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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 628987" data-attributes="member: 57076">of course there&#039;s a quota lol, thank God. Or we&#039;d have all&nbsp; foreigners, and possibly the entire All-Blacks and Boks and Samoan and&nbsp; Georgian squads circulating in the Top 14. And as incompetent as the FFR&nbsp; might be, the Top 14 may not lack in competence but they&#039;re the ones&nbsp; causing a lot of the issue. They&#039;re the ones not interested in&nbsp; collaborating, and they&#039;re the ones not giving a crap about agreements&nbsp; when they&#039;re made.Haven&#039;t read the article, but they say Fritz is too old for the RWC ?? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> he&#039;s our best center with Fofana, 30 yo or not. And Debatty a starter ???? That&#039;s flat out blasphemous FrenchFan.*About PSA and Schmidt*:there&#039;s an interesting ***le on a French website that goes &quot;Schmidt only needed 6 months&quot;.Hadn&#039;t thought about it that way...it&#039;s true. As French fans we&#039;ve been sucked into this situation and have been like fish in a bowl for too long. I guess it&#039;s the natural survival instinct, we won&#039;t let go. We can&#039;t just let go, so we patiently resume the ordeal of being supporters of the team.But all it takes is about 6 months. Heck, Lancaster&#039;s effect was almost immediate. They were a young squad and beat everybody but GS winning Wales that first year. They managed a draw in South Africa.Schmidt turned this Ireland team around and tapped into that potential we honestly didn&#039;t know they had. We knew Ireland had a lot of talent, but nobody expected this: giving the AB&#039;s multiple heart-attacks and bullying Wales so badly people instantly started to question Gatland ball altogether !...they just put a score on Italy that&#039;s only reminiscent of the earlier years of the 6N tournament.A coach doesn&#039;t need &quot;a while&quot; to get his team in shape. Directives, authority, order...all that can be conveyed on the spot.Philippe Saint-AndrÃ© is just simply a disaster. A disaster.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 628987, member: 57076"] of course there's a quota lol, thank God. Or we'd have all foreigners, and possibly the entire All-Blacks and Boks and Samoan and Georgian squads circulating in the Top 14. And as incompetent as the FFR might be, the Top 14 may not lack in competence but they're the ones causing a lot of the issue. They're the ones not interested in collaborating, and they're the ones not giving a crap about agreements when they're made. Haven't read the article, but they say Fritz is too old for the RWC ?? :D he's our best center with Fofana, 30 yo or not. And Debatty a starter ???? That's flat out [U]blasphemous[/U] FrenchFan. *About PSA and Schmidt*: there's an interesting ***le on a French website that goes "Schmidt only needed 6 months". Hadn't thought about it that way...it's true. As French fans we've been sucked into this situation and have been like fish in a bowl for too long. I guess it's the natural survival instinct, we won't let go. We can't just let go, so we patiently resume the ordeal of being supporters of the team. But all it takes is about 6 months. Heck, Lancaster's effect was almost immediate. They were a young squad and beat everybody but GS winning Wales that first year. They managed a draw in South Africa. Schmidt turned this Ireland team around and tapped into that potential we honestly didn't know they had. We knew Ireland had a lot of talent, but nobody expected this: giving the AB's multiple heart-attacks and bullying Wales so badly people instantly started to question Gatland ball altogether !...they just put a score on Italy that's only reminiscent of the earlier years of the 6N tournament. A coach doesn't need "a while" to get his team in shape. Directives, authority, order...all that can be conveyed on the spot. Philippe Saint-AndrÃ© is just simply a disaster. A disaster. [/QUOTE]

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