Saint-Orens remains on the road of blood and gold hoping to repeat the river point of the 2021-2022 season. That is not the opinion of blood and gold.
Blood and gold are therefore similar, the word is not abused, with the outskirts of the Haut-Garonne of Saint-Orens this Sunday, March 31.
The final classification of the qualification phase sees Saint-Orens stay on the path of Fuxéens. The Haut-Garonnais has in fact finished this phase at the top of group 3. In other words, the opposition will not be a simple foil.
Let’s look ahead to the 2022-2023 season. Both teams then traveled in the same car. During the first leg in Haute-Garonne, the Ariégeois won a bitter 41-14, a little hard to swallow. In the return phase, they took their revenge with a more modest 12-6.
We can question the usefulness of these play-offs 1. It is a kind of “false round of 16”, which lead the 14 winners of this preliminary to continue in the French championship, for the play-offs 2 always played on ‘at the lawn of the highest ranked club, it will be Sunday, April 7.
Meeting in sight with the Ardèche or with the Cantal?
If we understand the mechanism correctly, in case of victory in this dam 1, USF will face the winner of the meeting between RC Bassoles-Lupiac, from Ardèche, and Châtaigneraie/Célé, located in Cantal. Only then will the quarter-finals begin, which will be played on a neutral field. The path is therefore long and strewn with traps.
But we are approaching the event and we will stay until Sunday. USF, thanks to a second qualifying phase of a very good level, is ranked 27th of all Occitanie clubs in regional 2. For lovers of numbers, Foix acquired 37 field points, 2 virtuous points for excellent player clothing, 5 mosaic points. (maximum allocation, to reward clubs that work for the development of rugby) and 3 points for the training of young referees.
Practical: the match will be played at the Gustave Plantade stadium, 1 street from the Saint-Orens-de-Gameville stadium. Kick-off at 3 pm Field referee: Arnaud Gonzalès, linesmen 1 Michel Payet and 2 Laure Gonzalès. Federal representative: Christophe Pujol.
The 2023-2024 season ticket gives free access to the stadium.