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<blockquote data-quote="OverGore" data-source="post: 762789" data-attributes="member: 73160">yes exactly, but this depends of the areas in France but you are totally right.Rugby isnt the national sport here, football, tennis and even cycling i think have bigger federations. Notice how we suck as well in cycling and tennis, but its another subject lol.BUT, the number should fix this. We have so many kids learning rugby, and a quarter france is away from football, all south west is dedicated to rugby. For example, how come your pillars all have 100times more technik and skills than ours? I speak outside scrum. I wonder if it cos you send youngsters to this role later than we do. Do you give a general common basis to all players til a certain age?I wonder, really. In france, u learn what is to be learned about ur place, Period, and it starts soon. So pillars can barely do a pass, and if one can, hes called a world class one. You must laugh so much when you see Bastareaud. Askin yourself, wtf is that player made for? In new zealand maybe he woudl have been a pillar in NRL. Here its a center. The truth is , France got traumatized by the physical gap between sh and nh in the 90s. They felt it was the main reason of 1995 and 1999 loss. So all was centered then on building physical players. So we lost a lot by doing this. We went from Sella to Bastareaud. Just this kills me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OverGore, post: 762789, member: 73160"] yes exactly, but this depends of the areas in France but you are totally right. Rugby isnt the national sport here, football, tennis and even cycling i think have bigger federations. Notice how we suck as well in cycling and tennis, but its another subject lol. BUT, the number should fix this. We have so many kids learning rugby, and a quarter france is away from football, all south west is dedicated to rugby. For example, how come your pillars all have 100times more technik and skills than ours? I speak outside scrum. I wonder if it cos you send youngsters to this role later than we do. Do you give a general common basis to all players til a certain age? I wonder, really. In france, u learn what is to be learned about ur place, Period, and it starts soon. So pillars can barely do a pass, and if one can, hes called a world class one. You must laugh so much when you see Bastareaud. Askin yourself, wtf is that player made for? In new zealand maybe he woudl have been a pillar in NRL. Here its a center. The truth is , France got traumatized by the physical gap between sh and nh in the 90s. They felt it was the main reason of 1995 and 1999 loss. So all was centered then on building physical players. So we lost a lot by doing this. We went from Sella to Bastareaud. Just this kills me. [/QUOTE]

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