“Look for a strong man to hold the blue house.
» The ad has not yet been published, but it has already been running for a while in the minds of Fabien Galthié, the coach of the XV of France, of those who surround him within his staff and more generally of all the thinking heads of French rugby.
In more technical words, good right pillars, basic players in any closed scrum, are rare in France.
Behind Uini Atonio, a colossus of New Zealand origin weighing 145 kg and 1.97 m, who is playing overtime at almost 34 years old even though he had signaled the end of his international career after the World Cup, the next generation is not is not really revealed.
Neither Dorian Aldegheri nor Demba Bamba, often injured, nor Mohamed Haouas, convicted by the courts for domestic violence, nor Sipili Falatea have established themselves as sufficiently reliable understudies to become number 1 in the position.
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