Montpellier (AFP)

Three weeks after the elimination of France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, Guilhem Guirado, his former captain (33 years, 74 selections), wants to "give himself new goals" with Montpellier.

He has committed for three years with the MHR and is preparing to start Saturday in Toulon, opening the 9th day of Top 14.

Q: Are you ready to start with your new Montpellier club against your former Toulon club?

A: "The two weeks following the elimination have been difficult to manage, so playing gives you the chance to restart the machine and set new goals - I arrived at the beginning of the week quite motivated and quite cool. with my family for ten days, I was very careful to record a lot of things for the match on Saturday, rugby is quite simple, and the systems all look a little different. Since Monday, I made the good student, I took my notebook, I noticed everything, and almost everything recorded, I learned the lessons well, I hope it will be seen this weekend. I think I'm ready to play my first game and luck is good (match in Toulon, ed.) It can take some pressure from me to play in a stadium that I know I'm not going to focus on on that, but rather focus on my match. "

Q: Is a new championship starting?

A: "This is indeed a new championship that starts: there was this first game with all these players at the World Cup, more penalized clubs than others, clubs behind their expectations, others, like Bayonne, show beautiful things, there is a second part with the entire squad, the European Cup in the middle, it's in the heart of winter that everything is played out. 13 games in a row in all competitions, ed) will decide our season and our future.There are more points to lose.

Q: What is your coach's expectation of internationals?

A: "We have a team that is quite young, with a lot of desire, but which may have missed some benchmarks at times.The experience that we can bring, with Louis (Picamoles), Yacouba (Camara) or + Fufu + (Ouedraogo) is probably a better way to manage some matches, and South Africa has been world champion because it has experienced players, and unfortunately, that's not the case. do not buy, it does not work, it comes over time ".

Interviewed at a press conference

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