RNCA get the result

Monday, January 25, 2010
By winning in Monteux on Sunday (15-10), Nice won their second consecutive away game and have consolidated their 2nd place in Pool 3 behind Beziers. They can no longer be caught and can even hope to finish the pool phase in first place: in the event that Beziers lose their last home game against Chateaurenard without defensive bonus and RNCA wins with an attacking bonus against St. Etienne. We shall know the outcome on Sunday, February 14th when St Etienne visit the Stade des Arboras. Manu Boutet and Will Johnson will be relying on the return of Ross Beattie, Grant Hill, Alexander Mezencev, Damien Delmonte, Billy Ngawini, Rudi Keil, Adrian Malavard and Lome Fa''atau.
Despite delivering a very solid game Monteux made too many mistakes and Nice were able to demonstrate their skills and efficiency through the boot of Mark MacHugh who kicked four penalty goals from four before the scrum-half Greg Chambon successfully converted a drop goal at the end of the match. A match dominated and a game mastered and won.

Monteux-Nice : 10-15 (5-9)
For Nice : 4 penalities (1st, 18th, 35th, 54th ) MacHugh 1 drop goal (78th) Chambon.
For Monteux : 2 tries, (10th) Lombartex, (51st) Dahbi.
Yellow Cards: El Habnouni (10th) et Merquey (79th) for Monteux
The Nice team: MacHugh – Roman, Kacharava, Mège (Benstaali, 60th), Dramé – (o) Lapierre (Caminati, 49th), (m) Chambon – Moxham (Orméa, 65th), Sainte-Croix (cap), J.Malavard (Ducourtieux, 60th) – Derrstroff (Herrera, 51st), Boukanoucha – Traversa (Langlade, 45th), Feldis (MacKie, 51st), Guarese (Canizares, 51st).