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Galthié, « c’est un peu comme une lettre administrative »

Head coach of France Fabien Galthie looks on during the warm-up before the Rugby World Cup France 2023 match between France and New Zealand (All Blacks) at Stade de France on September 8, 2023 in Saint-Denis near Paris, France. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

Que cachent les mots et expressions, mais aussi le style de communication du sélectionneur du XV de France ? Dans son édition du 19 septembre 2023, Le Parisien – Aujourd’hui en France a demandé à une sémiolinguiste, Elodie Laye Mielczareck, de se pencher sur le cas Fabien Galthié.

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Première observation, la distance. Avec ses grosses lunettes noires, l’homme installe d’emblée une distance avec ses interlocuteurs. La sémiolinguiste parle de « coffre-fort », de « carapace », voire de « froideur ».

Si Galthié n’est volontairement pas dans la séduction avec les journalistes, il n’est pas moins dans l’empathie lorsqu’il est question de ses joueurs. « Il a l’air émotionnel, plutôt authentique », relève-t-elle. « On sent l’émotion vécue, la tristesse dans ses mots et sur son visage », lorsqu’il s’agit par exemple d’annoncer le forfait de Romain Ntamack pour la Coupe du Monde.

Le ton monocorde qu’il utilise volontiers lorsqu’il s’adresse à la presse, son analyse froide livrée lorsqu’on lui demande, se brisent lorsqu’il évoque ses joueurs.

Deuxième observation, l’homme est précis. La sémiolinguiste note l’emploi régulier d’expressions telles « ce que je veux dire », « une fois de plus » qui lui donne un côté très pédagogue. Comme s’il tenait à être bien compris, malgré ses formules perchées et ses analogies propres à son univers.

« Il y a une vision de transmission, analytique, très procédurale avec une énergie froide », note Elodie Laye Mielczareck. Elle n’hésite pas à aller plus loin dans son propos en convoquant une image étonnante : « C’est un peu comme une lettre administrative ; il faut la relire plusieurs fois pour tout intégrer. »

Troisième observation, son obsession du temps avec la désormais mythique « flèche du temps », comme si tout était calibré, prévu, annoncé. « Il utilise énormément le champ des idées, de la métaphore, des images », constate la sémiolinguiste en évoquant ses allusions au divin.

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Ainsi revient cette phrase lâchée au détour d’une conférence de presse : « La première qualité de ce groupe est que [ses membres] défendent la ligne. Ils défendent la ligne avec leur corps, leur cœur et leur âme. »

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I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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