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All good things must come to an end as Alex's Champions Cup party is finally over

Alex Goode calls time on his Champions Cup celebrations

In one of the stranger stories in the rugby world this week, Saracens full-back Alex Goode has brought his three-day bender to an end.

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The 30-year-old’s exploits have been documented on his team-mates’ social media accounts, as the newly crowned European Player of the Year kept his kit on for three days while celebrating. This seemed to include keeping his boots on and his gum shield tucked into his sock.

It was a particularly special weekend for Goode, as Saracens were crowned Champions Cup winners after their brutal encounter with Leinster. Capping it off with his individual accolade was obviously a good enough reason to celebrate the way he did.

However, the 21-cap England international shared a photo today on social media of his kit on the floor, with the caption “over and out”, as he brought down the curtains on his festivities.

With Saracens heading to Worcester this weekend in the final round of the Premiership, it seems unlikely that Goode will be playing, as he may need a few days to recover not only from the match, but what ensued afterwards.

Sean Maitland had documented the full-back’s exploits on his Instagram, stating that Goode was on a ‘different level’ before tagging England Rugby’s official account to notify them of Goode’s availability.

Goode was praised by Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall after the match and admitted the ongoing exclusion from Eddie Jones’ England team bothers him.

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“It does bother me because we want all of our players to get what they deserve. He has been so brilliant for our club for so long that sometimes it is hard to fathom,” McCall said.

“It is not in our control. What is in Alex’s control is how well he plays and most people think he is playing pretty well.

“He is superb with the younger players. When the internationals do go away he has been captaining our team. He is a really important member of the club.”

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Soliloquin 2 hours ago
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I don’t know the financial story behind the changes that were implemented, but I guess clubs started to lose money, Mourad Boudjellal won it all with Toulon, got tired and wanted to invest in football , the French national team was at its lowest with the QF humiliation in 2015 and the FFR needed to transform the model where no French talent could thrive. Interestingly enough, the JIFF rule came in during the 2009/2010 season, so before the Toulon dynasty, but it was only 40% of the players that to be from trained in French academies. But the crops came a few years later, when they passed it at the current level of 70%.

Again, I’m not a huge fan of under 18 players being scouted and signed. I’d rather have French clubs create sub-academies in French territories like Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia and other places that are culturally closer to RU and geographically closer to rugby lands. Mauvaka, Moefana, Taofifenua bros, Tolofua bros, Falatea - they all came to mainland after starting their rugby adventure back home.

They’re French, they come from economically struggling areas, and rugby can help locally, instead of lumping foreign talents.

And even though many national teams benefit from their players training and playing in France, there are cases where they could avoid trying to get them in the French national team (Tatafu).

In other cases, I feel less shame when the country doesn’t believe in the player like in Meafou’s case.

And there are players that never consider switching to the French national team like Niniashvili, Merckler or even Capuozzo, who is French and doesn’t really speak Italian.

We’ll see with Jacques Willis 🥲


But hey, it’s nothing new to Australia and NZ with PI!

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