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<blockquote data-quote="barthelemy" data-source="post: 769265" data-attributes="member: 56370"><p>France : Rebuild everything <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>I have big doubt of any big changes for France : the new coach does not send any sign of wanting to change things deeply, the union is organizing a technical meeting to see what went wrong (meeting from which nothing will come out as usual) and clubs are still the same, whinging constantly "we want our players back, we are paying for them, we do not care of the national team, you will have our players 3 days before the start of the next 6 nations and be happy with it".</p><p></p><p>I'm really scared for the national team, I think seriously that we will just fight to not have the wooden spoon in years to come 6th nations, we won't come out of the pool stage next world cup as we will be in a much more complicated pool with countries that have improved their rugby during 4 years.</p><p></p><p>The only hope I have is the Top 14 becoming a really crappy championship (which would not attract anymore players and sponsors) as we could start on a clean sheet with poorer clubs that won't be able to dictate their way in the future. At least we will maybe find back our flair !</p><p></p><p>Or Union to start to contract the players. But Clubs will refuse this I guess, very tiny chances that there would be any agreement on this in the near future. And this is not the only issue in France, it is all the structure of the french rugby that would need to be renewed in order to feed the union with players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barthelemy, post: 769265, member: 56370"] France : Rebuild everything :p I have big doubt of any big changes for France : the new coach does not send any sign of wanting to change things deeply, the union is organizing a technical meeting to see what went wrong (meeting from which nothing will come out as usual) and clubs are still the same, whinging constantly "we want our players back, we are paying for them, we do not care of the national team, you will have our players 3 days before the start of the next 6 nations and be happy with it". I'm really scared for the national team, I think seriously that we will just fight to not have the wooden spoon in years to come 6th nations, we won't come out of the pool stage next world cup as we will be in a much more complicated pool with countries that have improved their rugby during 4 years. The only hope I have is the Top 14 becoming a really crappy championship (which would not attract anymore players and sponsors) as we could start on a clean sheet with poorer clubs that won't be able to dictate their way in the future. At least we will maybe find back our flair ! Or Union to start to contract the players. But Clubs will refuse this I guess, very tiny chances that there would be any agreement on this in the near future. And this is not the only issue in France, it is all the structure of the french rugby that would need to be renewed in order to feed the union with players. [/QUOTE]
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