"I've been covering for them for three years. The France jersey should bring out your best, you should be a gladiator," said Saint-Andre.
"The result is that you lose to Wales four times in a row. If some of them think the highest level is too hard, they've got my telephone number.
"There are guys who started three years ago and have 30 or 40 caps now. You have to stop hiding behind smokescreens.
"Your career is forged on the pitch and not in the media posing for photos.
"We don't need little stars. In rugby the team is the star and it needs champions.
"Yesterday (Saturday), I didn't see many champions."
Saint-Andre also blamed the club game, which has more matches than any other major league in the world, for France's failings, suggesting the influx of star foreigners has prevented French players from playing regularly.
"I'd love to be the problem in French rugby, but there are others," he said defiantly.
"And when I'm told to go looking for other players, I reply that the under-20s did the Grand Slam last year but how many are playing in the Top 14?
"There are only three. You have to ask the true questions. If we have to wait until they're 25-26 to play in the Top 14, what can we do?"
Whatever happens, though, Saint-Andre said he will never quit.
"I've never jumped ship, whether as player, captain, manager, coach or father," he said.
"I'll never leave the boat. I was given a role, a position: to prepare this team for the World Cup so we have a great World Cup and I will fight every day to do that. I will die with my convictions."
He was also one of the leading players with Fra U20 that won the GS.
