• Fabien Galthié did not wish to mention the last match of the autumn tour after the victory against Argentina.

  • The Blues have only fifteen days to refine the settings that appeared hesitant at the Stade de France

At the Stade de France,

Gabin Villière did not see a drinking ball in Saint-Denis or almost, but while hooks in video in front of journalists.

Launched more or less skillfully on the improvement tracks before the elephant in the middle of the corridor, namely the New Zealand ogre in the same place in two weeks, the Blues winger slalomed between the stakes like a Alexis Pinturault of the great days never to mention the game everyone is waiting for.

Even if it means going through ready-made expressions that we thought were reserved for the Liguain.

- "We will take the matches after the others".

But still ?

- "You have to take the matches after the others"

That is to say ?

- "We take the matches one after the other"

True, the Toulonnais has beaten around the bush three times, before daring to pronounce the name of the big bad wolf: “We still have work to do before this final deadline.

Let's already try to make a good performance with Georgia before facing the Blacks ”.

At least he dared to pronounce the accursed name, unlike Fabien Galthié, who took the motorway to Lille before taking it in the opposite direction to answer next:

“This tour is very difficult.

We first played Latins who know how to take us.

We were already expecting a tough match, with a proposed rugby that was going to cause problems.

Georgia will also be a game with a lot of fights.

Most of them play in France too so there will be a big challenge.

We will talk about the third game in due course ”.

Obviously, that's the game, but we sometimes think we are back in the days of Bernard Laporte who taught us a lesson on the theme "we don't say Blacks, we say New Zealand", as if demystifying the name could prevent us to take a rouste.

Ledesma beguiling in French, a little less in Spanish

Moreover, we just wanted to get an idea of ​​the site that awaits the French staff to raise the level of three notches in two weeks, when the very blacks have been sleeping together for six months and have just sticking 60 to the Welsh no later than last week.

So we asked Mario Ledesma, the Argentine coach, much more talkative on the subject.

“Has France made progress?

It's for everyone to see, right?

I remember that a few years ago, Hugo Mola told me that this generation could be world champions if we did things right.

He was not mistaken.

For me France is one of the three best teams in the world, no doubt about it.

The France team is largely at the level of the nations of the South ”.

It's nice Mario, but we mostly talk about THE nation of the South.

Because we must not hide our face: if the Pumas hit the Blacks a year ago, since it's Waterloo every weekend, and yet, we drooled like snails to calm them down on Saturday evening.

Moreover, when responding in Spanish to the usual followers of his team in the country, Ledesma had a very different speech:

“We had a lot more the ball in their camp than in the Championship we play most often in our 40 meters.

There, we went to their place and we had a lot of hits in their 22 meters, it's been a long time since that had happened to us ”.

Between the lines ?

Blacks are something else.

In short, we are in a hurry to be there, but not too much either.

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