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France great Michalak returns to Lyon in new role
By Ben Spratt
Frederic Michalak has returned to Lyon in an advisory role after retiring at the conclusion of last season.
The France great called time on his playing career ahead of the end of the 2017-18 campaign, having joined Lyon from Top 14 rivals Toulon in 2016.
But Michalak is already back involved with the club, taking on a role to support president Yann Roubert and manager Pierre Mignoni, with his responsibilities including recruitment and training.
Michalak said: "I am delighted to be able to start my second life at LOU Rugby and bring my expertise and experience to the club."
Roubert added: "It is a pleasure to continue working with Frederic, who still has much to offer LOU Rugby."
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Steve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
Go to commentsBut still Australians. Only Australia can help itself seems to be the key message.
Blaming Kiwis is deflecting from the actual problem.
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