volume of play, to have fun, to play together, to put forward the collective. Of course, there are individualities that emerge, but all that has been successful has been through collective initiatives. I hope tonight they understood a lot. We will have to put the cover back next Friday in conditions that will be different. "

With this broad victory, you send a message?

"We send a message, especially to the next teams coming to our place. Until now, even if we chained victories at home, it was not always very accomplished, it has always been in pain. Today, actually, it's the most accomplished match. We can only congratulate them. We put a big dose of commitment, a big dose of precision. I think they took a lot of fun in the field, they also gave a lot, it's the most important. We had spent a week of rest ... We asked them to forget a little rugby, for us it's hard to get away from it. We were very upset about the performance in Perpignan. They showed that it was a group capable of reacting. But it must not be that of the reaction. We need to be able to put the same amount of aggression, the same quality of weekend at the weekend, with, in front, teams that are there to prevent us from playing rugby. Tonight, in front, they did not let go. They put a lot of aggression, they take a red card, 2, 3 times, we end up in the goal, we take aggression after the tests. Tonight, it's mostly us, who put the necessary ingredients to facilitate the match and have the rendering that we could have. "

One of the satisfactions of the evening is it not to have had a hole in the air during the match?

"What we have been missing since the beginning of the season is consistency. We won in Bayonne, but we took 20 points in 15 minutes. In Perpignan, we are in the game at half-time, but in 10 minutes, the match switches completely. Here, even when we won with the offensive bonus, we always had moments a little complicated. Tonight, even if we take 3 tries ... There may have been a little relaxation late in the game. But I think it's the most accomplished game of the game, from first to last minute. We have to use that to continue working and then continue on that path. "

Are there any negatives in this defeat?

"I'm a defense coach and we take three tries, so ... it's not good for statistics. I think in the first half, we're in the game. Nevertheless, they are given points fairly easily. One commits faults in defense, whereas there is no place. They go for a penalty and they score a try, they take two penalties. These are things where you can always improve. We also lose some balls offensively. Of course, there have been so many initiatives that there is inevitably waste. But I think we can also do better by taking care of some small details. We are not going to jump to the ceiling. We did not become the worst losers in Perpignan. We are not world champions by putting 60 points in Colomiers. Since the beginning of the championship, the big teams are in difficulties outside and we know that it will be very complicated next week in Aurillac. "

There have been many contract extensions in recent days. Did this release some?

"It's true that it had a little impact on everyone's heads, especially young people. Because at some point, with all the solicitations they could have, it necessarily leaves a little head of rugby. Today, in their minds, it's much more peaceful. Today, all these young people who, since the beginning of the season, brings us satisfaction, it has been a big satisfaction. I will not quote them one after the other. But there was not only them, because all the squad made a quality match, but especially young people. And then, offensively, it's always a pleasure to see the wingers score. In football, it is often said that it is interesting when it is the attackers who score, which we missed perhaps a little since the beginning of the season. We scorait a lot, but not necessarily on situations of imbalance that we had created. Today, we managed to create them and to make them concrete. It's also a good sign of confidence for our wingers. "

Even if it was believed that Lucas Dupont would not score...

"Lucas, he never lets anything go until the last minute. In addition, we end with a nice test, concretized by Lucas. It is the just reward for his work and everyone's work. "