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<blockquote data-quote="FrenchFan" data-source="post: 928730" data-attributes="member: 70871"><p>I am not sure I get that argument. Others will take over. Natural selection. Darwin. Why prop up the FFR with a ridiculous point system instead of opening up the game to upcoming nations? the current system fosters mediocrity. One of the reasons the test game is in decline.</p><p></p><p>Argentina and Japan are strong candidates for the Top 8. Japan ran 5 tries past NZ that's one try more than the FFR circus managed to score in 3 games in June against same opposition.</p><p></p><p>To go back to the thread.</p><p></p><p>Looking at the forwards Brunel has picked, I smell more trouble for Moustache. He's picked the same group of forwards that failed him in June and again in November. He thinks picking the Toulouse and Clermont backs will get him tries. He's wrong. Not behind a pack of plodders with Atonio Guirado Willemse Sanconnie Picamoles etc. Toulouse and Clermont don't play the same rugby as Brunel.</p><p></p><p>He's built his side around two talentless washouts in Guirado and Bastareaud. Both are having a nightmare with Toulon. They're out of Europe and virtually out of the race in T14. Guirado is behind Camille Chat and Julien Marchand (Toulouse captain) in every Top 14 pecking order I've seen. La Rochelle's hooker Pierre Bourgarit (20) is a first starter and has been excellent. Bastareaud is behind Fofana Fickou Vakatawa Penaud. <em>So Brunel's captain and vice-captain are 3rd and 5th choices in their position...</em></p><p>Vakatawa whose repositioning at centre has worked a treat for Racing has been left out. Virimi has scored 13 tries in 17 games. Yet Brunel favours a donkey like Doumeyrou who is 29 and has yet to score a try at test level! Hilarious.</p><p></p><p>hey who's delusional</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrenchFan, post: 928730, member: 70871"] I am not sure I get that argument. Others will take over. Natural selection. Darwin. Why prop up the FFR with a ridiculous point system instead of opening up the game to upcoming nations? the current system fosters mediocrity. One of the reasons the test game is in decline. Argentina and Japan are strong candidates for the Top 8. Japan ran 5 tries past NZ that's one try more than the FFR circus managed to score in 3 games in June against same opposition. To go back to the thread. Looking at the forwards Brunel has picked, I smell more trouble for Moustache. He's picked the same group of forwards that failed him in June and again in November. He thinks picking the Toulouse and Clermont backs will get him tries. He's wrong. Not behind a pack of plodders with Atonio Guirado Willemse Sanconnie Picamoles etc. Toulouse and Clermont don't play the same rugby as Brunel. He's built his side around two talentless washouts in Guirado and Bastareaud. Both are having a nightmare with Toulon. They're out of Europe and virtually out of the race in T14. Guirado is behind Camille Chat and Julien Marchand (Toulouse captain) in every Top 14 pecking order I've seen. La Rochelle's hooker Pierre Bourgarit (20) is a first starter and has been excellent. Bastareaud is behind Fofana Fickou Vakatawa Penaud. [I]So Brunel's captain and vice-captain are 3rd and 5th choices in their position...[/I] Vakatawa whose repositioning at centre has worked a treat for Racing has been left out. Virimi has scored 13 tries in 17 games. Yet Brunel favours a donkey like Doumeyrou who is 29 and has yet to score a try at test level! Hilarious. hey who's delusional [/QUOTE]
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