Paris (AFP)
Stade Français, last in the Top 14 and who sacked his coach Heyneke Meyer Tuesday, did not take advantage of the parenthesis of the European Challenge to raise his head, largely beaten 27-11 by Brive Friday opening of the competition.
For the first match of the duo of interim coaches Laurent Sempere - Julien Arias, expenses retired from the fields and therefore without management experience, the Parisians have never led against the Corréziens, one of their competitors for maintaining the league. They will also go to Brive for a game not to lose, December 1, under penalty of seeing the Pro D2 come closer.
Sempere and Arias had lined up a team to spare their managers for the fear game, and there was no miracle in a squad deserted by confidence. The few hundred spectators present at Jean-Bouin accompanied the final whistle of a bronca after a very sad evening.
Otherwise more ambitious in a competition than he has ever won, RC Toulon started well by winning 20-13 in Bayonne.
Unlike SU Agen, also more concerned about his survival in the league and already out of the race after a big home defeat (10-31) against Edinburgh.
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