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This is so crazy that deserves to be posted here. Tomorrow evening (friday), Toulon are hosting Paris for the Amlin Challenge Cup (tier-2 european competition). The big news is that someone you all know will be playing centre for Stade Français. Michael Cheika decided to play George Smith at...

That's a fair point. I went with the positions they were mostly playing on, but I think Phelan is more likely to play them in their prefered position. I also have doubts about Fernández's defence at 12. I do like Bosch at 10 though. Re: Poirot, we have a lot of young losseheads coming (look...

Hi all. As a Pumas fan myself, I thought it could be useful to add the french perspective on a few players, as in the SH few people can see them regularly. I don't get to see the Pampas' games, so I'll only comment on European-based players. Hookers: With Mario Ledesma having been such a...

How to score while doing everything wrong. Gilroy should have passed that ball at least on two occasions, "it is a bad example for kids", as PdV would say.

I've read here and elsewhere people saying Priestland had a bad game... His kicking was poor but his ball-in-hand game was outstanding!! He uses the weight or the speed of his backline, depending on the situation, to perfection, with hard runners as Roberts, Davies and Cuthbert plus an...

Squad just announced: 15. Médard; 14. Clerc, 13. Rougerie, 12. Fofana, 11. Malzieu; 10. Trinh-Duc, 9. Yachvili; 7. Bonnaire, 8. Picamoles, 6. Dusautoir (cap.); 5. Nallet, 4. Papé; 3. Mas, 2. Servat, 1. Debaty. Major call to play Debaty from the start

Actually, Paul Derbyshire was born in Livorno, Italy, and has played his entire career in Italy (except one season in France). Some other very italien-sounding names are actually from Argentina: Castrogiovanni, Canale, Orquera, Parisse (Parisse is actually an italian who is happenned to be born...

In a very Lièvremont-esque move, PSA called in David Attoub for the matchday 23 (only 7 will be in the bench, though). Also, after Millo-Chlusky's injury, Nallet was called up, and then selected over Pierre (I'm ok with that). The group of 23 is: Props: Poux, Mas, Debaty, Attoub Hookers...

Gary Botha is a huge step down from Servetw whenever he comes on for Toulouse. The guy can't scrummage, can't thriw a straight lineout, an is very slow around the park.... I reckon he needs to regain form, he was a Bok after all...

I lived many years in Chile, and there rugby has a tradition of being an elite sport, played mostly by posh boys in english schools. Some of them go on to play after high school, but most have a very high opportunity cost: they go to law school, become MDs or take over daddy's business. Those...

The best (imo) highlights are in http://www.youtube.com/user/Aeeriel?feature=watch Kind of like TTRugbyvids for France Also, www.ercrugby.com posts highlights of some games, and most french clubs post highlights on their sites a couple of days after each match...

Toulouse - Gloucester: Burgo did very well, except for a few missed passes in the first half. Gary Botha got bullied in the scrum, Servat was a huge improvement when he came on. Toulouse have room to improve, they were missing at least five internationals. And when the team settles and starts...

I'm quite excited about this year's cup. There are a few teams, especially french, that have enough quality and depth to be competitive both locally and in Europe. I'll be cheering for all the french teams, although I'm a little less fond of Racing and Clermont. Right now I'm really enjoying...

So far, the RWC has followed a pattern 3N/5N/3N/5N/3N/6N/3N/6N/Japan, which could be considered as a "3N" as it is in their "area of influence" (Or, put differently, Japan is in the SH rugbystically), so I think that 2023 will go to the NH. I first thought the russian bid was ridicoulous, now I...

Shane Williams scored 58 test tries, so far, in a team that has won around half the games in that time. Other great wingers (Lomu, Campese, Robinson, Rokocoko, etc.) scored many tries in very dominant teams. They would've probably scored many anyhow, and they were also one of the reasons of...

I can understand that none of the posters want to say this, but Dusautoir should be nowhere near that list. Most people here didn't see the 6N, but I can tell you that it was Dusautoir who captained France to a first ever loss to Italy and to a not-too-flattering loss to England. If a frenchman...

Argentina's Juan José Imhoff signed with Racing Métro.

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I don't think I've seen Doussain play much at 10 for Toulouse, though. I think when Bézy and him were playing together, it was Bézy who was playing 10. (though I admit I get confused between the two... shame on me!)

Is it only me or Higgers wasn't binding and it should have been a penalty try? Parisse was just gutted.