Mega-boot: Lionel Beauxis is back at fly-half
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It didn’t take long for the club v country rows that have dogged French rugby for years to resume. Just one eleventhhour defeat into new boss Jacques Brunel’s reign and he was under serious attack. What makes it worse is that the man criticising him so severely was employing him as his own team boss at Bordeaux-Begles just a few weeks ago.
Bordeaux president Laurent Marti was scathing in his asssessment that Matthieu Jalibert, his 19-year-old flyhalf prodigy, was still too much of a tenderfoot to be asked to ...