It is a big gap that hurts, and whose pink soldiers, rigid and crumbly at the same time, are really not sure to get up. Saturday March 2, 2024, the Stade Français dominated Pau and shared the head of the top 14 ranking after 17 days. A year later, it was in a red lantern, tied with the promoted Vannes, that the Parisian club is preparing to receive La Rochelle at the Jean-Bouin stadium this Saturday, March 1, 2025 (2:30 p.m.) during the 18th day.
How do you go from a flamboyant season, completed on a semi-final lost on the wire (22-20) against Bordeaux-Bègles on June 22, to this sad tumble to the donkey cap and this distraught fight to avoid pro relegation D 2, eight months later?