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'The group has no respect' - Agen sack coaches mid-season after humiliating, landslide loss

Now former Agen coach Manager Christophe Laussucq (Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Agen Rugby have sacked their coaching ticket after they shipped a massive loss away to Bordeaux Begles.

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Manager Christophe Laussucq and forwards coach Rémi Vaquin were sacked, seemingly at the behest of club president Jean-François Fonteneau after they fell to a humiliating 5-71 defeat. It was the seventh loss in a row for the club.

A short statement on the Agen website reads: “SUA LG and its president Jean-François Fonteneau have decided to suspend their collaboration with Christophe Laussucq (Manager) and Rémi Vaquin (Front Coach).”

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      Fonteneau tweeted the club’s decision and his disgust at the players.

      “I am scandalized by the attitude of the players (some) towards the UBB. I think about sanctioning the group financially. Unbearable that our partners and supporters support us economically in this anxiety-provoking context and that the group has no respect.”

      In an interview with RMCSport, Fonteneau explained the decision: “It was obviously not an easy decision to make.

      “Presidents are there in good times and bad. My role was to decide in an obviously complicated and anxiety-provoking context. The situation was falling apart.

      “The behavior of the team in Bordeaux and against other teams at the start of the season is not worthy of professional players. It’s often easy to thank the coaches . There may also be other sanctions because we have situations, inside the club, which do not promote an effective collective or a table reversal. Unfortunately, that decision had to be made.”

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      “Losing is part of sport, but losing like we did is not normal. The team dropped this club, the jersey and certainly the coaches too.”

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      Soliloquin 22 minutes ago
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      I don’t know the financial story behind the changes that were implemented, but I guess clubs started to lose money, Mourad Boudjellal won it all with Toulon, got tired and wanted to invest in football , the French national team was at its lowest with the QF humiliation in 2015 and the FFR needed to transform the model where no French talent could thrive. Interestingly enough, the JIFF rule came in during the 2009/2010 season, so before the Toulon dynasty, but it was only 40% of the players that to be from trained in French academies. But the crops came a few years later, when they passed it at the current level of 70%.

      Again, I’m not a huge fan of under 18 players being scouted and signed. I’d rather have French clubs create sub-academies in French territories like Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia and other places that are culturally closer to RU and geographically closer to rugby lands. Mauvaka, Moefana, Taofifenua bros, Tolofua bros, Falatea - they all came to mainland after starting their rugby adventure back home.

      They’re French, they come from economically struggling areas, and rugby can help locally, instead of lumping foreign talents.

      And even though many national teams benefit from their players training and playing in France, there are cases where they could avoid trying to get them in the French national team (Tatafu).

      In other cases, I feel less shame when the country doesn’t believe in the player like in Meafou’s case.

      And there are players that never consider switching to the French national team like Niniashvili, Merckler or even Capuozzo, who is French and doesn’t really speak Italian.

      We’ll see with Jacques Willis 🥲


      But hey, it’s nothing new to Australia and NZ with PI!

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