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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 685305" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>ah yes, that's true. You're right. It *could've been* any other club just so long as they escaped the Basque country. That's true in theory. </p><p>But all I know though, what I see with my eyes is almost literally every single player who goes to Toulon turns good: whether he was a) in a Top 14 bad club, b) an average/ even good club, c) or a foreigner whose int'l career was dying out and whose form was lackluster, or d) train a guy who likely would've been irrelevant anywhere else, e) some unknown foreigner who finds good form - they come to Toulon and turn into something (or at least maintain excellent form).</p><p></p><p>In that order, we have a) Menini, Barcella, Romain Tao... b) Eric Escande, Bastareaud, Mermoz to some extent c) Juan Smith, Rossouw, Steff Armitage, O'Connor d) Chiocci, Orioli e) Burden, to some extent David Smith.</p><p></p><p>I definitely didn't mean Barcella was back to where he was, not sure what I said but regardless I never said he was as good in the scrum obviously but he's got that good activity around the park which I'd only seen previously when he played for les Bleus, and not in Biarritz tbh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 685305, member: 57076"] ah yes, that's true. You're right. It *could've been* any other club just so long as they escaped the Basque country. That's true in theory. But all I know though, what I see with my eyes is almost literally every single player who goes to Toulon turns good: whether he was a) in a Top 14 bad club, b) an average/ even good club, c) or a foreigner whose int'l career was dying out and whose form was lackluster, or d) train a guy who likely would've been irrelevant anywhere else, e) some unknown foreigner who finds good form - they come to Toulon and turn into something (or at least maintain excellent form). In that order, we have a) Menini, Barcella, Romain Tao... b) Eric Escande, Bastareaud, Mermoz to some extent c) Juan Smith, Rossouw, Steff Armitage, O'Connor d) Chiocci, Orioli e) Burden, to some extent David Smith. I definitely didn't mean Barcella was back to where he was, not sure what I said but regardless I never said he was as good in the scrum obviously but he's got that good activity around the park which I'd only seen previously when he played for les Bleus, and not in Biarritz tbh. [/QUOTE]
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