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Toulon hire former journalist Pesenti as executive director

Francois Pesenti attends the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 First Leg match between Manchester United (Man U) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at Old Trafford stadium (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

Toulon have hired a heavy-hitting media mogul as their executive director, who is set to take charge of strategic development at the Top 14 side. François Pesenti had already been working as a consultant with the struggling giants, where a more formal and wide-reaching role has been confirmed.

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The transition to new owner Bernard Lemaître, who took over in 2021, has been a rocky one. Toulon have – however – climbed from the bottom of the Top 14 table to 9th in recent weeks, allaying fears that the unthinkable could happen and they’d be relegated.

Pesenti will lead the entire “business” department of the club and will continue to ensure its strategic development, the club said in a statement.

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    Pesenti began his career as a journalist at RTL, before taking over the management of sports at popular French media outlet RMC in 2001.

    He became Managing Director of RMC Sport in 2008, where he created and developed the agency and then the television channels and more generally the brand RMC Sport, until leaving in 2019.

    Pesenti said he was “very happy to be part of the Rouge & Noire team. This club has an extraordinary history and immense potential to develop. We have many projects for the coming years, the main lines of which we will present shortly.

    “It is with great enthusiasm and motivation that I join Bernard Lemaître, Frédéric Bir and all the RCT teams to accompany the club to the heights of international rugby”.

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    Currently an advisor and producer at the head of his company CLP, he is also a member of the Strategy Committee of the streaming platform Sportall.

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    They didn’t really let him go though did they. He was gone, already signed to leave some 18 months earlier. Not much they could do.


    Definitely a shame though, hence why I criticize the coaching for not unlocking that composure earlier. We would have seen he was definitely the player we need to take us through that WC, and the next, before the contract talks started. After, was too late. Conversely, if he had of continued to play the way he had been when he signed to go to Japan, I have no doubt Damien McKenzie would have been the player to lead us in 23’, and then we very likely would have won that Final. I’m not so sure Dmac would hve been good enough to get us past Ireland, Richie definitely deserves a lot of credit for simply getting us to the Final.


    But that was all my message to HHT was. That class, or talent in this case, is permeant, and games like Ireland showed he did definitely had that. Obviously Richie’s got a large responsibility in realizing it sooner too, but in terms of not displaying it when it counts in 2019 or 2023, I reckon that’s on the coachs more than a lack of talent on his part, and it’s the same shame when it comes to your sentiment. If he was at the point were he could have saved out bacon against Ireland in 2022, it might not have been too late for NZR to have come in with a big contract offer. The bigger problem now is that Razor is only exasperating that problem with this new group. We now clearly know he was a big factor in Richie taking so long, because he’s replicating the same problems with the current batch. Thankfully NZR had no other option but to offer a big contract to secure Dmac this time though, regardless of how he must have felt after being treated like that.

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    Head high tackle 1 hour ago
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    Very targeted article that writes to deliberately put across a fake point. Please John tell us who each side has played?

    Why has NZ and AUs sides not really clashed? Because of all the “local” derbies John. How many times will the Reds, Brumbies, Tahs and Force , play the Blues, Canes, Saders, Highlanders, Moana and Chiefs John? ONCE per season. If you want to write an article about the failings of the draw then please write about the actual failings of the draw, Not a fabrication about the draw being unfair to the actual sides it heavily favours. Not 1 Aus side will play an NZ team twice to get to the finals. ALL NZ sides will.

    To give you ONE example lets look at the Blues draw.

    In 9 rounds so far they have played every NZ based side. ( 5 games ) then the Canes twice, Chiefs twice, And this weekend they play the 2nd game v the Saders this season. ( 3 more games ) so the only side they have played thats not an NZ based team is the Brumbies. 1 GAME! Still to play the Reds, Tahs, Force and Drua and will only get 1 game V those sides.


    There are 4 Australian sides John. Pure maths tells me that means 2 home games against Aus sides and 2 away games v Aus sides. So basically NO NZ side should ever play more than 2 games in a season in Aus. Aus cut their teams down to 4. This is the direct result.


    Yes the draw is not fair, but that heavily favors Aus sides. Either have 1 round or have 2, but this 1.5 rounds isnt fair to ALL NZ based sides.

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