Top 14: Frédéric Michalak future consultant at RC Toulon?

Rugby Club Toulonnais has had a particularly complicated start to the season with a disappointing balance sheet after five days (only one victory, one draw and three defeats).

The Var club, which remains on two setbacks (Perpignan, Castres) is only 11th in the standings.

To try to stop this negative spiral, Frédéric Michalak, the former international opener (77 selections, 436 points) passed by the RCT between 2012 and 2016, could integrate the staff of Patrice Collazo as a consultant from the month of December , according to information from

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Discussions between former number 10 and Bernard Lemaître, the Toulon president, would be well advanced.

Currently in a fortnight in a hotel room in Australia due to health restrictions, Frédéric Michalak spoke in the columns of the

his return to French rugby.

What is certain is that it will not be a full time coaching position.

But rather consulting, two and a half days a week, to help a club to structure itself towards high performance

Frédéric Michalak

“It's not sure whether it's Toulouse. I am in contact with other clubs, it will be decided very soon,

he confided.

Last June, the former icon of Stade Toulousain and top scorer in the history of the XV of France, who was then assistant coach of the Australian rugby union club Roosters, made the trip to Sydney with the XV of France.

At 38, Michalak lived with his family in Australia, where he worked on individual technique within the renowned Sydney Roosters club, winners of the NRL, the rugby league championship in 2018 and 2019. The Blues of Fabien Galthié had signed their first success with the Wallabies since 1990 and conceded two short losses with a team deprived of its usual executives.

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