In the event of a defeat by the Blues against Italy, the French XV will be eliminated from the World Cup.
Questioned via Eurosport, consultant Jean-Baptiste Lafond believes that this scenario is unimaginable.
He really doesn’t see the Blues missing out on this match and being eliminated like this. Extract:
“I won’t come on the show anymore if France is eliminated! The show ends! In any case, the players who don’t play will be happy to go home! I think of Hastoy, Chalureau, Gros… It would be the best day of their lives I think. As for the rest… It’s so unimaginable, that I’m going to let Mourad Boudjellal finish because it’s not possible. Galthié likes training the French team and he can only train the French team. I think that even if we lose against Italy and are eliminated, he will stay because the cream is good!
But we can’t miss out onn match for 80 minutes. Italy is still bruised and there will be a reaction but it will not last 80 minutes because they do not have the physical means to hold on. »
For his part, the former president of the Rugby Club Toulonnais, Mourad Boudjellal believes that in the event of premature elimination, the coach Fabien Galthié will have to resign and leave his post.
He particularly remembers the Top 14 quarter-final lost by Toulon, at home against Lyon. A match that the RCT could not lose, with Fabien Galthié as manager. Extract:
“Firing Fabien Galthié is complicated because he has a contract and we have to pay him 5 years of salary. It’s going to be expensive. This will be the opportunity for Florian Grill to say that it is Bernard Laporte’s fault. Above all, it would be a disaster for the French team and for French rugby in general. Rugby is on the rise in France because we are finding a new audience. And a premature elimination would cause the bellows to fall completely and that would be very bad for rugby in general. I don’t know if we would recover.
Now, if that happens, it will be tar and feathers for Fabien Galthié and he will have to stop because it would be his failure. But I do not believe it. He would have to tear down the walls and he would no longer be able to take public transport. He would be the Raymond Domenech of rugby. But this scenario is impossible! Afterwards, zero risk does not exist!
Now, I’m going to scare you: the last time Fabien Galthié played a quarter-final, I was his president, it was in the Top 14 with Toulon. We played against Lyon. Lyon, it was impossible to lose because we were playing at home and Lyon had 15 injured. So it was Lyon’s reserve team. In the squad, I had Chris Ashton who had beaten the number of tries scored in the Top 14. And against Lyon, he didn’t score anything. He missed everything and the team missed out. The unlikely scenario happened. We drew and were eliminated. I think we would have given the same speech given the compositions of the two teams. So there it was, time to scare. »
2023-10-05 08:46:59
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