Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux

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Fickou is doing his thing again tonight.

There was a time a few years ago when I thought him and Fofana would be the new Charvet and Sella, now I think Fickou could be out there on his own

Fickou always had it in him. Just needed the right coach. He almost single handedly won Fra the U21 RWC.

Fofana was NEVER a centre. Worst hands of a back since Ben Cohen. Fofana's strengths were his pace and brilliant running lines = he was always a winger.

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He is superb.

But Sella is my favourite player of all time so I can’t have that I’m afraid.

Edit: wasn’t he just given credit for that through the legs thing for the Racing try but it was actually Beale?

By the way, have you come across Brothers in Arms by David Beresford? Incredible book that sounds right up your street

Sella was in a class of his own. "Strength of a bull and hands of a piano player" was spot on.

That f**king commentator on Premier is a disgrace. Makes Jake look world class.

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Ouch, the ref has stuffed his ankle

I know that pain, I did my ankle and the ligaments several times,

Tranini gave what must have been the worst pen try decision in the history of the game. And we won't be seeing him for a while.

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Who’s going to stop Toulouse? It has been only 2 games but it’s scary to see how efficient they are.

Top14 club’s budgets, from 13 to 39 millions ( Bitcoins not included for some SA players …. maybe)

Diaporama
https://dicodusport.fr/blog/top-14-budg ... /#quatorze

Thanks for the link. Just how much is Paris underperforming with that Budget?!!

Interesting to compare ASM with Toulouse: clubs going in opposite directions as ASM are repeating what happened to Toulouse at the end of the Noves' era.

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The Scottish Rugby Union's budget would place them around 4th on that list.

That is the total budget for all the international players and running both Edinburgh and Glasgow plus their academies, the U20s, U18s, 7s and the women's team and their U20s and 7s, plus all the coaches and backroom staff for each.

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The Scottish Rugby Union's budget would place them around 4th on that list.

That is the total budget for all the international players and running both Edinburgh and Glasgow plus their academies, the U20s, U18s, 7s and the women's team and their U20s and 7s, plus all the coaches and backroom staff for each.

Sorry.

What about English premiere and RU ?

I think the English clubs are salary capped at £5M, so nearly €6M each - I assume that is just for the players, the support staff will be on top of that

The RFU pay their international players separately - their players got £75K per head for the 6N this year.

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Taupe 14 watchers, can anyone tell me how Garbisi and Mori got on today?

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Taupe 14 watchers, can anyone tell me how Garbisi and Mori got on today?

Garbisi was excellent bar a couple of dead ball kicks and one bad pass.

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I don’t think there has been more than 2 passes strung together by either team in the last 30 minutes of the Clermont v La Rochelle game…

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I don’t think there has been more than 2 passes strung together by either team in the last 30 minutes of the Clermont v La Rochelle game…

2 clueless sides with no brains, terrible discipline/bad attitudes and sh*te coaches. Somehow LaR contrive to lose for the 5th time in a row a game there for the taking.

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Taupe 14 watchers, can anyone tell me how Garbisi and Mori got on today?

Garbisi was excellent bar a couple of dead ball kicks and one bad pass.

Thanks

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3 sides now where the management must be under serious threat. All 3 have big budgets and serious player resources but all have in common
- consistent failure to execute the basics
- poor decision making
- terrible discipline

In the frame =

Quesada/Stade Francais
- last
- with T14's biggest budget
- and he's been there long enough and consistently failed to deliver

ROG/La Rochelle
- 2nd last
- mid budget
- has some excuse the helm hasn't been his alone for long but can't see Merling putting up with it for long

Jonno Gibbes/ ASM
- 5th from bottom but only courtesy of home win against LaR
- jumped ship from LaR into an underperforming ASM and has seemingly made them worse

Paris and LaR have a further problem in a bun fight for the worst half back pairings in the comp. Given the conveyor belt of quality SHs and FHs that come from NZ, it's amazing that LaR managed to sign not one, but two of the sh*ttest in TKB and West.
Paris has Coville at SH who is so bad that whenever he's selected, I invariably pick Paris to lose in the FR. Segonds is an equally miserable FH who if he stood any deeper would be in Narnia. LaR finishes last because Paris can call upon Sanchez AND West is the worst dead ball kicker in T14..... and you aren't winning anything if you don't take your 3 pointers.

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Taupe 14 watchers, can anyone tell me how Garbisi and Mori got on today?

Garbisi was excellent bar a couple of dead ball kicks and one bad pass.

