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Michalak (Racing 92) : « On attend le match parfait à l'extérieur »

L'entraîneur adjoint du Racing, Frédéric Michalak, durant le match de Top14 entre l'Union Bordeaux-Begles (UBB) et le Racing 92 au stade Chaban-Delmas à Bordeaux, le 16 juin 2024. (Photo by ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

L’entraîneur adjoint du Racing 92 Frédéric Michalak attend de son équipe qu’elle fournisse une performance de référence en Top 14 à l’extérieur cette saison. Le déplacement à Pau, ce week-end, pourrait en être l’occasion, espère-t-il.

La dernière fois que Frédéric Michalak s’était exprimé devant la presse, c’était à l’issue de la défaite du Racing 92 à Bayonne (32-15, 7e journée).

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L’adjoint de Stuart Lancaster en charge de l’attaque avait alors fustigé le match de ses joueurs : « Ce n’est pas respecter le maillot, l’héritage d’un club. […] On est encore une petite équipe et on doit se remettre en question. »

Depuis, le Racing a battu péniblement Perpignan dans un parfait résumé de son début de saison, alternant le chaud et le froid.

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Frédéric, le Racing 92 est 8e et compte 10 points de retard sur la 2e place avant de se déplacer à Pau. Que vous inspire cette position ?

« On est à notre place. On a montré un début de saison un peu poussif même s’il y a eu de bonnes choses. On perd aussi à Castres et contre La Rochelle dans les dernières minutes et ces points auraient pu nous permettre d’être en haut du tableau. Mais on ne peut pas juger nos performances uniquement en regardant notre nombre de points. Le Top 14 est dur, les joueurs travaillent très dur, toutes les équipes sont compétitives et ce seront les plus résilients qui termineront dans les 6 premiers. »

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Vous aviez eu des mots forts après votre lourde défaite à Bayonne. Vos joueurs ont-ils apporté la réponse que vous attendiez contre Perpignan ?

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« On a fait une très bonne première mi-temps, puis les vieux démons de l’indiscipline sont revenus. On a fait trop de fautes et on a pris trois cartons jaunes. Après, nous entraîneurs sommes encore dans l’émotion après un match et on a tendance à voir le négatif. Quand on prend un peu de recul, on se pose aussi la question de l’engagement et de l’attitude. De ce côté-là, on attend le match parfait à l’extérieur, où on va montrer de l’agressivité et une équipe unie comme on peut le faire durant la semaine. J’espère que nous arriverons à le faire à Pau. »

Pénalités

15
Pénalités concédées
9
3
Cartons jaunes
0
0
Cartons rouges
0

« Nous avons les joueurs pour devenir une grande équipe »

Être une grande équipe, n’est-ce pas aussi savoir tuer les matchs à domicile quand l’occasion se présente et récupérer des bonus, ce que vous n’avez pas su faire contre l’USAP ?

« Il faut savoir être impitoyable en effet. On a fait une très grosse entame contre Perpignan mais le retour de vestiaire a péché. Oui, les grandes équipes ont cette capacité à domicile de réenclencher une dynamique et de ne pas faire autant de fautes. On s’est pénalisés tout seuls à en faire autant et à ne pas être pragmatique dans les zones de marque. »

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Depuis le début de la saison, le Racing peut produire de belles séquences de jeu et subir de grosses baisses de régime au cours d’un même match. Comment l’expliquer ?

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« Sur 80 minutes, il y a des temps forts et des temps faibles et c’est toute la difficulté de savoir gérer ces temps faibles. Si vous prenez deux cartons jaunes pendant un temps faible, c’est plus difficile. Mieux gérer ces périodes, mieux concrétiser aussi nos temps forts… nous parlons évidemment de ces sujets. Comment être meilleur tactiquement ? Comment être plus clair dans notre façon de jouer ? Ce dont je suis persuadé, c’est que nous avons les joueurs pour devenir une grande équipe. Mais le résultat final fera ou non de nous une grande équipe. »

« On ne peut pas se comparer à Toulouse »

L’équipe n’a-t-elle pas aussi perdu en leadership pour gérer ces temps faibles avec les départs cet été de plusieurs joueurs d’expérience comme Siya Kolisi, Wenceslas Lauret ou Juan Imhoff ?

« Nous avons dans l’équipe actuelle des joueurs qui ont du leadership. Je pense à Owen Farrell ou Nolann Le Garrec malgré sa jeunesse. On a aussi du poids devant en termes d’expérience. Maintenant, il est évident que l’expérience collective, il faudra la créer et cela demandera du temps ! On essaie de l’accélérer sur et en dehors du terrain. On a eu 18 départs, dont certains anciens joueurs, et je suis d’accord qu’il faut recréer cette énergie et cette expérience collective. Plus on va jouer, plus on connaîtra d’échecs et plus nous en tirerons les leçons. Il faut passer par là pour être meilleur demain. »

Vous êtes issue de l’école toulousaine, labellisée “french flair”. Comment concilier cela dans l’animation avec la vision anglaise très structurée du manager Stuart Lancaster et des autres Anglais du club ?

« Nos derniers essais ont pourtant bien été marqués sur des contre-attaques, donc sur du jeu déstructuré ! Maintenant, essayer de jouer comme Toulouse, cela ne se fera pas au Racing pour la bonne et simple raison que le Racing a sa propre identité et elle est différente. On ne peut pas se comparer à Toulouse, c’est impossible. Et puis le french flair, ça vient très souvent d’un bon jeu au pied d’occupation qui permet d’enclencher des contre-attaques et des jeux de transition. On est capables de le faire ici au Racing. »

Comment ?

