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Franck Azema to leave Toulon - report

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Franck Azéma is set to depart Toulon at the end of the current season, although the news has yet to be officially confirmed.

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Rugbyrama report that the former Clermont coach revealed his departure to the RCT players during an exceptional meeting held on Thursday morning. This means that Azéma’s partnership with RCT head coach, Mignoni, will only have lasted for a single season.

The news of Azéma’s departure comes about a year and a half after he joined the Toulon. It is expected that an official announcement will be made shortly.

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During the announcement to the Toulon players, Azéma revealed that he will be leaving La Rade for “family reasons”. He will be moving to Perpignan where he will be taking over from Patrick Arlettaz as head coach. Arlettaz’s departure has been confirmed since February of this year.

Azéma – a some time rugby league player – was part of the coaching staff that led USAP to win the Bouclier de Brennus in 2009. He will now be looking to bring his expertise to the Catalan team and help once again to bring similar success.

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Ardy 1 hour ago
Elegant or turbulent? Can Les give the Wallabies the Kiss of Life?

A hard read this time Nick but as always backed by observations.

One of the big problems in coaching Australia seems to be speaking nicely but carry a big stick. I think Les will do the nicely bit and add some variation to play, but the Wallabies can easily slip back into old habits unless they are held to account.

Schmidt has a reputation that anyone in rugby could appreciate, including all the players. When he wields the big stick, they understand where it’s coming from. Not sure the current players will give Les that understanding when tough decisions need to be taken.

I suspect he will be a bit like Ewen McKenzie, a decent coach undermined by players. The saving grace will be that the ARU are not the soft and useless bunch Ewen had to deal with.

Les will also have the support of Qld and the hatred of NSW and since NSW seem to heading in their standard direction of failure, it may not affect him.


BTW he needs to dramatically improve Qld D and not just Ryan. Not shutting the Drua down early by utilising an umbrella(?) D and letting them run is always a recipe for disaster

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JW 2 hours ago
Why ‘the curse of the Bambino’ is still stronger than ever at Leinster

Wasn’t the 3 option a 50/50? You’d take those odds? Have to look for Optas recap.


Yeah, if you’re right, hard for a breakout season 10 to go all the way and claim the title for his team. Let them/him build over the next few seasons. Noting the scrum too after you said that JGP did have a bit of a quite game for his standards?

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OJohn 2 hours ago
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The very predictable and inevitable, let’s bag Less Kiss article from the hasbeen Welsh analyst, formerly employed by NZ rugby, trying to get his other mate and employer the failed pommie Lancaster a job in Australia, so that the hasbeen welshman can score some employment off him.


Soooo predictable.


You’re irrelevant now boyo. Try and spend more time trying to help your own country instead of constantly undermining them by supporting your former employer NZ rugby.

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JW 2 hours ago
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Yeap nip them in the bud, still, that’s just one guys opinion which I’m sure would have been more widely known if true (points by quarter).


But you appear to be in the camp, essentially, that they just need to run these guys into the ground and cross their fingers they get through. Is that how they started off winning Champs do you know? This is the same line up they’ve gone with in previous games right, where you saying that then?

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JW 2 hours ago
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Surely because he doesn’t have the same cohesion, they’d hardly played together. Sam and Jordie seemed to have a good combo going though. I doubt it would have looked any different than when Jordie was on the park myself.

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To think that the best in Europe will not be able to keep up with Aus because Aus play in SRP. This is the B & I Lions we are talking about playing against Aus the #8 team on the rankings. I suppose upsets do happen but how can anyone see anything less than a 3-0 to the Lions. No national team made up of SRP players will be able to match the Lions on a rugby field imho. If they were playing basketball maybe but not rugby.

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JW 2 hours ago
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They didn’t seem to have any trouble accruing points in the second half GD.

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In the end it all came down to whether Leinster could convert that penalty to points. The stage was set, they held all the cards, and it was time for the killer blow..

Yup, and then Pollock pilfered the ball after going to ground lol, gg.

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