Thanks

Tommaso/Tommy/Tam Allen got player of the match for Harlequins yesterday, though I didn't see it.

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Garbisi was excellent bar a couple of dead ball kicks and one bad pass.

Thanks

Tommaso/Tommy/Tam Allen got player of the match for Harlequins yesterday, though I didn't see it.

Played very well considering how little time he's had there. Fitted in to the Quins style very comfortably

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Thanks

Tommaso/Tommy/Tam Allen got player of the match for Harlequins yesterday, though I didn't see it.

Played very well considering how little time he's had there. Fitted in to the Quins style very comfortably

Two Italian 10s playing well at the same time is a sign of the apocalypse

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New one, bothers me seeing altrad on it. Looks like the squadra Azzurro blue.

Awful crap and said I'd never buy another one after the FFR decided to permit advertising on them anyway.

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Taupe 14 watchers, can anyone tell me how Garbisi and Mori got on today?

I see Mori got himself a try today

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It's great to see these guys go to France and play well, the last few Italians who went over ended up bombing completely

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It's great to see these guys go to France and play well, the last few Italians who went over ended up bombing completely

Garbisi needs to sort out his dead ball kicking. Was expensive for his side in the game today in a 1pt loss.

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It's great to see these guys go to France and play well, the last few Italians who went over ended up bombing completely

Garbisi needs to sort out his dead ball kicking. Was expensive for his side in the game today in a 1pt loss.

Let's hope he sorts out that aspect of his game, how did he play otherwise?

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It's great to see these guys go to France and play well, the last few Italians who went over ended up bombing completely

Garbisi needs to sort out his dead ball kicking. Was expensive for his side in the game today in a 1pt loss.

Let's hope he sorts out that aspect of his game, how did he play otherwise?

Good and scored a try. It's the kicking off tee and some out of hand that needs improvement.

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Thanks! Bordeaux looked like they should have scored a couple more!

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ST v ASM game was weird. Massive improvement in performance from les Januards with some serious commitment being shown all round for the first time in a year IMHO.

They could have and probably should have won the game.
- Not clear how a neck tackle on O'Connor 2m from the tryline which results in a pen and a yellow card for Holmes is not a pen try.

BUT
- You'll struggle to see a bigger lineout train wreck than this game by ASM. Lost of buggered up at least 2/3rd of their throws.
- In many ways, Lopez and N'Tamack are similar: neither has much game management and tactical and dead ball kicking is ordinary. The difference is
N'Tamack offers a gain-line threat whereas all Lopez does now is stand semi-deep and shuffle the ball on.
- That man Dupont again. Scored one try which broke ASM. Early in the game, his opposite Bezy charged on a break.... only to be stopped dead by Dupont, picked up
like a rag doll and carried many metres backwards: unbelievable strength for such a small man.
- No idea WTF was up with Fritz Lee but must have dropped the ball in contact half a dozen times.

Can't see anyone stopping ST winning the Brennus this season.

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Speculation about Jalibert on the run to Racing

https://www.rugbyrama.fr/rugby/transfer ... tory.shtml

Don't know when Flake is out of contract in Paris.

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Speculation about Jalibert on the run to Racing

https://www.rugbyrama.fr/rugby/transfer ... tory.shtml

Don't know when Flake is out of contract in Paris.

Everything is fine, we have Trin-duc now and Plisson is looking for a club.

Finn, 2022 i think

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I see you remember my feelings for Trinduc, him and huget were the 2 EdF players I truly hated. Plisson is just an average FH. So far hadn’t the chance to get pissed off by ftd as he stays on the bench.

Marti said that Jalibert is the priority for the next 4 years, they are negotiating €€€ right now, things they didn’t do to keep Radradra or other factorX players. He also comes from the Ubb school, I think/hope he’ll stay until his contract ends (2023).

I never hated Tin-Duck: just considered him a poor FH. Huget must be close the most dislikeable **** in T14 in the last decade.

I hope Jalibert stays too. UBB has done all the work on him and (as you predicted) he is now clearly the best FH in France. Just need Galthie to allow him to play at intl level the same way he does at club.

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This ref is awful, every time he has some controversial calls that change the outcome of the games , like Minery and Cardona .

Did you see the end of Racing/Lyon? Tanga comes in so far offside into the ruck to prevent Lyon scoring a potentially match winning try that he might as well have been wearing a black shirt!!!! Home town reffing at its best.

