Guy Noves (XV of France manager): “They will leave there the skin” – The Équipe.fr

Thursday, his first team composition announcement, the tricolor manager Guy Noves had no sheets or leaves. Sitting next to his captain, Guilhem Guirado, he waited 11 hours battery in the amphitheater of CNR Marcoussis to shatter fifteen names, starting with the right pillar, that is to say, the number three. Then he called those “ that are likely to return during a match “, rather than to call them substitutes
No introductory word. Guy Noves s’ then lent a little tense, the game of questions and answers. Regarding Virimi Vakatawa, specialist rugby 7s launched large international hot fifteen, “ we do not have certainty, but we want to see faster in real terms than to believe in him without ever giving him luck. But honestly, it’s not a gamble. It certainly has shortcomings, it does not master everything at his post, but soon he will play the better “

And Noves added:.” As the thirty five players who have made the three courses, it has the profile to play in the spaces and in the intervals ‘what lift a veil on the style of play advocated by the new staff. But rather than clarify this game, the manager immediately evokes the players: “ Whatever happens, it is certain that they will give their best, they will leave there the skin; that, I guarantee you. “A vocation offensive team placed around a very young hinge (Bézy-Plisson),” young, yes, but that shows on the field every weekend an undeniable talent who fits the profile of the game we want to set up . “

” I do not want to hear what happened in the previous Cup the world “

Four new so (Jedrasiak, Bézy, Vakatawa, Danty), and no fear that this new wave misses Saturday. “ must start a day. The most important thing is to be well accompanied loose Noves. This is the start of a new mandate, we will not wait three years to get them started. “If defeat against Italy,” we do not hide behind that excuse. If these four players are there is that they have potential. And when a young person has the ability to play, we must align . “
A third of Toulouse (Maestri, Picamoles, Bézy, Fickou and Médard) in the starting XV, it helpful to quickly get the message. Yes and no, if one believes Noves’ With the staff, when we drew up the list, we are not parties to this idea of ​​having specially of Toulouse. True, they are close to what we want to do on the field, but later perhaps there will be only three … “
However, now that he has announced his first team composition, do not talk about the last World Cup to the new manager. It irritates. “What matters is not what the players did yesterday. I did not want to talk about the next World Cup, as I did not want to hear what happened in the previous . “

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