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A candidate for his own succession as president of the French Rugby Federation, the head of the FFR wants to learn the lessons of the scandals that marked the black summer of French rugby.
“The lessons are that there must be a before and after in the whole organization.” Words signed Florian Grill, this Saturday, September 21 in the morning, in an interview with RMC. The current president of the French Rugby Federation, candidate for his succession against Didier Codorniou, was invited to react to the troubles that have shaken the French rugby league in recent weeks: racist remarks by Melvyn Jaminet, Jegou-Auradou affair, disappearance of Medhi Narjissi…
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Episodes that have raised many questions about authority, discipline, and the role played by the staff and management personnel within the different categories of the French XV. And by trickle-down effect, in the professional clubs.
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According to Florian Grill, if the functioning of staffs must indeed be questioned, we must look at the bigger picture: “It is not necessarily about strengthening the staffs,” he says. “It is about putting in place procedures that did not exist before. That is to say that previously, in the organization of French rugby tours, there was a principle commonly accepted for years which was autonomy and accountability. It does not work. It does not work! And there was everything except a system of sanctions.”
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And Florian Grill continued: “Tomorrow, there should be financial sanctions for players and staff, sporting sanctions that could range from temporary or permanent exclusion from the French teams. We must manage things with much more firmness, much more rigor too. That is what we intend to do, in coordination with all the clubs because the problem also exists in the clubs, we are not going to tell ourselves stories. If only the Federation dealt with this, it would be insufficient.”
Before concluding: “There is work, there is bread on the board and our intention is to work.”
The FFR presidential election is scheduled for October 19.
