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Toulouse plan January tribute in South Africa for Medhi Narjissi

Medhi Narjissi in the colours of Toulouse (Screengrab via Instagram)

Double winners Toulouse are planning to visit Dias beach where club apprentice Medhi Narjissi was tragically lost to the sea last August.

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The defending Top 14/Champions Cup champions are poised to play a January match away to the Sharks in Durban and they will use that trip as an opportunity to also visit the beach near Cape of Good Hope to pay tribute to Narjissi.

The teenage out-half had travelled to South Africa as part of the France U18 international squad but was swept out of sea during a recovery session in the water on the beach. With his body still missing, an involuntary manslaughter investigation has been opened by the Agen prosecutor’s office.

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In the meantime, Toulouse, who began their Champions Cup title defence with a 61-21 hammering of Ulster on Sunday, are due to play at the Sharks on January 11 and they are planning to visit Dias beach before that match.

Speaking to Sud Radio about their round three trip to South Africa, Toulouse president Didier Lacroix said: “We plan to stay the whole week in South Africa. This will allow us to pay tribute to a country that touched us and that touched one of us last summer. We will go and spend some time there.”

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JW 4 hours ago
How law changes are speeding up the game - but the scrum lags behind

Too much to deal with in one reply JW!

No problem, I hope it wasn't too hard a read and thanks for replying. As always, just throwing ideas out for there for others to contemplate.


Well fatigue was actually my first and main point! I just want others to come to that conclusion themselves rather than just feeding it to them lol


I can accept that South Africa have a ball in play stat that correlates with a lower fitness/higher strength team, but I don't necessarily buy the argument that one automatically leads to the other. I'd suspect their two stats (high restart numbers low BIPs) likely have separate causes.


Graham made a great point about crescendos. These are what people call momentum swings these days. The build up in fatigue is a momentum swing. The sweeping of the ball down the field in multiple phases is a momentum swing. What is important is that these are far too easily stopped by fake injuries or timely replacements, and that they can happen regularly enough that extending game time (through stopping the clock) becomes irrelevant. It has always been case that to create fatigue play needs to be continuous. What matters is the Work to Rest ratio exceeding 70 secs and still being consistent at the ends of games.


Qualities in bench changes have a different effect, but as their use has become quite adept over time, not so insignificant changes that they should be ignored, I agree. The main problem however is that teams can't dictate the speed of the game, as in, any team can dictate how slow it becomes if they really want to, but the team in possession (they should even have some capability to keep the pace up when not in possession) are too easily foiled when the want to play with a high tempo.

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