well,at Albi after the welsh debarcle I heard him order 'deux bieres ' for him & Jowitt so he has clearly learned the essentials - No,he understands almost no french and doesn't seem to have made any progress since I first chatted with him following last years Four Nations games in Toulouse & Paris.Any non french speaker has to have french backroom staff at least.If he doesn't stay on (and I hope he does) I would like to see someone like Julien Rinaldi given the chance

Would Rinaldi want the gig though? Hasn't he just signed for Wakefield? Goulding needs someone who can watch the French players week in, week out.

of course, but thinking more long term,after BG cos' he didn't seem to have any intention of giving up his position in the immediate future - he was obviously down after the wales game but stressed he had no intention of packing his bags.Maybe the FFR13 have other ideas...
If he did leave for whatever reason, I would go for LF at Dragons or someone well versed in the Dragons culture
Last season I don't recall seeing Bobby at any of the TO home games except one and none of the Catalan games I attended,as well as the LER games I watched - seems strange he's trying to select possible players from third parties in france.It's my only criticism of him.

You would give your back teeth for another Felix Bergese or Jep Lacoste.

Even the new Louis Bonnery.

great thought but at nearly 97 years of age ,I feel M.Bergese is a little too old unfortunately !

why not be bold and appoint Laurent Frayssinous as coach with Jerome Guisset as assistant on a part-time basis ?

LF or JG would work as assistants, but neither have first team coaching experience and neither have had the nod to coach UTC, let alone the national side.

very true belgian but i'm an old romantic and would like to see the FFR have the b***s to be adventurous - I feel these two with Bobby G would make a good coaching set-up tho'

rlGuisset to cut his coaching teeth at Catalans.rl

John_D - can Jerome be considered for the Hall of Fame ?

That someone is most likely to be Lezignan coach Aurelien Cologni who is considering the assistant coach position

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