French Rugby - This is rather amusing.

[Blue]

Match this weekend. Montpellier put 50 on Racing.

Team sheets below. French players in bold.


Out of the 46 players:

Montpellier: 7 French, 16 Foreigners

Racing: 6 French, 17 Foreigners

So that is 13 French and 33 Foreigners




Montpellier: 15 Joffrey Michel, 14 Joe Tomane, 13 Vincent Martin, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Nemani Nadolo, 10 Willie du Plessis, 9 Benoit Paillaugue, 8 Kelian Galletier, 7 Antoine Battut, 6 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 5 Paul Willemse, 4 Jacques Du Plessis, 3 Antoine Guillamon, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Gregory Fichten
Replacements: 16 Romain Ruffenach, 17 Mikheil Nariashvili, 18 Pierre Spies, 19 Akapusi Qera, 20 Nic White, 21 Timoci Nagusa, 22 Demetri Catrakilis, 23 Jannie du Plessis
Racing 92: 15 Sean Robinson, 14 Teddy Thomas, 13 Anthony Tuitavake, 12 Dan Carter, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Rémi Tales, 9 Maxime Machenaud, 8 Chris Masoe, 7 Leone Nakarawa, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Manuel Carizza, 4 Gerbrandt Grobler, 3 Luc Ducalcon, 2 Camille Chat, 1 Khatchik Vartanov
Replacements: 16 Virgile Lacombe, 17 Ben Tameifuna, 18 François van der Merwe, 19 Antonie Claassen, 20 James Hart, 21 Albert Vulivuli, 22 Yannick Nyanga, 23 Cedate Gomes Sa

 

[Inside Shoulder]

So the Montpellier scouts are better than the Racing scouts

 

[ChargerWA]

Nearly as many Saffers as Frenchies. 10 by my count.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

2 Camille Chat,

wft is this for a front rowers name? Camille Chat? What's his fucken props name, Lace Camisole?

 

[Highlander35]

Poor poor Naka.

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[I like to watch]

So the Montpellier scouts are better than the Racing scouts

Probably just more cashed up.

 

[Bullrush]

Off topic but - last year we had Joe Tomane come to our team prize-giving and do a Q&A sessions where he was asked about why he was going to France. While $$ was obviously a big deal, he talked about his desire to play centre, something he hadn't done at the Brumbies, and he was hoping to play a lot more there at Montpellier.

I don't know if he was just at wing for just this game for injury cover or something but I hope he has been playing at centre more as he wanted to.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Off topic but - last year we had Joe Tomane come to our team prize-giving and do a Q&A sessions where he was asked about why he was going to France. While $$ was obviously a big deal, he talked about his desire to play centre, something he hadn't done at the Brumbies, and he was hoping to play a lot more there at Montpellier.

I don't know if he was just at wing for just this game for injury cover or something but I hope he has been playing at centre more as he wanted to.

Should have gone to the tahs - they think that everyone's a centre de p down - hell they even have a 7 who plays like one.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Might be time for player to accept that their skills might be more suitable for positions other than their preferred one. Thinking of Joe, who when he left was rated best winger in Aus, and Folau, who for a number of years was supreme at 15 in Aus. Had they stayed in position and in the country they would both be walk up starters in those spots for the Wallabies this year. Now Joe's out of the picture and Izzy is out of form.

 

[Highlander35]

Same shit happens everywhere though.


The major reason Maitland left Glasgow in the first place, was that he wanted to play his Provincial/Club Rugby at Fullback.

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[amirite]

Match this weekend. Montpellier put 50 on Racing.

Team sheets below. French players in bold.


Out of the 46 players:

Montpellier: 7 French, 16 Foreigners

Racing: 6 French, 17 Foreigners

So that is 13 French and 33 Foreigners




Montpellier: 15 Joffrey Michel, 14 Joe Tomane, 13 Vincent Martin, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Nemani Nadolo, 10 Willie du Plessis, 9 Benoit Paillaugue, 8 Kelian Galletier, 7 Antoine Battut, 6 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 5 Paul Willemse, 4 Jacques Du Plessis, 3 Antoine Guillamon, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Gregory Fichten
Replacements: 16 Romain Ruffenach, 17 Mikheil Nariashvili, 18 Pierre Spies, 19 Akapusi Qera, 20 Nic White, 21 Timoci Nagusa, 22 Demetri Catrakilis, 23 Jannie du Plessis
Racing 92: 15 Sean Robinson, 14 Teddy Thomas, 13 Anthony Tuitavake, 12 Dan Carter, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Rémi Tales, 9 Maxime Machenaud, 8 Chris Masoe, 7 Leone Nakarawa, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Manuel Carizza, 4 Gerbrandt Grobler, 3 Luc Ducalcon, 2 Camille Chat, 1 Khatchik Vartanov
Replacements: 16 Virgile Lacombe, 17 Ben Tameifuna, 18 François van der Merwe, 19 Antonie Claassen, 20 James Hart, 21 Albert Vulivuli, 22 Yannick Nyanga, 23 Cedate Gomes Sa

Montpellier: 15 Joffrey Michel, 14 Joe Tomane, 13 Vincent Martin, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Nemani Nadolo, 10 Willie du Plessis, 9 Benoit Paillaugue, 8 Kelian Galletier, 7 Antoine Battut, 6 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 5 Paul Willemse, 4 Jacques Du Plessis, 3 Antoine Guillamon, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Gregory Fichten
Replacements: 16 Romain Ruffenach, 17 Mikheil Nariashvili, 18 Pierre Spies, 19 Akapusi Qera, 20 Nic White, 21 Timoci Nagusa, 22 Demetri Catrakilis, 23 Jannie du Plessis
Racing 92: 15 Sean Robinson, 14 Teddy Thomas, 13 Anthony Tuitavake, 12 Dan Carter, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Rémi Tales, 9 Maxime Machenaud, 8 Chris Masoe, 7 Leone Nakarawa, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Manuel Carizza, 4 Gerbrandt Grobler, 3 Luc Ducalcon, 2 Camille Chat, 1 Khatchik Vartanov
Replacements: 16 Virgile Lacombe, 17 Ben Tameifuna, 18 François van der Merwe, 19 Antonie Claassen, 20 James Hart, 21 Albert Vulivuli, 22 Yannick Nyanga, 23 Cedate Gomes Sa

I've corrected your list, you had multiple currently capped French internationals listed as foreign players.

Out of 46 players:
Montpellier - 9 French (+2), 14 foreigners
Racing - 10 French (+4), 13 foreigners

There's around 10 French qualified players in each match day squad.

Presuming all Australian match day squads have roughly 22 Australian players (usually 1 foreigner at least), meaning 110 selectable Australian players get top level game time a week (22*5=110).

France has 140 players getting game time a week (10*14) + a second professional tier, and a number of players working towards French qualification in those teams.

France is doing fine. It's just a different model.

They have other issues though.