This week, our columnist Richard Dorthe, vice-world champion in 1999, is focusing on the “dog fight” that awaits the Blues at the Stade de France on Sunday evening and is entirely under the influence of Mathieu Jalibert’s charm. Avoids before leaning forward…
Once it is not customary, I will begin this brief speech with sarcasm. How could this damn thing, in which no one apparently pumps anything, result in such a shaky final stage? Why do we find ourselves in the ridiculous situation today where two of the four highest ranked countries in the world (Ireland, France, South Africa and New Zealand) will surely find themselves the day after the quarter-finals. , To be honest, world Cup The rugby player will want to pull down his product by shooting himself in the leg so he can’t do it any other way. Me, if I like international tennis open competitions so much, it is partly because the big names of the circuit, Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, rarely get there before the semi-finals of the competition, thus the money. Time is strong. Concluding the tournament and leaving the door open for possible surprises in the eighth or quarters…
Before making a decision on Mathieu Jalibert, I’m waiting for the Boks…
But you don’t care about my comments on Wimbledon or Flushing Meadow, do you… Les Bleus? Even though I sometimes enjoyed some of the major movements deployed on Friday evenings by tricolors in the distant Lyon suburbs, I found it pedestrian Matthew Jalibert For Damien Penaud Sublime in every way, you know me: I’ve always preferred dog fights to Sarabandas, boxing rings to yoga mats and, on Friday evenings, the same Penaud in the stands before ‘flattening that essay’ Could have stopped for coffee which I mentioned above.
That being said, I wonder whether this Italian team, weakened and even more so, has actually prepared our beloved tricolor for the planned butchery Sunday evening, against the Springboks, I also wonder to what extent the French internationals will not have to get their necks wet when Eben Etzebeth and Bongi Mbonambi enter the first rack of this match with thirty meters of pace. The time for bravery has come, boys! And you will know on the night of 15th October what exactly is in your stomach and whether you are a potential world champion or not. Me ? I believe in you. I have always believed in you. But before I definitively praise Matthew Jalibert, I’m looking forward to watching him develop against the fiercest defense on the planet and behind a group that is, at best, on par with its evening opponent. Will behave like…