French aim to entertain on tour
NZPA New Plymouth The French rugby team opens its tour of New Zealand against Taranaki today with a pledge to play open and exciting rugby intended to “make spectators happy.” The team’s assistant coach, Jean Pique, said after a solid final training run yesterday that the players were intent not just on winning the tour opener but on winning it well. “We like to run the ball,” he said. “We like to play good rugby for the spectators. We hope we will win.
The players are training very hard for that but it is important to us to win very well by scoring tries,” he said. To facilitate its aim, the French management asked for the grass at New Plymouth’s Rugby Park to be cut yesterday to allow its players to take advantage of a surface which should be hard and fast. The 15 which France will field is expected to be too strong for a Taranaki side which has suffered a bleak season so far, playing three matches and losing each.
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