He was the first member of Fabien Galthié's staff to have decided for his future.
In April, the performance director of the XV of France Thibault Giroud had committed for four seasons with Racing 92, which he was to join after the 2023 World Cup. But in October, rebound: the club of Hauts-de -Seine announced the end of the collaboration even before its start, highlighting "methodological differences" on the missions that the boss of the physical preparation of the Blues would have had with the Englishman Stuart Lancaster, future coach of Sky and White who joined in September.
Present at a press conference on Wednesday in Marcoussis where the tricolors are gathered in preparation for the November tour, Thibault Giroud spoke about this common reversal.
“I don't have much to tell you.
I was engaged with Racing, but by talking with Stuart Lancaster, we found that we were not on the same methodology, he described.
It became difficult to move forward together.
There were no other issues, or human issues, it was just a matter of work method and expertise.
We preferred to stop there and move on.
»
"There could not be two caliphs" for Jacky Lorenzetti
In an interview granted Friday to Parisian-Today in France, the president of Racing 92 Jacky Lorenzetti had given his version of the volte-face.
"Stuart was frank and direct: it didn't stick between them and he told us right away," explained the leader.
There could not be two caliphs.
The athlete's boss will be Stuart and no one else.
Everything must be clear and everyone must agree to create a new dynamic.
»
The rating of the one who restored the cash to the XV of France, on a series of ten straight victories, remains high and should allow him to bounce back quickly for the post-World Cup in France.
Two other assistants of Fabien Galthié, the coach in charge of the attack Laurent Labit and his counterpart of the conquest Karim Ghezal, will for their part take control of the Stade Français after this event.
