Baptiste Serin, leader of the Toulon Rugby Club, “a player who stands out from the crowd”

"Because it's unthinkable to imagine the future without our Baptiste Serin! I'll tweet every day until our conductor's contract is extended." The 800 or so people who followed Hugo Greugny on X had few surprises when they turned on their phones in the morning. For months, this fervent supporter of the Rugby Club Toulonnais (RCT) posted the same message over and over again, pleading for a renewal of the scrum-half's contract, which expires in 2026. If Hugo Greugny stopped on May 27, the ^148th day of his venture, it's simply because he left the social network.

Around the same time, Baptiste Serin, 31, stated that he was "heading towards [a] one-year extension with RTC" . The native of La Teste-de-Buch (Gironde) wants to "win something in Toulon" . A goal he can get closer to on Saturday, June 21. At 9:05 p.m., the Varois will challenge Union Bordeaux-Bègles (UBB) – where Serin made his senior debut before joining the Rade in 2019 – in Décines-Charpieu (Rhône), with a place in the Top 14 final at stake.

A starter as usual, Baptiste Serin will take advantage of this to play his ^250th professional club match, half of which will be at Toulon, where he is adored. "He's the darling of the public ," confirms former pillar Florian Fresia, a resident of RCT between 2012 and 2023. Baptiste is very friendly, always in contact with the supporters." They love him all the more because he led RTC to the last four of the French championship for the first time since 2017.

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