Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby

Tarbes
Full name Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby
Founded 2000 (2000)
Location Tarbes, France
Ground(s) Stade Maurice Trélut (Capacity: 16,400)
President Jean-Pierre Davant
Coach(es) Pierre-Henry Broncan
Nicolas Nadau
League(s) Fédérale 1
2015–16 15th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.tpr65.com

Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby is a French rugby union team that currently takes part in Fédérale 1, the third, semi-professional level of the country's league system.

They were founded in August 2000 as a result of a merger between Stadoceste Tarbais and the senior side of Cercle Amical Lannemezanais. They play in red and white. They are based in Tarbes, the capital of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in Occitania, and play at the Stade Maurice Trélut.

History

Several clubs from the Bigorre region have been part of the history of rugby union in France, but none of them was able to keep up with the times when professionalism appeared. Stadoceste Tarbais, the big regional gun, a two-time French champion, was struggling in the amateur leagues, like FC Lourdes (8 times French champion) and Stade Bagnérais. However, at the end of the 1999-2000 season, CA Lannemezan reached Pro D2 for the first time ever. But the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, which operates the French professional leagues, blocked the promotion, fearing that a club in a town of 6 000-odd inhabitants would never survive as a professional outfit. Stadoceste Tarbais, which had just been promoted to the 4th division (Fédérale 2), made CA Lannemezan an offer to join forces in order to build a strong viable club and reach Top 14 in the near future. Tarbes and Lannemezan are 35 km apart. The plan was backed by the local government of Hautes-Pyrénées, which would only support one top level club in the area. FC Lourdes and Stade Bagnérais were offered to join but rejected the offer as they feared that they would lose their identity in a bigger club which, in all likelihood, would play in the capital of the department, Tarbes. The board of CA Lannemezan originally rejected the merger 73%–27%, but the club president managed to get it done.

In August 2000, the new club LT65 (Lannemezan Tarbes Hautes-Pyrénées) took off as a merger of Stadoceste Tarbais and CA Lannemezan, and took the place of Lannemezan in Pro D2. Very soon though, dissensions appeared inside the club: all games were played in Tarbes, while Lannemezan became « dead on matchdays » (according to the CAL president), professional and semi-professional players were mixed, leading to frictions inside the squad etc. Soon, the club was renamed Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby, severing the symbolic link with Lannemezan. In 2003, some players and board members left and decided to relaunch the senior team in their lifelong club which had kept its youth teams. By 2005, Lannemezan was back in Fédérale 1 and hoping to climb back to Pro D2, with a view to juicy derbies against TPR; their ambitions were realized in 2009, when they won the Fédérale 1 crown and earned promotion to Pro D2. TPR has not been able to establish itself as a candidate for promotion to Top 14 so far.

Honours

Current standings

2015–16 Rugby Pro D2 Table
Club Played Won Drawn Lost Points For Points Against Points Diff Try Bonus Losing Bonus Points
1 Lyon 3025 0 5971493 +478 134117
2 Bayonne 3019110658602 +56 4486
3 Aurillac 3018012724613 +111 6381
4 Mont De Marsan 3017 1 12655611 +44 5378
5 Colomiers 3016 3 11629590 +39 4 478
6 Béziers 3017 1 12745662 +83 4377
7 Perpignan 3015114676615 +61 5673
8 Biarritz 3014 0 16674656 +18 3564
9 Bourgoin3012018595642 −47 5 962
10 Albi 3013515591643 −52 2462
11 Narbonne 3013 0 17602653 –51 2660
12 Montauban 3012018570624 -541958
13 Tarbes 3013 0 17543630 –87 0953
14 Carcassonne 3011019484741 −257 0549
15 Dax 3010119538713 −175 1548
16 Provence Rugby 3010 0 20549716 −167 1546
Green background (row 1) Champions automatically promoted to Top 14.
Yellow background denotes winner of the promotion play-offs.
Blue background denotes teams that qualify for the promotion play-offs.
Red background denotes relegation to Fédérale 1.

Note: When two teams have the same points total, position is calculated by results between teams before points difference.
Note: Tarbes had 8 points deducted and were automatically relegated at the end of the season.

Current squad

2015-16 Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player Position Union
Theo Beziat Hooker France France
Romain Casals Hooker France France
Mathieu Giudicelli Hooker France France
Agustin Costa Repetto Prop Argentina Argentina
Hans Grobler Prop South Africa South Africa
Kakhaber Koberidze Prop Georgia (country) Georgia
Jermonimo Negroto Prop Argentina Argentina
Jerome Schuster Prop France France
Tudor Stroe Prop France France
Marius Antonescu Lock Romania Romania
Russlan Boukerou Lock France France
Addison Lockley Lock England England
Sione Timani Lock Tonga Tonga
Alexis Armary Flanker France France
Benjamin Collet Flanker France France
Filipe Manu Flanker New Zealand New Zealand
Paul Sajous Flanker France France
Nicolas Garrault Number 8 France France
Paul Tuaimalo Number 8 New Zealand New Zealand
Player Position Union
Gilen Queheille Scrum-half France France
Luix Roussarie Scrum-half France France
Nicolas Vergallo Scrum-half Argentina Argentina
Mathieu Berbizier Fly-half France France
Nicolas Laharrague Fly-half France France
Sebastian Poet Fly-half Argentina Argentina
Riaan Smit Fly-half South Africa South Africa
Jerome Cabanne Centre France France
Andrea Cocagi Centre Fiji Fiji
Jean-Baptiste Lamotte Centre France France
Julien Lastisneres Palacin Centre France France
Laurent Tranier Centre France France
Maxime Veau Centre France France
Johan Demai-Hamecher Wing France France
Adrien Domec Wing France France
Morgan Rubio Wing France France
Sionasa Vunisa Wing Fiji Fiji
Geoffrey Cros Fullback France France
Thomas Poitrenaud Fullback France France

Notable former players

See also

References

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