“Enjoy the All Blacks, France!” At the foot of Queens Vault pub, Irish bear teasing recorded this message on a sign before the start of the match. It is not known if the Blues are going to enjoy it, but they may enjoy Saturday night in Cardiff face of New Zealanders who will be the favorites Grandissimes the meeting. “At the same time I had to play eleven or twelve times in my career, and I’ve never been favorites in the team. Yet I managed to beat them, and in 2011 in the final, we were very close, Captain Thierry Dusautoir breath. The biggest challenge of this World Cup awaits. “ ” We’re still in the race, it is not eliminated tonight timidly tries Philippe Saint-André. We have to stay together. We’ll have to prepare for a great fight. “
A time to climb the summit, Yoann Maestri, the second line of the Blues, took refuge behind the clichés: “It is even beefier than Ireland. New Zealand is the ogre, the world champion in 2011, the best team in the world in 2015. It is to the wall, it will raise its head, a surprise. For the younger generation, as the intermediary, mine, it will be the best game of our lives. “ Before shiver with the fever of Black Saturday, it will erase the Irish malaise. “Even though it was not a playoff game, it’s a big disappointment continues turret Stade Toulousain. We had to show heart that had progressed. . It is not got to keep the ball more than three times the game “ Brice Dulin, back converted winger is in the same vein: ” We’ll have to take over the balloon, which is more ambitious “ Wesley Fofana, rather blasé. ” Anyway, no one sees us winners “
Tillous-Borde.: “If we are lax, it will take forty”
The scrumhalf Sebastien Tillous-Borde reassures us in the mixed zone: “Do not do this head -There, I’m not dead. We have a match against the All Blacks. “ Lapsus or not, it appears to the quarterfinals as a last stand. He continues: “If we are lax like today, we will take forty [points, note]. They have a very good first game against the Argentines. “
And then the Toulon poured into the speech you will hear all week on radio, on TV, on your sites and your favorite daily: “Frankly, I’m not sure it would have been easier against Argentina. In the quarterfinals, all matches are tough. That may be a good thing to play the All Blacks now. If you’re not ready for this meeting, you will never be it in your career. It’s better to quickly erase the meeting, to put it in the trash, rather than mulling over three days. In general, when you’re failing in a game area on a game, you’re not the next weekend. We will be more attentive. The ground game, it’s a state of mind, such as defense. “
Less than talent in 2007
Tillous-Borde said it with a stroke after a major defeat, with a crazy insurance – it’s not even safe to be renewed next Saturday as the third-row Damien Chouly and others. But where was expected on traditional “culture of XV of France of achievement” , he prefers to sweep the exploits of yesteryear face the Neo-Z, the half of 1999, a quarter 2007 already Cardiff “. Each team writes its history for us to do so without asking elders what they did eight years ago” This week, with colleagues there would do better to look at the VHS of the past with humility, the fireplace warms the cozy living room of his hotel in Newport. Or perhaps he simply seized this team in a limited set enferrée destruction had not much to do in this test.
In 2007, the Blues have created the feeling with guys who were the best in the world in their positions at a specific time in their career: Vincent Clerc, Yannick Jauzion, Cedric Heymans, Serge Betsen, Imanol Harinordoquy, Fabien Pelous, Raphael Ibanez, Pieter de Villiers … Who can Today, in this XV of France, claim a place on the bench Blacks? Maestri, Slimani or Picamoles, Fofana Bastareaud or having a good day? The last two will face a pair of monstrous centers, composed of Conrad Smith and Ma’a Nonu. “I do not remember exactly what I did in 1999 or even in 2007, Fofana concludes. I followed little, I was not too thoroughly inside and out. “ Saturday, it will be, or it will end up at the bottom.
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