Their manager, Ronan O’Gara, has given them free time until Wednesday night. Resumption of training on Thursday to prepare for the trip to Lyon on Sunday evening, where the European champions must not lose by conceding the offensive bonus to climb to the final phase of the Top 14.
It seems that the heroes of Marseille are legitimately taking advantage of this. After presenting the trophy to the yellow and black people on Sunday at the end of the day – more than 35,000 supporters present at the Old Port -, the players from La Rochelle continued their feasts on Monday with the president of Stade Rochelais, Vincent Merling. A party continued by some of them at the end of the day.
A video indeed shows the players between them making the rounds of the bars. Especially young scrum-half Thomas Berjon. In an establishment located by the sea, in Rivedoux-Plage, on the Ile de Ré, we see him carried in triumph on a surfboard by his teammates and brandishing a 6-litre magnum. The child of the club – he started in Puilboreau, in Charente-Maritime, before joining Stade Rochelais in 2010 – was the king of the party…
On the stories shared by many players, we also see them singing and dancing (winger Jules Favre in particular), some even allowing themselves to smoke imposing cigars.
