Transition: Tietie Tuimauga leaves CA Brive and joins Montauban as a medical clown

In sports like rugby, you can play for several clubs in the same season. You have to show great adaptability because you have to integrate quickly into your new team. It’s the beginning of a new experience for Tietie Tuimauga.

Long term injuries bring their share of medical clowns and provide opportunities for players who can sometimes turn those short contracts into much longer contracts. At a time when clubs play under pressure of results, you also have to perform very quickly.

CA Brive terminates Tietie Tuimauga’s medical joker contract who joins Montauban in the aftermath.

Tietie Tuimauga started the season with Wellington, where he won the New Zealand Championship. He then traveled to join France and Brive as medical joker for Luka Jabaridze, who tore his cruciate ligament during the match in Perpignan. After a few weeks of waiting, Tuimauga makes its CAB debut in the Challenge Cup. In just over 4 months, The column will play 6 matches with CABmainly in the Challenge Cup (3 spells in 4 matches played), with one stint notably in Bayonne’s Best 14 matches.

If his Joker’s contract in Brive expires, He started another one by joining Montauban to replace Nicolás Solveira until the end of the season. In Sapiac, he joined a club with many ex-Brivistes and who is fighting to keep him in Pro D2.

Find all information in our CA Brive Rugby transfer table for the 2023/2024 season.