At every club, the treatment room is starting to fill up nicely. Aviron Bayonnais’s, for its part, has been packed for several weeks now. And it is not emptying… According to Midi Olympique, back-rower Giovanni Habel-Küffner will miss between six and nine months of action.

The powerful number 8 has indeed ruptured an Achilles tendon, sustained during last weekend’s trip to UBB.

In that position, the Basque club are already without internationals Esteban Capilla and Alexandre Fischer, as well as the versatile Baptiste Chouzenoux.