« Ici, ce n’est pas l’école anglaise mais l’école du Racing. On a tous des parcours différents, on doit trouver ensemble le meilleur liant et c’est ce qui fait la richesse de ce club. Derrière, j’ai des Anglais, des Français, des Fidjiens… et la question est de savoir comment, avec nos cultures différentes, bien jouer ensemble. C’est le jeu du Racing et je sais que ça va venir. »

Top 14

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
Toulouse
8
6
2
0
29
2
Bordeaux
8
6
2
0
28
3
Bayonne
8
5
3
0
22
4
Stade Rochelais
8
5
3
0
22
5
Toulon
8
4
4
0
19
6
Clermont
8
4
4
0
19
7
Castres
8
4
4
0
19
8
Racing 92
8
4
4
0
18
9
Lyon
8
4
4
0
18
10
Pau
8
3
5
0
15
11
Montpellier
8
3
5
0
14
12
Stade Francais
8
3
5
0
14
13
Perpignan
8
3
5
0
14
14
Vannes
8
2
6
0
11

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The Mickey Mouse playoff system that made the entire regular season redundant

The playoff system has never been redundant Ben, it was merely important to fewer teams, just those vying for top seed. After that it was simply about qualifying.


The format is arguably worse now. I can see the Canes slumping to a point were the return of key components, like their starting midfield, is now going to happen too late for them due to the reduced playoff spots. So we don’t get the perfect jeopardy like what we got with the Crusaders last year, were deservedly (despite showing they easily had a top 4 team when fit) they missed out because they were even more pathetic than that early team deserved. A couple more bonus points with some better leadership, on and off field, would have given the Crusaders a deserving. As reported last year have we not seen a more perfect finals run in.


Objectively easier finals qualification is better suited to shorter competitions, and we know SR is the “sprint” version amongst it’s rugby equivalents. The Top 14 is probably the worst competition in this respect, with it’s length with a double round robin should have a football styled champion. The Premiership, with it’s smaller base but also double round robin, was pretty much perfectly suited to it’s smaller 4 team playoff. Super Rugby, with it’s much shorter season (smaller amount of games, and most importantly over a much shorter period, would be able suited to a 6 team play off series if it had a comparative round robin. It doesn’t. Playing a bunch of random extra games, within your own division, requires you to expand the qualification reach. Super Rugby was another perfectly balanced competition.


If you want to look subjectively, sure, there are a lot of cool facets of tighter qualification, they just aren’t sensible applicable to SR so you have to be a realist.


I’m pretty sure you yourself have authored articles showing you need to be in the top four come finals time to win Super Rugby.

Competition parity this year just seems to be part luck, but we’ll take it.

The closer parity is simply more about circumstance, I agree. The Lions tour has just as much to do with the consistency and early standards in Australian players performances, and random factors balancing the NZ sides. The predictable improvement of the “Pacific Powers” another key factor, but with the case of extra support like NZR help raise their profile, as in the “Ardie” factor, possibly able to happen a year sooner than it has.


Still, as I have highlighted on previous articles, I wouldn’t be surprised if these results were nearly as predictable as they were last year, and that it was just the fixture ‘creation’ by new management that has artificially created a bit more hype and unrealistic perception on the competitions ‘parity’, in these early stages.

Super Rugby Pacific has done the right thing and got rid of most TMO interventions that have plagued the game over the last few years and impacted one World Cup final.

I wouldn’t have minded if they just put their own spin on WR’s structure. While you don’t go on to describe what the two situations are that remain, one that I think could still have been of value keeping is for the ability for the TMO to rule live.


The fact that several of the WC’s TMO officials were overly zealous in their ability to over rule the onfield decision does not mean there wouldn’t have been value in a good southern hemisphere run contingent from simply adding value and support to the game ref. Take the case last weekend as the perfect example. While I don’t believe it would have been of any real benefit for the Highlanders to have had advantage at the death (the same sequence would have still played out), looking in isolation one can clearly tell that was a live situation where the ref said he was obstructed from making a call, and if the current rules would have allowed, the TMO, like us on TV, could easily have told him to play advantage for the infringement. In another situation that type of officiating could have made all the difference to the quality and accuracy of the outcome. Views of the comp would be a lot different if it was clearly as case that the Highlanders were robbed of a deserved victory.


All told, the game is obviously much better off for what changes have been made with officiating, though this is not really isolated to SR. SR is just the only comp to have start with these.

If you want back in, put your hands up for some real competition, don’t ask for handouts. No conference systems.

We are currently in a conference system Ben, I’m afraid you’re beating the wrong drum there and you own subjective (and flawed) opinions are coming through quite clearly. As spitballed on the article a few days ago, it’s hard to see a true league table where it is either a full round robin or double round robin happen, there is still going to be some amount of divisional derby matchs going on to fill out the season.


Conferences are also the only way forward, so get on board. I would love for SARU to be able to add a couple of regional sides in Super Rugby, using the countries burgeoning playerbase. It might be far easier, and more advantageous, for SA to add to SR than say try to enlarge the URC, or go it on their own with a professional scene. They could leave their clubs to themselves and take control of running a highveld team out of Cheetahs country, and a lowveld team wherever they would like a new attempt at a ‘Kings’ team. I can’t see the clubs ever rejoining SR.


Not surprised the article is well off the mark Ben.


One thing they could do to further improve the ‘jeopardy’ though is to have a separate world club table where each seasons finalists are awarding ranking points going towards selecting who takes part in the biennial (right?) world champs the Champions Cup is hosting in the future. I’d normally expect the government to simply send whoever the most recent finalists are but I reckon creating a way to have those instead be judged by contribution since the last edition (however frequent this idea might turn out) could be a winner this new management will work out and capitalize on. It would also help add to that jeopardy if say ranking points were only allocated to the top 6 of an 8 team finals format.

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