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French side Massy leave player behind at motorway service station

(Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP via Getty Images)

Rugby Club Massy Essonne in the Nationale maybe aren’t the most attentive bunch, after leaving an academy player behind at a motorway service station in France.

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On Sunday Massy – who play in the Nationale, France’s third flight – had traveled to Bourg-en-Bresse for the first match of their play-offs and the Ile-de-France team proved successfully, narrowly winning the game 21 -23.

Howwever, it was on the trip back that the victorious French side took their eye off the ball.

During a break on a motorway service area on the A6, one of the RCME’s academy players was simply forgotten, with the bus taking off up the road without him.

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Luckily, a team bus from rival club Rouen bus passed, picked him up and brought him back to his destination.

Rugby Club Massy Essonne Tweeted: “Thank you to the Rouen Normandy Rugby club for picking up our Espoir player who missed the departure of the bus during the break on the A6… hazards of rugby ”.

It would have been quite a hike for the player involved to return to Massy, which is over four hours by bus away from Bourg-en-Bresse.

Reports that the player is now in talks to sign for the Rouen could not be corroborated.

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‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

"Right, so even if they were the 4 worst teams in Champions Cup, you'd still have them back by default?"

I think (i) this would literally never happen, (ii) it technically couldn't quite happen, given at least 1 team would qualify via the challenge cup, so if the actual worst team in the CC qualified it would have to be because they did really well after being knocked down to the challenge cup.

But the 13th-15th teams could qualify and to be fair I didn't think about this as a possibility. I don't think a team should be able to qualify via the Champions Cup if they finish last in their group.


Overall though I like my idea best because my thinking is, each league should get a few qualification spots, and then the rest of the spots should go to the next best teams who have proven an ability to be competitive in the champions cup. The elite French clubs generally make up the bulk of the semi-final spots, but that doesn't (necessarily) mean that the 5th-8th best French clubs would be competitive in a slimmed down champions cup. The CC is always going to be really great competition from the semis onwards, but the issue is that there are some pretty poor showings in the earlier rounds. Reducing the number of teams would help a little bit, but we could improve things further by (i) ensuring that the on-paper "worst" teams in the competition have a track record of performing well in the CC, and (ii) by incentivising teams to prioritise the competition. Teams that have a chance to win the whole thing will always be incentivised to do that, but my system would incentivise teams with no chance of making the final to at least try to win a few group stage matches.


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