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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Ireland vs France - 09/03/2013
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<blockquote data-quote="jaunard06" data-source="post: 556201" data-attributes="member: 56207"><p>It's funny to see that a few years ago we would have been 10+ points ahead in such a match after one hour, then suddenly ran out of fuel and barely win or being beaten in the last minute.</p><p>Now we can hold physically 80 minutes but struggle to even put in place a strategy and rely only on engagement and physical impact to (try to) win a game. I think that this is more worrying than PSA himself, BTW it started long before him.</p><p></p><p>PSA took weird decisions especially for his selection, but firing him will not solve long term issues. The issue being that we always want results <em>now</em> while we should rebuild on the long term - losing matches in the process, but when the WC is there we would at least have clarified and solved many issues. Here we lose matches but don't prepare anything.</p><p></p><p>We have to think <strong>long term</strong> or we will always remain with that famous "unpredictability" issue, that mainly comes from that fact that french players don't know themselves what they're going to do the next 5 seconds; sometimes it ends up with a fantastic piece of flair, and sometimes...FFR needs to get inspired by clubs like Toulouse, Irish provinces, Clermont, and other teams for which whoever are the players at any point in time, you seem to always see the same successful game characteristics. We won't win all the matches but we may lose some unpredictability.</p><p></p><p>The basis for performance IMO does not only rely in individual players quality - I dont think the quality of individual players in the french squad is questioned apart from Michalak, and even Fred has been very good before the 6N as well with France than with Toulon - but it relies also on consistency - to have a plan and stick to it -, from regularity and training, which implies using the same players or at least select a core of players per game area coming from a maximum of 2/3 teams as much as possible. Currently this is very complicated because either the national coach favorizes individual performance, or french players are very often pushed on the bench by foreign players, or major players are simply scattered. </p><p></p><p>Today if I want to build a major Top14 club very quickly it seems I will necessarily have to travel to Samoa and Georgia to build my front row, SAF or England for the rest of the forwards, Argentina, Australia, Fiji or New Zealand for the rest of the team; if I really can't find enough then France may become an option. Until now I don't have the feeling that doing this french clubs perform much better than their foreign counterparts. Toulouse has won more Boucliers than any other french team and still is a major provider for the national squad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaunard06, post: 556201, member: 56207"] It's funny to see that a few years ago we would have been 10+ points ahead in such a match after one hour, then suddenly ran out of fuel and barely win or being beaten in the last minute. Now we can hold physically 80 minutes but struggle to even put in place a strategy and rely only on engagement and physical impact to (try to) win a game. I think that this is more worrying than PSA himself, BTW it started long before him. PSA took weird decisions especially for his selection, but firing him will not solve long term issues. The issue being that we always want results [I]now[/I] while we should rebuild on the long term - losing matches in the process, but when the WC is there we would at least have clarified and solved many issues. Here we lose matches but don't prepare anything. We have to think [b]long term[/b] or we will always remain with that famous "unpredictability" issue, that mainly comes from that fact that french players don't know themselves what they're going to do the next 5 seconds; sometimes it ends up with a fantastic piece of flair, and sometimes...FFR needs to get inspired by clubs like Toulouse, Irish provinces, Clermont, and other teams for which whoever are the players at any point in time, you seem to always see the same successful game characteristics. We won't win all the matches but we may lose some unpredictability. The basis for performance IMO does not only rely in individual players quality - I dont think the quality of individual players in the french squad is questioned apart from Michalak, and even Fred has been very good before the 6N as well with France than with Toulon - but it relies also on consistency - to have a plan and stick to it -, from regularity and training, which implies using the same players or at least select a core of players per game area coming from a maximum of 2/3 teams as much as possible. Currently this is very complicated because either the national coach favorizes individual performance, or french players are very often pushed on the bench by foreign players, or major players are simply scattered. Today if I want to build a major Top14 club very quickly it seems I will necessarily have to travel to Samoa and Georgia to build my front row, SAF or England for the rest of the forwards, Argentina, Australia, Fiji or New Zealand for the rest of the team; if I really can't find enough then France may become an option. Until now I don't have the feeling that doing this french clubs perform much better than their foreign counterparts. Toulouse has won more Boucliers than any other french team and still is a major provider for the national squad. [/QUOTE]
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