often febrile for two years at the end of the meeting, the Blues worked this aspect upstream of the autumn tour – Argentina on Saturday, November 6th, then Georgia and New Zealand.
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“We start with the end, in fact.” For almost two years he has taken the destiny of the Male Rugby France team, Fabien Galthié will gladly use imagined flights. In this case, the Lotocy technician wants to make everyone understand for the tricolor XV to better manage the end of his games.
This is the message he has made to the Blues, gathered at the end of October at the National Rugby Center of Marcoussis, a few days before the start of the autumn tour that will see them confront Successively Argentina, Saturday, November 6, Georgia (Sunday, November 14) and New Zealand (Saturday, November 20). Because the finding is cruel. “Since we took the team of France, except the game in Scotland [at the six-nations tournament of 2020, 28-17], all our defeats have played on the last action, we lost on the ends of matches, “explained in early July the French coach. Faced with Australia, the blues had just allowed, in the second seconds, a victory that seemed promised to them (21-23).
The evil is not new. From the first game under the leadership of the new staff, Antoine Dupont had cadarled at the end of the game, out of the ball a few seconds too early and offering the English a last balloon – enhanced by a penalty. If the blues had finally carried away, the three points conceded in the Money Time had cost them the title at the end of the six nations tournament.
“In eighteen games played, we have six defeats, including five on the latest actions, while we led,” Fabien Galthié Fabien. While his group starts his third season under his orders, the technician would like to erase this stamp. The supervision of the XV of France rolled up the sleeves.
End of match simulations
With his acolyte Raphael Ibanez (the general manager), the coach assumes a methodical approach. After the project of the Defense, “resolved” by the recruitment of the English specialist Shaun Edwards, the French coach strives to that of the Money Time, in recent minutes where time flows in slow motion, the organizations calend and the heads paint to see clear.
In an international rugby where the gaps between the best teams have the thickness of a blade of grass, the binomial at the head of the Blues has never stopped that everything is played with a detail. To eliminate imperfections, the staff has concocted practice. Wednesday, October 27, under the sun of Marcoussis, after rude physical sequences under the guidance of the Performance Director, Thibault Giroud, a scenario “from the imagination abundant Fabien” – the words are from Ibanez – waiting for the blues . “The guys, we play the e minute, you are conducted five points and you have a touch in your favor within 22 meters”, exposed the coach to the presumed holders.
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