Philippe Saint-André (sporting director of the MHR, beaten in the dying seconds at home by Brive, 26-27): “The players did not meet our expectations. Brive did not steal his victory. We are a team that doubts a lot and today we thwarted. Fortunately we have a great Bouthier who holds the house for 80 minutes but that was not enough. The situation means that we can no longer qualify, or even go down. We just hope that we will want to play a good match against La Rochelle next week. We no longer have to doubt, we no longer have any pressure, except to play rugby well, to fight, to want to move forward. Today it is very difficult, complex to explain this defeat.