Catalans Dragons gamers bought the fright of their lives as a rampaging bull interrupted their pre-match warm-up.
The Dragons had been going by means of their motions to organize for his or her hotly-anticipated Super League conflict in opposition to St Helens on the Stade Gilbert Brutus.
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Players might scarcely have imagined the chaos that may ensue from Catalans proprietor Bernard Guasch’s brilliant thought to have a pre-match parade that includes the animals to stress the standard of beef within the space.
Guasch, who can be the top of a meat processing firm within the area, organized for “three prize-winning bulls, as well as two cows from the same Gascon breed” to “perform a lap of honour during the warm-up” in accordance with a membership assertion earlier than the sport.
Guasch, who can be the top of a meat processing firm within the space, needed to stress the standard of beef within the space.
But issues rapidly bought uncontrolled.
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One bull determined it might make a run for it and break away from its handler, who was helplessly dragged alongside the bottom.
The bull then determined to make a run for the Dragons gamers who had been warming up close to the posts at one finish of the sector.
It didn’t assist that Catalans’ stars had been sporting crimson warm-up tops, both.
The Dragons gamers rapidly bolted in all instructions to get to security because the bull continued trotting round, with one participant and a coach even seen leaping into the stands.
Thankfully, the bull was recovered with no injury carried out and the sport started as deliberate.
Catalans in the end ran out 24-12 winners over the defending champions to snap their three-game winless streak.
Source: www.foxsports.com.au