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<blockquote data-quote="elgringoborracho" data-source="post: 251587"><p>What a disaster this staff has been for France. They have managed to turn one of the best teams in Europe into a bunch of insecure cry-babies. Their selection policy couldn't be cracked by any expert as it isn't far from pure chance. When our team wins and gains confidence, they make changes. Now we were humiliated and they have just announced that they won't make any changes against Italy. How is that supposed to help anyone?</p><p>This tournament is at least a good lesson they will have to learn so we don't make the same mistakes next year. </p><p></p><p>1) We need a f**** kicker. Anyone. Beauxis, Elissalde, Yachvili, pick your favorite. Mine is Beauxis. He is rock solid, and never loses his self confidence. He has moments of sheer brilliance ball in hand, and at least when he doesn't have them he still slots 55m drop goals to make himslef worthy. When we were lead 7-0 against england Parra missed an easy penalty that would have meant "we are in the game now". Not saying it would have changed the course of the game, but it probably would have helped the players understand they had the right to start f*** playing. Not having a kicker almost cost us the match against Wales (I keep thinking maybe Henson passing the bloody ball in the last minute would't have done us so much harm in the end_ at least we would have learnt lesson 1 two weeks earlier).</p><p></p><p>2) Chabal is a charismatic player, fun to watch and a good ball carrier but he is f**ing useless in defense and in the rucks. We owe him England's first try by the way. He is nothing of the reckless fighter his beard and hair sugges so none of him in the third row anymore please.</p><p></p><p>3) Harinordoquy and Dusautoir are awesome. This is f***ing great news. With Picamoles, Ouedraogo, Bonnaire or Vermeulen we could have one of the world's best third rows.</p><p></p><p>4) Bastareaud can clearly play at international level. With Fritz and Jauzion we have more than enough great centers.</p><p></p><p>5) Not much we can say about our back three watching yesterday's game seing how few balls they had. I still think Malzieu is a good player, but he was probably burnt after the crazy week he had playing the 7s WC, Clermont vs Toulouse, and all the 6N games. Medard is convincing I believe, solid under the high balls and good kicking game too. He had some good breaks yesterday as well and I expect a lot from him next week with some space in the defense. Heymans is my major concern so why not remember the existence of Clerc or Rougerie???</p><p></p><p>6) Lievremont IS building a team for 2011. Lots of young promising players had their first caps thanks to him and there are more to come. Us beating England in the U20's has to be a good proof of that. But he has to understand that making erratic choices only drives the players into confusion and deprives them of their self confidence.</p><p></p><p>That's all I had to say. Good game the english, may you please rot in hell</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elgringoborracho, post: 251587"] What a disaster this staff has been for France. They have managed to turn one of the best teams in Europe into a bunch of insecure cry-babies. Their selection policy couldn't be cracked by any expert as it isn't far from pure chance. When our team wins and gains confidence, they make changes. Now we were humiliated and they have just announced that they won't make any changes against Italy. How is that supposed to help anyone? This tournament is at least a good lesson they will have to learn so we don't make the same mistakes next year. 1) We need a f**** kicker. Anyone. Beauxis, Elissalde, Yachvili, pick your favorite. Mine is Beauxis. He is rock solid, and never loses his self confidence. He has moments of sheer brilliance ball in hand, and at least when he doesn't have them he still slots 55m drop goals to make himslef worthy. When we were lead 7-0 against england Parra missed an easy penalty that would have meant "we are in the game now". Not saying it would have changed the course of the game, but it probably would have helped the players understand they had the right to start f*** playing. Not having a kicker almost cost us the match against Wales (I keep thinking maybe Henson passing the bloody ball in the last minute would't have done us so much harm in the end_ at least we would have learnt lesson 1 two weeks earlier). 2) Chabal is a charismatic player, fun to watch and a good ball carrier but he is f**ing useless in defense and in the rucks. We owe him England's first try by the way. He is nothing of the reckless fighter his beard and hair sugges so none of him in the third row anymore please. 3) Harinordoquy and Dusautoir are awesome. This is f***ing great news. With Picamoles, Ouedraogo, Bonnaire or Vermeulen we could have one of the world's best third rows. 4) Bastareaud can clearly play at international level. With Fritz and Jauzion we have more than enough great centers. 5) Not much we can say about our back three watching yesterday's game seing how few balls they had. I still think Malzieu is a good player, but he was probably burnt after the crazy week he had playing the 7s WC, Clermont vs Toulouse, and all the 6N games. Medard is convincing I believe, solid under the high balls and good kicking game too. He had some good breaks yesterday as well and I expect a lot from him next week with some space in the defense. Heymans is my major concern so why not remember the existence of Clerc or Rougerie??? 6) Lievremont IS building a team for 2011. Lots of young promising players had their first caps thanks to him and there are more to come. Us beating England in the U20's has to be a good proof of that. But he has to understand that making erratic choices only drives the players into confusion and deprives them of their self confidence. That's all I had to say. Good game the english, may you please rot in hell [/QUOTE]
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