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France fullback Melvyn Jaminet requests release from club - report

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France star Melvyn Jaminet is set to leave his Perpignan contract early, after requesting a release from the club.

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According to L’Indpendent in France, Jaminet will have to be bought out of or pay to be released from his contract.

Jaminet’s current contract with Perpignan ends in 2024, but it was back in January that the fullback who starred in this year’s Six Nations requested an exit.

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His new destination has not been confirmed but Toulouse are firm favorites to pick up the 22-year-old’s signature.

It had been reported at the start of the season that Stade Toulsain was the likely destination, but the claims in the French press were denied by Perpignan President François Rivière at the time.

Now Toulouse – in the form of President Didier Lacroix – have openly admitted that they are interested in signing the fullback, who has earned 11 caps for Fabien Galthie’s France to date.

Perennial Top 14 strugglers Perpignan are just one spot up from the bottom of the league, and Jaminet will be eager to kick on in a career that already looks destined for the stars.

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Jaminet was an integral part of France’s 2022 Six Nations campaign and has taken the opportunity afforded to him in the injury absence of Brice Dulin.

 

 

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

"has SA actually EVER helped to develop another union to maturity like NZ has with Japan," yes - Argentina. You obviously don't know the history of Argentinian rugby. SA were touring there on long development tours in the 1950's

We continued the Junior Bok tours to the Argentine through to the early 70's

My coach at Grey High was Giepie Wentzel who toured Argentine as a fly half. He told me about how every Argentinian rugby club has pictures of Van Heerden and Danie Craven on prominent display. Yes we have developed a nation far more than NZ has done for Japan. And BTW Sa players were playing and coaching in Japan long before the Kiwis arrived. Fourie du Preez and many others were playing there 15 years ago.


"Isaac Van Heerden's reputation as an innovative coach had spread to Argentina, and he was invited to Buenos Aires to help the Pumas prepare for their first visit to South Africa in 1965.[1][2] Despite Argentina faring badly in this tour,[2] it was the start of a long and happy relationship between Van Heerden and the Pumas. Izak van Heerden took leave from his teaching post in Durban, relocated to Argentina, learnt fluent Spanish, and would revolutionise Argentine play in the late 1960s, laying the way open for great players such as Hugo Porta.[1][2] Van Heerden virtually invented the "tight loose" form of play, an area in which the Argentines would come to excel, and which would become a hallmark of their playing style. The Pumas repaid the initial debt, by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park, and emerged as one of the better modern rugby nations, thanks largely to the talents of this Durban schoolmaster.[1]"


After the promise made by Junior Springbok manager JF Louw at the end of a 12-game tour to Argentina in 1959 – ‘I will do everything to ensure we invite you to tour our country’ – there were concerns about the strength of Argentinian rugby. South African Rugby Board president Danie Craven sent coach Izak van Heerden to help the Pumas prepare and they repaid the favour by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park.

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