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Vahaamahina ruled out of Top 14 play-offs
By Jack Davies
Clermont Auvergne will be without Sebastien Vahaamahina for the Top 14 play-offs after the France second row was ruled out for "several months" with a fractured tibia.
Vahaamahina was forced off five minutes into the second half of Saturday's Champions Cup final, which ended in a 28-17 victory for Saracens in Edinburgh.
And Clermont have now confirmed that the 25-year-old - capped 25 times by France - will miss the remainder of the season.
Clermont face Montpellier or Racing 92 in the semi-finals after ending the Top 14 regular season in second.
#Officiel #InfirmerieASM Fracture du tibia et fin de saison pour Sébastien Vahaamahina ! https://t.co/axmEYTirg4 pic.twitter.com/UrM7E7zeH6
— ASM Rugby (@ASMOfficiel) May 15, 2017
Franck Azema's men are looking to win the French domestic title for only the second time, having finished as runners-up on 11 occasions.
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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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