After Toulon’s heavy defeat at Bordeaux-Bègles on Sunday evening (46-7), RCT coach Pierre Mignoni struggled to find the words to describe his team’s match, still in difficulty away.
RC Toulon took a beating on Sunday evening at Bordeaux-Bègles (46-7) at the end of the 12th day of Top 14, and it is starting to do a lot for its coach Pierre Mignoni. Over the last three away matches in the Top 14, the Var club has conceded at least 45 points (59 at Toulouse, 51 at Stade Français and therefore 46 at UBB) and the former scrum team finds itself a little helpless, especially since his team had a good match (at home) against Bath in the Champions Cup (45-34). The coach did not linger at the press conference, but first wanted to congratulate his opponent: “Bordeaux played a great match, we were not up to par, like in the semi-final last June,” he admitted. At the time, UBB won 39-24 at Groupama Stadium in Lyon.
Mignoni: “Toulon does not deserve this image”
Pierre Mignoni then wanted to send a message to his players: “We cannot go from a performance like that of Bath to a performance like this. I don’t know what to say, I don’t prefer to speak in the heat of the moment. When you have ambitions and you have a match like that… I’m sorry, I don’t know what to do. I reflect on the week, on the speech, on many things. I can simply say that I’m sorry, Toulon does not deserve this image. We’ll see what I decide, because it’s not acceptable. » Next Sunday, the RCT receives Perpignan, bottom red, and seems to have the cards in hand to win. But there will then be a trip to La Rochelle to start 2026.
“At home, we do the job, and as soon as we travel outside in difficulty, no one responds,” regretted Esteban Abadie. However, this does not prevent the RCT from occupying 4th place in the ranking.
