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Brief digression: PSA-era France
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 655889" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>I don't want to sound like an ignorant prick. But I have to ask:</p><p></p><p>Isn't this whole downward spiral of the French National team, due to the French top 14's clubs and their ever-expanding wallets being dished out to purchase foreign players? In the last month 2 young prospects from SA, have been lured to France in Johan Goosen and Paul Willemse. Both are under 22 years old.</p><p></p><p>If I look at the log of the just completed season, the top 4 teams in Toulon, Montpellier, Clermont and Toulouse, all have 15 or more non-french players in their squads. That is a total of 60 players in just 4 teams that are not french players. To me, the french public, is being a bit harsh on PSA. And they must remove their blindfolds and see that where one part is flourishing, the other part is struggling. While the fans, as have been numerously been mentioned on the forum, are more into their Clubs than their national team, they expect their National team to be competitive. HOW!!??? your top 4 teams have together 60 players that are better than your local french players, what kind of message are you trying to send to your prospects for the national team?? While it's always nice to point the finger at the coach, I feel in PSA's case, it's a bit unfair, as the ideas for French-rugby and it's future, are not correct. Your clubs feeds your national team. If your clubs keeps on bringing in more and more foreign players, then your national team will continue to spiral downwards. The quality will become diluted to such an extent that whoever is the coach of France, will have a torrid time as his pool of players will just keep on shrinking, while everyone still expects them to be one of the best in the world.</p><p></p><p>It just doesn't make any sense...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 655889, member: 40658"] I don't want to sound like an ignorant prick. But I have to ask: Isn't this whole downward spiral of the French National team, due to the French top 14's clubs and their ever-expanding wallets being dished out to purchase foreign players? In the last month 2 young prospects from SA, have been lured to France in Johan Goosen and Paul Willemse. Both are under 22 years old. If I look at the log of the just completed season, the top 4 teams in Toulon, Montpellier, Clermont and Toulouse, all have 15 or more non-french players in their squads. That is a total of 60 players in just 4 teams that are not french players. To me, the french public, is being a bit harsh on PSA. And they must remove their blindfolds and see that where one part is flourishing, the other part is struggling. While the fans, as have been numerously been mentioned on the forum, are more into their Clubs than their national team, they expect their National team to be competitive. HOW!!??? your top 4 teams have together 60 players that are better than your local french players, what kind of message are you trying to send to your prospects for the national team?? While it's always nice to point the finger at the coach, I feel in PSA's case, it's a bit unfair, as the ideas for French-rugby and it's future, are not correct. Your clubs feeds your national team. If your clubs keeps on bringing in more and more foreign players, then your national team will continue to spiral downwards. The quality will become diluted to such an extent that whoever is the coach of France, will have a torrid time as his pool of players will just keep on shrinking, while everyone still expects them to be one of the best in the world. It just doesn't make any sense... [/QUOTE]
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