Rugby: the tournament of the 6 VI nations
The Councils to bet on the tournament of the 6 VI nations
Pierre Mignoni, how do you accommodate this fourth establishment in this Tournament?
I am of course very content that this confidence is granted to me. I had never connected matches in the Tournament as much. The fact of playing Ireland after Italy had already done me much good to the moral one. It is a trick which I had not lived too much before.
Do you have the impression to have marked points like Bernard Laporte affirmed?
Perhaps but I do not see myself yet with the World cup. As long as I will not have the list under the eyes, I will not be sure to be there. For the moment, I take what one gives me. I know that it is important for me to finish this Tournament well and for the team to gain this match against Scotland. I will make the assessment at the end. One grants a little more confidence to me. I am very happy because it is that which I needed. But that stops there.
For the first time perhaps of your career, you seem to be in pole position…
(A Little constrained) I do not know… I want, and that was always the case, to play a maximum of matches and to impose to me in team of France. In a career, there are tops and bottoms. Today, I do not feel at all titular or regarded as number 1. The half of fray number 1 will be that which, I hope, will play the final of the World cup in a few months. We are not there. There are still stages to cross and stages to be passed. I am still very far from all that.
Do you think much of having evolved/moved since your beginnings at the Blue ones in 1997?
I arrived very young person at the high level and I evolved/moved rather slowly. I would have perhaps preferred to arrive a little later and to be immediately at the top of my art. I since worked much and I smell myself better from now on at this station. Front, I think that I played much more for me, on my qualities speed. I learned how to play more for the others. Today, it is the team which I want to make well play, not me.
“We are on the good way”
How do you live your association with David Skrela?
All occurs well. The things evolve/move normally day after day. The Irish hinge Stringer-O' Gara was not done in three matches. Even if there are tops and bottoms, there are complementarity and confidence one towards the other.
Are your destinies dependant?
It is true that with David, our fate is a little dependant because I do not butt. But I cannot say that one is very close thanks to that. The things have quite advanced since the beginning of the Tournament but we still have a margin of progression which appears obvious to me as for all the hinges. We are on the good way.
Did the defeat in England leave traces?
We did not completely digest it. I hope that we will make use of it to revolt us. We have a Tournament to gain. It is important that one reaches that point. For that, it quickly will be necessary to go back the head to the place and to release Saturday.
Which glance do you relate to Scotland?
It is a very painful team to play. She takes many risks. If you them presses well, that can be an advantage. But if they develop their play, that becomes more complicated. This match will not be simple. The Scot will come to Paris to prevent us from gaining the Tournament. We will have to impose our play.