After having made an interesting sporting comeback in content and vital in accounting terms by suddenly leaving the red zone of the ranking, the Héraultais were a shadow of themselves, Saturday afternoon in Mayol to open this nineteenth day.
Under a summer sun, they did not shine, far from it, scoring a single try on the hour mark by their third line center Sam Simmonds, the same Simmonds being denied a double nine minutes later because of a dangerous gesture from Ben Lam on Charles Ollivon (69th). Double penalty since the Hérault winger was given a yellow card.
19 points for Jaminet
“We stayed on vacation,” Geoffrey Doumayrou, the center of this transparent MHR, cursed in front of the Canal + cameras. We have been far too vague. We have not put in the necessary application and commitment. » It’s the least he could regret. Because his team bordered on the ridiculous at the end of the match, conceding a total of eight tries, including two in the last five minutes, proof that this MHR had really given up on the matter in a Mayol stadium which did not hesitate to encourage its team.
Thanks to this improved victory in a particularly tough and indecisive Top 14, Toulon therefore moved up from eighth to third place in one fell swoop. This bonus, the Varois won it in the 37th minute and a try from Gabin Villière, which says a lot about the investment of the Hérault defense… The rest was a long ordeal for these visitors reduced to a state training stakes. With Melvyn Jaminet’s 19 points, Montpellier leaves Mayol with a big bag of points. For his return to Toulon in the shoes of the Hérault manager, Bernard Laporte undoubtedly expected less humiliating.
