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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 544961" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>The thing that has always really described the French teams inconsistency for me isn't just in terms of result. When people claim they aren't consistent - it's more a case that they don't maintain a prolonged period of dominance. Their team is always up there as either the best or second best in Europe at any given time - but they haven't produced a team which season to season is extremely dominent. They're always there or there abouts which I suppose is consistent, but they never seem to get a team which you could look back on as a dominent team. They also tend to lose games they should win, and win games they should lose - hard to quantify that as a statistic though.</p><p></p><p>For me the reason I think of France as inconsistent has been as much to do with selections as anything else. I look at some players which are class players such as Nyanga, Bastareaud and Michelak who have all looked good/great in a French jersey, but then seem to fade quickly into obscurity until 3-4 years later when they resurface. Now part of that is because France has great depth - but what always dismays me is that they've always thought 'this player is playing the best rugby in the top 14 at the moment, so he should be in our national team'. Which is fine, except instead of picking the best player in the team from the last season, select the consistently best player over the last few seasons and then show a bit of faith in them. France never seems to grow as a team because the individual components of the teams change so often.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 544961, member: 38640"] The thing that has always really described the French teams inconsistency for me isn't just in terms of result. When people claim they aren't consistent - it's more a case that they don't maintain a prolonged period of dominance. Their team is always up there as either the best or second best in Europe at any given time - but they haven't produced a team which season to season is extremely dominent. They're always there or there abouts which I suppose is consistent, but they never seem to get a team which you could look back on as a dominent team. They also tend to lose games they should win, and win games they should lose - hard to quantify that as a statistic though. For me the reason I think of France as inconsistent has been as much to do with selections as anything else. I look at some players which are class players such as Nyanga, Bastareaud and Michelak who have all looked good/great in a French jersey, but then seem to fade quickly into obscurity until 3-4 years later when they resurface. Now part of that is because France has great depth - but what always dismays me is that they've always thought 'this player is playing the best rugby in the top 14 at the moment, so he should be in our national team'. Which is fine, except instead of picking the best player in the team from the last season, select the consistently best player over the last few seasons and then show a bit of faith in them. France never seems to grow as a team because the individual components of the teams change so often. [/QUOTE]
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