The exercise is agreed. A bit dated, even, when the calendar sets our reunion for January 6 with the publication of the first Midol “Historical Canal” of the year. It nonetheless remains a pleasure and, let's say it, a breath of fresh air. Presenting you Midi Olympique wishes is much more than a simple moment of kindness and much better than the expression of this affection which binds us around rugby.
The new year (may we wish you a good, exciting and sweet life), indeed marks the time of promises. The end of an era and the grand opening towards a future which obviously remains to be written but which we always predict will be better. It doesn’t matter where you come from and it doesn’t matter if winter has barely started, spring is already here…
Are we exaggerating? Barely. See how in this period of – good – wishes, things are magnificent and suddenly come to life without us having to step on the accelerator: our championships will very quickly move towards the final phases, which are much more than our Proust madeleines; and the 6 Nations Tournament is scheduled for the end of the month, uncertain but bringing the omen of a great reunion with the gang in Dupont.
It's time to win
We are in 2025, in the middle of the gap between two World Cups and it will take everything for French rugby to remain so firmly in the hearts of the French, that it appears at the top of the poster. Because the months which have just passed have spared no one, according to too many affairs (sometimes even dramas) and lack of title (lighter subject) to hang on the coat of Fabien Galthié's quinzists, on whom rest so many hopes, almost commensurate with the means deployed with our eyes closed over the past five years.
As players and coaches often say, with this catch-all formula that makes our ears and hearts bleed, it is “time to pay ourselves”. Translation: the time has come to win, to realize the efforts made individually and collectively, to bring to fruition all these training sessions spent playing and… To train.
So, let us express the wish to finally see this French generation again – bursting with talent and so brilliant on paper or in the club – to very quickly win a second major title after the 2022 Grand Slam. It is at this price that it will carry its flame , intact and alive, until the next Australian World Cup where she has already made an appointment to finally mark her history.
Without waiting, our immediate hopes will turn to the Bleues of the XV of France, engaged in the Redemption and Emergency Tournament, before launching into their World Cup at the end of August, in England. Here again, the challenges are immense. Living up to our wildest dreams of seeing Sochat, Bourdon, Hermet, Feleu and other Verniers walk as pioneers on the roof of our world. Happy New Year everyone. And all.
