Surviving the current coronavirus crisis is forcing professional rugby in France to take a long, hard look at itself. In an interview this week, Robins Tchale-Watchou, head of players’ union Provale, said, “there will be a before (coronavirus) and an after” for rugby.
Brive president Simon Gillham concurs. “I couldn’t have put it better,” he told The Rugby Paper. “We’re all going to have to sit down and say, ‘how do we reconfigure this?’.
“There will be change. There’ll be a lot of players on the market. Clubs will...