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Where was the red haired back five player (very young, possibly Lyon captain) who looked great in the 6N?
Pasty_Spumante-
Lambey, he is indeed playing for Lyon. Considered in the squad during the WC preparation but dropped and not taken into the squad afterwards. I quire rate him I think he's not the strongest and would suffer against a very strong pack, but has a great mindset and has good ball carrying, passing and line-out skills, and compensate with good tackle technique quite low.
I thought it was a pity to drop him and keep Leroux as I am really not a fan of Leroux, but he did surprise me yesterday I have to admit, he played a strong game.We have some second row that are good club players, but I think not many that can pretend to be constantly international-level players.
Another example to illustrate both our lack of important second row players and our great managing ideas, Brunel made Iturria who is a very good player change position at Clermont last season 2018/2019 (from second row to backrow), with mostly success as he was pretty good ; then during the WC preparation considered him back in second row to end by judging that he's not good enough at second row... a position that they asked his club to make him change.
Similar to insisting on trying regularly players on the wing that are not wingers (like Fickou for example, whereas as an example he was good at his position of centre yesterday).
Tbf they also had good ideas as they are the ones that made Penaud switch from centre to wing (and he was good but I guess he also would have been at centre position)
paulbiche
Our people seem to focus on the picture from Peyper to try and forget the fact that we completely fucked up the game OURSELVES with poor tactics and blatant errors. We could have won any day even with the red with a little more brain. I bet someone like Serge Simon is so irritated to realize we're fucking dumb that he tries to blame the referee for something that insignificant. It is not like Joubert that robbed both France and Scotland on 2 world cup isn't it?
Personally I'v got no problem with the picture at all, if it can help our players in general to be less dumb regarding to game plan, game management, and player situational/ tactical awareness then I'm happy it came out.
Very dumb and poor error from Vaha, just hope that it will benefit him in the future and that not everyone will try to bury him, he's not that disciplined when he plays but I am not sure it is a player that is as mean/limited as Lavanini for example who seem to get a red almost every year. We don't have many options on second row, and even less with his profile, so just hoping he will progress and that's all!
Most of us ourselves did not think we would reach quarter finals anyway, why everyone's being so angry?