The French remain on three victories in a row against the famous All Blacks. This summer, the Blues of Galthié but not of Dupont will travel for a three-match tour to the land of the long cloud. A series of matches which reminds us that Dupont, Ntamack, Mauvaka, Penaud… and other executives will perhaps never play in New Zealand.
If the demonstration against Japan and the mastery displayed in front of the Pumas were exciting, the euphoria of the autumn tour comes first of all from the tremendous success against New Zealand. It's been true since the dawn of time: a duel with the All Blacks is unique in that it immediately becomes a legend, whatever the result. This is also the magic of “All Blacks”. And we must admit that the pride, among us French, is not weak to have beaten them the last three times we met them, creating a new rivalry – at least (re) spiced up – between the two nations. You just have to take a look at the agenda to realize, not without immense excitement, that the next three meetings against our best enemies will take place during the coming summer, in New Zealand …And the exhilaration of falling so dry when understanding that the French “. And, without offending these guys who must be considered as more than second-rate, forcing us to remember the famous UFOs of the Galthié era, including Melvyn Jaminet who revealed himself during a trip to Australia already disputed without the executives, or to remember that the Jelonch, Danty or Woki had changed dimension with this kind of summer tour, we must lament in the face of this situation which is at best heartbreaking, at worst ubuesque. There is also no question here of charging Fabien Galthié and his deputies, who made the (prudent and reasonable) choice to leave the bosses on the ground to rest.
This is necessarily thoughtful, especially since the staff must consider things in the medium and long term, to plan ahead until the 2027 meeting, when it will be a question of arriving fresh enough to finally lift that damn Webb-Ellis trophy. Even if we come to say that these Tricolores precisely need to measure themselves again against what is highest to reach the summits, to come to believe that it would perhaps be better to spare them another moment… How can we accept that Dupont, Fickou, Mauvaka, Ollivon, Ramos, Bielle-Biarrey, Flament or Penaud will not be traveling in July? Imagine that the victorious tour of the Blues in the country of rugby in 1994 is engraved in everyone's memory, that we still talk about the try at the end of the world as if it had been flattened by Jean-Luc Sadourny yesterday . It's terrible but the incomparable Antoine Dupont will perhaps never play in his career at Eden Park in Auckland. The fault is the current organization of rugby, its absurd calendar. It's as if, in tennis, we had deprived Roger Federer of stepping on the grass of the Center Court at Wimbledon, or Rafael Nadal the clay court of the Central Court at Roland-Garros. And frankly, it’s crying…
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