As the Six Nations Tournament begins on Friday January 31, the Blues are greatly anticipated in this edition. With a success at the end so that this Dupont generation can pay for itself.
It's one of those events that we'll never get tired of, a treasure that makes up our history and our happiness. The 6 Nations Tournament therefore arrives in person, from Friday in Saint-Denis with this inaugural France-Wales from which we expect such great things.
For weeks already, to carry the promise, there have been messages from friends and networks looking for places. Then, the media release of Fabien Galthié which signaled the end of hibernation, reminding us how absence and silence are weapons to be handled with caution. Then, the “Insta” stories with the sound of bagpipes and the notes of Flower of Scotland captured last year, which we can't wait to see again to capsize with all our hearts.
The magic still works, no offense to the cautious who constantly dream of dusting off the mammoth and doing something new for the sake of something new, at any cost. Help yourself, happiness remains within reach on the front of tradition.
It will be total, you will see, if the sporting promise lives up to our expectations. With the Dupont Blues who we now hope to be at the best of their individual and collective talent. Because this group certainly carries the means that only the greatest generations use to heat themselves. And because this band, although it performed in clubs in Toulouse and La Rochelle, has not yet made history at international level.
-To understand it, you will read in this newspaper all the determination of Thomas Ramos who no longer wants to be satisfied with the 2022 Grand Slam: “It is important to have ambitions. We want to win the Tournament”. The flyhalf knows perfectly well where he is going. Brilliant on the field, legitimate as hell, in our eyes almost as indispensable as his friend Dupont, the Mazamétain serves as an example. He now intends to write his part of the success, taking the other players in his wake.
The time has come for our French XV to win something other than a series of inglorious matches at the end. And the matter is not just a matter of results or personal glory. Because it is clearly the best way to last, to forget the horrors of recent news (tour to Australia), to erase the disappointment of the 2023 World Cup and to look forward to Australia for the 2027 World Cup.
In the event of a new Half-Fig Tournament (like in 2024), everything could be called into question: the choices of the coach and his plans, the credit and the means granted to him, as well as the confidence of the clubs which give him clapped hands (not without coughing). Fabien Galthié recently claimed to have “heard the injunction”. Above all, may he have found the keys to performance to make this 2025 Tournament a summit that we will still be licking our lips about in ten or twenty years.
“We hear the injunction,” Fabien Galthié recently admitted before returning to his troops.
