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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 674068" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>yep, not to forget coaches Mignoni (backs) and Delmas (fronts ? - ok, forwards) yelling on the sideline and looking like it's their own children out there playing every night. There's just a culture of excellence in Toulon where every single little aspect, detail - every inch in Rugby lore, every corner there is to know, every market there is to speculate; just all things, psychological or more concrete - are met. Everything is studied and made to be the most convenient and simple.</p><p></p><p>It took me time to understand this, as I was like many others before, completely ignorant of all such things in Toulon, unintelligently judging; much easier to just blame blame blame when a team is winning and from afar looks like all their success derives from a cheque book only. Much easier to point fingers and not try harder to consider the actual facts, sit down and really try to understand how they did it; a much more convenient shortcut to create a scapegoat, much less of a headache.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day: you have a team, you buy a team, own a team, coach a team - TO WIN. They're playing within the rules (I think..) or at very least are not unique at all in what they do and do not possess so much (more) that it is strictly unthinkable for others to take them down and take what they have. They're the best club in France, the best club in Europe, possibly more; and that's all the other teams need to know. They need to put their heads down, and work, and maybe they'll be at Toulon's level and take what is currently theirs: the European Cup and the Brennus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 674068, member: 57076"] yep, not to forget coaches Mignoni (backs) and Delmas (fronts ? - ok, forwards) yelling on the sideline and looking like it's their own children out there playing every night. There's just a culture of excellence in Toulon where every single little aspect, detail - every inch in Rugby lore, every corner there is to know, every market there is to speculate; just all things, psychological or more concrete - are met. Everything is studied and made to be the most convenient and simple. It took me time to understand this, as I was like many others before, completely ignorant of all such things in Toulon, unintelligently judging; much easier to just blame blame blame when a team is winning and from afar looks like all their success derives from a cheque book only. Much easier to point fingers and not try harder to consider the actual facts, sit down and really try to understand how they did it; a much more convenient shortcut to create a scapegoat, much less of a headache. At the end of the day: you have a team, you buy a team, own a team, coach a team - TO WIN. They're playing within the rules (I think..) or at very least are not unique at all in what they do and do not possess so much (more) that it is strictly unthinkable for others to take them down and take what they have. They're the best club in France, the best club in Europe, possibly more; and that's all the other teams need to know. They need to put their heads down, and work, and maybe they'll be at Toulon's level and take what is currently theirs: the European Cup and the Brennus. [/QUOTE]
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