I thought i've seen one or two punches thrown by Rizzo though... Anyways, France's got a good 10 on wich to build for the wolrd cup. I really like the way plisson defended, at one point in the game, he was the leader for tackles made. Plisson and Trinh-Duc is pretty good!
Absolutly right Matt. Just take a look at Toulouse's roster when they won the HCup (4 times). They always have a solid base of french players, internationals most of the time. And just look at Toulon's lost in term of young french players: Maestri and Fickou (now with Toulouse), Bruni (perpignan bound), Gunther (going probably to Lyon for more playing time), Palisson (Castres) just to name a few (still nonetheless)
Toulouse can almost align an all-french line-up and be successful (montès, tolofua, loosehead, maestri, millo-chlusky, nyanga, Dusautoir, picamoles, doussain, beauxis, fritz, fickou, Médard, huget, poitrenaud,...only a loosehead missing, because Guillamon isn't ready yet and mostly plays tighthead) in fact, it happens quite often. Can Toulon do that?
What I mean Eddie-g is that rugby will become bigger and bigger, attracting even more foreign star players to big french powehouses and young french players won't get they're chance. By ''bad thingswill happen to french rugby'' I meant ''bad things will happen to the French national rugby level
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parfaitement daccord Oliver
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Are my eyes abused or do we see Tikoirotuma sneakily throwing the ball on Gopperth on the ground after his try?
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I was just thinking that..
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I thought i've seen one or two punches thrown by Rizzo though... Anyways, France's got a good 10 on wich to build for the wolrd cup. I really like the way plisson defended, at one point in the game, he was the leader for tackles made. Plisson and Trinh-Duc is pretty good!
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Toulon chairman Mourad Boudjellal on building the champion club
Absolutly right Matt. Just take a look at Toulouse's roster when they won the HCup (4 times). They always have a solid base of french players, internationals most of the time. And just look at Toulon's lost in term of young french players: Maestri and Fickou (now with Toulouse), Bruni (perpignan bound), Gunther (going probably to Lyon for more playing time), Palisson (Castres) just to name a few (still nonetheless)
1 Year, 1 Month ago
Toulon chairman Mourad Boudjellal on building the champion club
Toulouse can almost align an all-french line-up and be successful (montès, tolofua, loosehead, maestri, millo-chlusky, nyanga, Dusautoir, picamoles, doussain, beauxis, fritz, fickou, Médard, huget, poitrenaud,...only a loosehead missing, because Guillamon isn't ready yet and mostly plays tighthead) in fact, it happens quite often. Can Toulon do that?
1 Year, 1 Month ago
Toulon chairman Mourad Boudjellal on building the champion club
not to mention the way Bernard Laporte, the great, behaves regarding certain refs.
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Toulon chairman Mourad Boudjellal on building the champion club
What I mean Eddie-g is that rugby will become bigger and bigger, attracting even more foreign star players to big french powehouses and young french players won't get they're chance. By ''bad thingswill happen to french rugby'' I meant ''bad things will happen to the French national rugby level
1 Year, 1 Month ago
Toulon chairman Mourad Boudjellal on building the champion club
New York Yankees of Rugby. Bad things will happen to french rugby in a couple years
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