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Watching T14 after NPC is like eating a turd after a Michelin * meal. LOU v UBB a case in point. 2 sides with plenty of intls in perfect conditions:
- the handling is sh*t
- decision making abject
- no-one can catch a high ball
- discipline reaching Arg levels

The incredible thing is decent NZ players come in and you can visibly see their abilities ebb away game after game.

Coaching remains medieval, 3rd world standard. Sides repeatedly getting hammered against 14 players.

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Shameless plug as we are back playing at last (1ère Série)

A win despite a completely messed up 1st half 40-29

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Lopez out on his way to BO assuming Guillon signs the release.

BO look like they might have just enough to stay up. Whereas USAP are going to finish last.

Pressure must be piling up on both Quesada and ROG after more abject efforts by Paris and LaR at the weekend.
Ditto now too for Collazo at RCT who were simply abysmal in losing to USAP last week and were bummed at
Castres. Rumours that Azema is in the mix.

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Lopez out on his way to BO assuming Guillon signs the release.

BO look like they might have just enough to stay up. Whereas USAP are going to finish last.

Pressure must be piling up on both Quesada and ROG after more abject efforts by Paris and LaR at the weekend.
Ditto now too for Collazo at RCT who were simply abysmal in losing to USAP last week and were bummed at
Castres. Rumours that Azema is in the mix.

Azema is working with the Dragons (the XIII) at the moment.

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Lopez out on his way to BO assuming Guillon signs the release.

BO look like they might have just enough to stay up. Whereas USAP are going to finish last.

Pressure must be piling up on both Quesada and ROG after more abject efforts by Paris and LaR at the weekend.
Ditto now too for Collazo at RCT who were simply abysmal in losing to USAP last week and were bummed at
Castres. Rumours that Azema is in the mix.

Azema is working with the Dragons (the XIII) at the moment.

Didn't know he'd gone Treiziste!

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BO - ST was an interesting game until Dupont arrived, his “motto” on ne va pas y passer la journée couldn’t have been more appropriate this weekend.
Biarritz’ infirmary list is getting longer every weekend, might be difficult for them if they keep this rate of injured players.

One more time Ovale Masqué at work, this guy is good.


Nakarawa when they explain to him that he signed with Toulon and not with Toulouse

https://actu.fr/sports/rugby/top-14/rug ... 01401.html

Yup: player of the year proved the point. I just laughed when he ran it in: you know it's coming but stopping it is another thing.

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Lopez out on his way to BO assuming Guillon signs the release.

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After RCT v CAB last night (rugby cancer), all T14v coaches should be forced to watch this:

https://www.provincial.rugby/bunnings-n ... sman-2021/

As an aside, the way all the T14 sides are playing, they are going to get bummed in Europe.

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You are right. So far I haven’t enjoyed this season at all. I stopped watching UBB-Montpol at the 60th minute. Seeing only Toulouse/Pau 1st half was enough. I never watch toulon at home (awful club and fans).

Can’t wait for the Autumn Inter, got an IPTV (from someone here, highly recommend it ) I think I’m going to switch to ProD2 for a while.

How does IPTV work? I mean in terms of access/subscription to something like Pro2? Assumed you'd still have the problem of unreliable streams that you get with a browser?


Belleau had an absolute stinker. RCT fans booed the players off the pitch. Might as well have been boos for both sides because had CAB shown one ounce of attacking intent, they could have won.

Do you know what happened to the guy who used to lead Pilou-Pilou? Noticed it was someone different this time.

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If you are interested I’ll pm you

Please do.

PS I thought Cedric had a parlour in Toulon and that he just turned up at games to do the Pilou. Not sure how being at Mayol would prevent him working. Maybe he left because RCT became sh*t again.....

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If you are interested I’ll pm you

Please do.

PS I thought Cedric had a parlour in Toulon and that he just turned up at games to do the Pilou. Not sure how being at Mayol would prevent him working. Maybe he left because RCT became sh*t again.....

Did you get my pm ? I tried twice and he doesn’t show in sent. Do you have it on “not allow”?

It's all weird. I got it and when I sent a reply, it said recipient doesn't exist! Guess it's a part of the system ASMO needs to do a bit of tweaking on.

BTW: I'm banned from PR to can't contact the guy through that mechanism. You'd need to PM me his email.

Cheers

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I don’t go there, he’s here on NPR

Cheers

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Premier Sports pick Brive v LaR.

Was always going to be the worst game of the w/e and it's not failing us.