EACH week there’s too great a lunge. Two backwards, one forward. We build continuity, then injuries and international blocks sunder it. But at year’s end, after being spanked down in Toulouse, it just felt like time for a reset. Time to pull the handbrake and get off the merry-go-round.
In the summer of 2023, La Rochelle were 60 seconds away from winning the Champions Cup and Top 14 double. It was everything the club, the city and the project had built towards and with one defensive misread, the whole thing was torpedoed in the harbour mouth.
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