56m, yep ! But he's got a long way to go still - will need to see more of him.
you can put it this way, sure. I say he made the effort to keep ball in hand, look for ambitious solutions in stead of systematically kicking in empty spaces behind the opposing back three, and managed some creative passing in extremely narrow spaces and often created out of nothing, no momentum. And Toulon actually ran if you remember the game:
It's just as we've all seen the mighty RC Toulon had its worst game in months, and at home, maybe in a year or more. One word: knockon. Michalak isn't responsible for his entire backline being victims of the occasional but severe knockon plague. Michalak, Mignoni weren't responsible of that last weekend. The latter even called this match a mere "accident", which I agree with. Yes Bordeaux were good, but Toulon made a comical number of unforced errors.
My comment about Michalak not being in the Top10 for me is largely due to his inconsistency. He was lightning-quick and accurate on Saturday, but who knows next week, and the week after. He made his tackles, but is a liability on defense, and in the scope of the xv de France I'd rather have any of FTD, Talès, or Camille Lopez who just baptized Johan Goosen as seen above. Lopez against Racing, by the way: 11/11 tackles. Even Wisniewski and Bernard are more reliable on defense and they're not contact 10's. Plisson is on defense, like everything in his game, a work in progress, but he will not be an average 10 when he's done evolving.
Don't forget Michalak's last time ruling the world, it wasn't so long ago. November 2012. I know things have changed, and I of course don't want him for France, but just sayin..