2023-10-21 17:19:49
Speaking to RMC, Florian Grill confirmed that France sent a report on the refereeing of Ben O’Keeffe during the Rugby World Cup quarter-final lost to South Africa last Sunday (28-29). ).
France is still not getting angry. Six days following the World Cup quarter-final lost to South Africa by a small point (28-29), the performance of referee Ben O’Keeffe continues to cause a lot of ink to flow. While World Rugby supervisors would have spotted five major refereeing errors, including three to the disadvantage of the Blues, Florian Grill confirmed on RMC that France had sent a report on the refereeing of the match once morest the Springboks.
“Of course there are observations to be made regarding this match, because there are always observations to be made regarding a match. Of course, we made a report regarding the refereeing. Not a complaint because in any case the match is not going to be replayed. Of course we discussed quite firmly with World Rugby because out of the twenty commissions that we have within World Rugby, there were ultimately one or two French people barely involved. We need to invest and influence the World Rugby organization.”
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“The referee is fallible”
If he maintains that he will never say “a word regarding refereeing”, Florian Grill wants to “preserve all referees”. “That does not prevent me from asking the French teams to send a complete report on the refereeing because we always have to progress. We must always say what is working and what is not working if necessary. referee, he is fallible, like a player is fallible.”
Despite the slap received and this early elimination in “its” World Cup, the French XV wants to turn the page, “recognize defeat, accept it and prepare for 2027”, the year of the next World Cup in Australia, because it we must not “rehash the past” but “prepare for the future” according to Florian Grill. A future that is being written with Fabien Galthié as captain of the blue ship.
“There is a duty to remember and not forget the past four years, the 80% of victories for this French team, the four magnificent years that they gave us,” continued the president of the FFR. “It’s not a defeat to a point that suddenly requires us to change everything, to break everything. We don’t break things that work, we don’t break things that work. He’s a Fabien warrior He is someone who is already planning for the next step, already thinking regarding what we can improve because he is a perfectionist. He is someone who demonstrated during this World Cup an exceptional human dimension because the group remained united.”
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