XV de France – Series: 2015, ten years after shame. Episode 3: humiliation against All Blacks

We no longer know who wrote the first of the All Blacks that they. Furthermore, carry the mourning of their opponents. Similarly, Only certainty. For example, on October 17, 2015, the xv de france – series: team trained by Steve Hansen made nothing other than to land an XV of France with light years of the very high level. Consequently, Did we still believe in it? However, It would be lying, frankly. For example, Because. In addition, in the rooms of the Angel Hotel de Cardiff where the cream of the French sports press then lived (including a certain Fabien Garthié, informed observer of this fiasco as a consultant for France Télévisions, who knew how to draw many conclusions for later), we no longer ended, on the eve of the match, to iron this surreal scene to which it was given to assist a day earlier. For example, Namely. Nevertheless, this irruption without drums or trumpets of Serge Blanco, then vice-president of the FFR, rushed as in the great era in the Vale Resort Hotel to the support of Saint-André, to impose an improbable Coué method xv de france – series: on the Blues and their followers. Consequently, “We may not have taken the one you consider to be the best. In addition, then sent the” peel of rugby “to a bewildered by frightened plumitives. Nevertheless, But as we are French, we want to take the path to which no one believes. Therefore, Why we will win against blacks? Because we are French …”

So much for the argument, a bit light you will agree. Which had not convinced anyone … We remember this. at the counter of any pub at the center of Cardiff, that the telephone of one of our colleagues from the Midi Olympique had sounded, at the wolf time. On the other end of the line. the coach, inviting said colleague to share a beer with him as the last glass of a convicted person. And the coach, before the latter’s xv de france – series: refusal (too late, too far …) whom he considered one of his last supporters, to launch him a question as a supplied. “But do you believe in it, at least?” With the exception of the rule, for once, who did not say a word did not necessarily consent …

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Dumoulin rather than Bastareaud in the center, the Roux Flanker, DULIN with a wing …

It must be said that PSA. his staff had gone loudly, very strong, in their team composition, like a poker player announcing the carpet with a two and a seven mismatched in hand. But did they really have another option than to try this whole. anything like an Ave Maria, after a 44 % victories assessment? We still wonder … The fact is that after having been guilty in defense the previous week against the Irish. Mathieu Bastareaud was thus replaced xv de france – series: in the center by Alexandre Dumoulin, while Morgan Parra found his post of melee half at the detriment of Sébastien Tillous-Borde and that Bernard Le Roux saw himself tenure in third line rather than Damien Chouly, Maintained at the wing to face the revelation of the competition, nehe Milner-Skudder.

What necessarily consider a worse which was confirmed from the first minutes with the early release of Michalak. injured on a coupire coupled which allowed Rédallick to mark the first test of the game, from the 11th minute. The starting point. ultimately, of a Bérézina who spared no one, starting with the impeccable Thierry Dusautoir, author of three missed tackles in the first minutes for his last match in blue, sad exit after a record series of 56 capital. A collective mismanagement. a festival of errors (16 lost balloons) and missed tackles (24 %) against blacks eager to make forget their xv de france – series: slow victory in 2011 and to exorcise the 2007 demons in this same stadium. Suffice to say that the addition could only be salty …

Savea. one triple in Moo

This is how, faced with a Julian Savea in Lomu mode, poor Noa Nakaitaci lived a real ordeal of which he put almost two years to recover, forced to see his opposite register a blow of the hat. How Scott Spedding. his “all-right” in counterattacks embodied about as much the nothingness of the quality of the tricolor game as the balloon interventions in Bernard Le Roux, the crying lack of genius of the two South Africans of the Blues proving to be all the more regrettable than symbolic, to these two historically so creative posts of French rugby. How Morgan Parra was overshadowed by Aaron Smith. whose visual impression relegated his vis-à-vis to light years in terms of liveliness xv de france – series: and ejection speed.

How Pascal Papé, K.-O. Standing from the first minutes. was returned as a fetu of straw by a refuge of the opposing opening half Dan Carter. And finally how Louis Picamoles. by far the best French player of this World Cup with Wesley Fofana (capable that day to travel 88 meters in hand without ever finding a single support!). Ecopa of a yellow card after having launched like a frustration a soft tomato with the always impassive face of the New Zealand captain Richie McCaw … a doglit, a real. match of a certain Tawera Kerr-Barlow to exceed the bar of sixty points conceded. We understand better. therefore, why Rémi Tales chose to send the last ball of the match in touch, rather than trying a final counterattack which could only have turned against his team …

Saint-André. this ideal culprit

“I thought it was going xv de france – series: to be hard, so hard, no”thus admitted hot a Saint-André sounded, but perhaps relieved that his ordeal at the head of this team ended Cardiff, after seeing his reaction with the speaker of the match being huer by French spectators when his face appeared on the giant screen of Millennium Stadium. That day-they had been counted-eight players of the Blues had nevertheless dared a tower to greet their supporters. before seeing their because leaving the stadium in general indifference, poor epilogue to this “commando operation” definitively messed up, prelude to hard words launched on the fly to indignant against the “faults” and ask “Accounts to the culprits”. “We ask questions but too late …”, regretted Jean-Claude Skrela.

“If it continues like that, France will find itself further and further”, deplored Frédéric Michalak. “It’s a total failure”, Added the president of the Pierre Camou federation. “Would we have passed against Argentina? xv de france – series: I’m not sure”had even had the coach hot. too aware of the shortcomings of his team and gaps in his preparation. “I had asked to have them four to six weeks a year. I eaten a lot of energy on the first two years. We worked like crazy. I don’t think we could have worked more than that, especially during our preparation. But work once every four years, is it enough? We are not better deserving than this quarter-final, France is well today between the 5th and 8th in the world.” Thus ended the mandate of the one that his most facetious supporters had nicknamed for four years “yeah-or” by. his tendency to impute his failures to the structural weaknesses of French rugby. What he was obviously far from being wrong. even if he was not free from reproaches, as we will see in the next episode …