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Struggling Stade appoint ex-Springboks coach Meyer
By Ben Spratt
Former South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer has been appointed as the sporting director and head coach of Top 14 strugglers Stade Francais.
Stade are 12th in the Top 14 in a miserable season, with Meyer now replacing Olivier Azam and Julien Dupuy, who had been in charge since Greg Cooper's January departure.
The 50-year-old has signed a two-year contract, with the option for a third, as he takes his first job since guiding the Springboks to third place at the 2015 World Cup.
"It's a great honour for me to join a club with such rich heritage," Meyer said. "I cannot wait to get involved at Stade Francais.
"The mission is ambitious – I cannot do it alone. I'm very happy to team up with the players and all the figures at the club."
Stade owner Hans-Peter Wild added that the appointment goes some way to show his ambition for the club.
"The arrival of world-renowned coach Heyneke Meyer to lead the Stade Francais project confirms the ambition we have for the club within Top 14 and on the European stage," he said.
"I trust Heyneke to build the most professional team and staff to win. He has my fullest support for himself and his plan of action."
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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