Perpignan sack coach Delmas

[TRF_Cymro]

Perpignan have sacked manager Jacques Delmas after just four months in charge of the Top 14 side.

http://www.espnscrum.com/france-top-14-2011-12/rugby/story/154732.html​

 

[TRF_Olyy]

To be fair, he's run USAP in to the ground.

 

[psychic duck]

according to some of the media this guy is the favourite to be next in charge ...

with Stade Français looking much healthier of late, Perpignan could replace them as the big side which will struggle for a few seasons

I think Perpignan really need to dismantle this current side and rebuild a new one, their invincible home record papered over cracks last season, and this season the cracks have got even wider

on USAP's shopping list should be

an entirely new back row (le Corvec is old an indisciplined, Tuilagi and Tonita are old too, Chouly is poor, only Perez is worth keeping)
1 lock (Alvarez has retired and Olibeau has turned from good consistent player to just a penalty conceding machine)
1 loosehead prop (Freshwater is 38, nuff said)
1 scrum half (David Mélé not good enough, Cazenave not good enough to be first choice yet either)
1 good winger who can play full back (Perpignan have never had a great winger for some reason)

 

[Teh Mite]

I hope Lièvremont gets the England job. For the hilarity of Banahan being started at fly half.

 

[Melhor Time]

Its hard not to feel sorry for Delmas considering he was hired and fired from Stade Français in a similar manner a few seasons back.

Perpignan have been surprizing for quite some time. I never quite believed the side were Top 14 Champions in 2009. They defeated far better sides in the Semi and Final (SF and Clermont). The coach has now gone as has the team, or so it seems.

Some work to do on the playing roster as there are some rubbish players. If I was a recruiter for the club I´d be thinking I really messed things up as many stars are aged. Henry Tuilagi, Marius Tincu.... Really the club is now a genuine midtable side. It has significantly inferior players to the likes of Toulouse, Racing Metro, Stade Français, Montpellier, Clermont, Biarritz and Toulon. Castres and Bayonne can lay claim to being superior too. I think Perpignan has seven good players and the rest are not up to the standard required, i.e. they are not good enough to a Top 14 championship. The likes of Damien Chouly, Olivier Olibeau, Nicolas Laharrague, Grégory Le Corvec, Jean-Philippe Grandclaude and Jerome Porical should perhaps be playing for Agen, Brive or Bordeaux-Begles or better yet Newcastle or Aironi. I seriously couldn´t see Porical starting at fullback for Aironi so thinking that he is Perpignan´s fullback is really, really strange. They all played for France because Perpignan were winning games. Upon national selection they were all proven to be below par and none of them lasted long in les Bleus.

Marius Tincu is the only good backup player in the roster.

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2 Guilhem Guirado
3 Nicolas Mas
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6 Ovidiu Tonita
7 Jean-Pierre Perez
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10 James Hook
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12 Maxime Mermoz
13 David Marty
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[psychic duck]

Its hard not to feel sorry for Delmas considering he was hired and fired from Stade Français in a similar manner a few seasons back.

Perpignan have been surprizing for quite some time. I never quite believed the side were Top 14 Champions in 2009. They defeated far better sides in the Semi and Final (SF and Clermont). The coach has now gone as has the team, or so it seems.

Some work to do on the playing roster as there are some rubbish players. If I was a recruiter for the club I´d be thinking I really messed things up as many stars are aged. Henry Tuilagi, Marius Tincu.... Really the club is now a genuine midtable side. It has significantly inferior players to the likes of Toulouse, Racing Metro, Stade Français, Montpellier, Clermont, Biarritz and Toulon. Castres and Bayonne can lay claim to being superior too. I think Perpignan has seven good players and the rest are not up to the standard required, i.e. they are not good enough to a Top 14 championship. The likes of Damien Chouly, Olivier Olibeau, Nicolas Laharrague, Grégory Le Corvec, Jean-Philippe Grandclaude and Jerome Porical should perhaps be playing for Agen, Brive or Bordeaux-Begles or better yet Newcastle or Aironi. I seriously couldn´t see Porical starting at fullback for Aironi so thinking that he is Perpignan´s fullback is really, really strange. They all played for France because Perpignan were winning games. Upon national selection they were all proven to be below par and none of them lasted long in les Bleus.

Marius Tincu is the only good backup player in the roster.

1
2 Guilhem Guirado
3 Nicolas Mas
4
5
6 Ovidiu Tonita
7 Jean-Pierre Perez
8
9
10 James Hook
11
12 Maxime Mermoz
13 David Marty
14
15

yes I agree totally Melhor, Delmas was left an aged squad in a serious need of rebuilding, some of the players they have starting I would only have as back ups at most

they had been successful in the Top 14 because they were invincible at home, but now that has gone and I think they will have a lean few years like Stade Français have had

 

[Pierce Brosnan Rugby]

It is the time!! Bring Denis Simplikevich and Victor Gresev to perpignan !!!