2023-05-18 08:09:00
Rugby League in Ille-sur-Têt (Pyrénées-Orientales) is a serious story. Devil. It must be said that the large town of Roussillon is also the native village of Jean Galia (1905-1949), son of the mayor and man who defected from rugby union through whom rugby league entered France in the 1930s. the past. The future will be written on Sunday May 21, 2023 on the lawn of the Pamiers stadium in Ariège against the Aveyron team of Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
“The hierarchy of the season is respected”, rejoices Jean-Louis Ligat, co-president of the Ille XIII club, since we, first in the regular phase, meet the second! A team already beaten twice this year. “But we are not going to stop there, in a match, everyone can beat everyone,” he tempers even if the dream is within reach of dropping. Only downside, the place of the final. Originally, the match was planned to take place in Pia, a few kilometers from Ille-sur-Têt, on a day when the other French Championship finals are taking place. “Someone in Villefranche must have managed to speak louder than us, it’s a shame”, regrets Jean-Louis Ligat, adding that when, another year for a National final, it was necessary to go play in the final against Lescure , the club had moved to Toulouse, to Réalmont, without complaining. “It was as if we had played outside. »
A rise in Elite 1 raises the question of budget
So for this Sunday, we had to organize ourselves, find a bus for the players, it was not planned, try to find one for the supporters as well, even if “many will play the game and come by car” . Pamiers is not so far after all, two and a half hours of driving are nothing to experience a historic day. And after ? Afterwards, it is the rise in Elite 1, the equivalent of the first division. But by Jean-Louis Ligat’s own admission, there is a long way to go. “It’s mainly a question of budget, I don’t want to send my youngsters to the ditch every weekend! We need reinforcements. “A role played this year by another child of the village, the pillar Thibaut Margalet, passed by the Catalan XIII but also the Dragons, the big club of Perpignan which evolves in the European Super League. But also scrum half Rémi Marginet who made his career in two big Elite 1 clubs, Palau and Lézignan.
Between two bus reservations, the leaders of Ille XIII sounded out the sponsors: “We are supported by the merchants of Ille, fortunately, but there, if we want the budget of the Elite 1 to have three or four players from the caliber of Thibaut and Rémy in addition, it is also necessary to change division on this level. And in the meantime, there is a final to be won. It will be Sunday in Pamiers.
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