Sébastien Chabal.

Let me introduce one of the best player of the National French Team : Sébastien Chabal.
He was born in Valence the 8.12.77. He plays this year wint th Sale Sharks team in England but the next Year he will be play with Racing-Metro 92 team. He is known for his violent play. He plays at the Back Rown position.

He began to play rugby at 9 years old, but at this time he disliked. However, he began again to play rugby with Beauvallon team at 16 years old. After this, he played with the Valence team and he joined the Bouguoin-Jailleu team in 1998. So, at this time he is become professional. He has played with Bouguoin until 2004. At this time he would join the Toulouse team, but finaly he has joined the english team Sale Sharks. He played at the Back Row position in this team. With Sale Sharks, he won the Guinness Premiership in 2006.

copyright : Sébastien Chabal

He has played for the first time with the French time the 4 March 2000 against Scotland. He has played 47 matches for French Teal and has made 6 touchdowns.
Let me introduce all the matchs with the French team.
He has played 14 matchs for the Six Nations championship and has scored 3 touchdowns. He has won the Six Nation championship in 2007.
He has played 9 matchs for the World cup and has made 2 touchdowns. On these 9 matchs, he has won 5 matchs and lost 4 matchs. His best ranking with the French team is the loose in semifinal the 13.10.2007 against England on the score of 14-10.

Pro D2 : the semifinal

This week, all team played the last match to second division : the Pro D2.
The Racing-Metro 92 won this championship with 107 points. The next year, they will play with the rugby elite. The French championship TOP14 will contain two north team : Stade Français and Racing-Metro 92.

With this rising, this team has recruited lot of news players. The two mainly players are Sébastien Chabal from the English team Sale, and Sébastien Nallet from Castres. This two players are two best players from the national French team. Sébastien Nallet is too the captain to this latter team.
Moreover, Racing-Metro 92 has recruited too :
Benjamin Noirot (Biarritz), Jacques Cronje (Biarritz), Fabien Fortassin (Montauban), Fabrice Culine (Agen), Juan-Pablo Orlandi (Rovigo), Clément Baïocco (Montpellier), Rémi Vaquin (La Rochelle), François Steyn (sharks).

Let me introduce this club. This team was created in 2001 with the melting of Racing CF and US metro. their stadium is Yves du Manoir which can contain 7000 peoples. Their president is Jacky Lorenzetti and they have two coaches : Pierre Berbizier and Simon Mannix.
Concerning this Year, Racin-Metro 92 have conceded 469 points and have made 73 touchdowns and have scored 754 points.The bests rugby-players of this team are Andrew Merhtens with 265 points and Sireli Bobo with 14 touchdowns.

copyright : Racing-Metro 92

Concerning the other team, 4 clubs will play the semifinal of the PRO D2 championship. These two matchs are : Agen aginst Oyonnax and Albi against La Rochelle. After this seminifinal, the two winners will be played between them. The winner of this last match will play with the rugby elite the newt year.

Now, we will wait until June 31 to know which team will join the TOP 14 with Racing Metro 92.

The 23rd and 24th round of the French Championship.

Due to vacancy, I will resume the results of the 23rd and 24th round of the French Championship.
Lets deals with results of these two turns :

The 23th turn :

Friday, April 17th 2009
20:35	Biarritz	12-10	Perpignan
Saturday, April 18th 2009
14:30	Mont-de-Marsan	21-15	Castres
	Stade Français	24-15	Montpellier
	Bayonne	61-10	Bourgoin
	Clermont	52-7	Brive
16:30	Toulon	14-6	Toulouse
20:35	Montauban	15-20	Dax

The 24th turn :

Friday, April 24th 2009
20:35	Castres	16-21	Stade Français
Saturday, April 25th 2009
14:30	Montpellier	20-11	Bayonne
	Biarritz	19-12	Toulon
	Toulouse	13-6	Bourgoin
	Montauban	15-10	Brive
16:30	Perpignan	20-16	Clermont
20:35	Dax	12-8	Mont-de-Marsan

At the moment of the 23rd round, we have saw lot of touchdown. The two best matches was Clermont against Brive with seven touchdowns, and Bayonne against Bourgoin with 8 touchdowns.
The best rugby-player of this turn was Sam Gerber, who is the 3/4 center of Bayonne, with 4 touchdowns.

Sam Gerber : copyright : Equipe.fr

An other big surprise was the defeat of Toulouse, the leader of the French championship, against Toulon. Before this match Toulon was the 12th of the championship. This defeat has for effect that Perpignan has took the first place.

For the 24th round, there was no many touchdown and any surprise.
The strength team won their match. Perpignan has preserved his first place with the victory against the 4th : Clermont.

See below the ranking after this turn :

Team		Pts	pts bonus	W.	N.	L.	+	-	Diff.
1 Perpignan		83	9	18	1	5	564	339	225
2 Toulouse		83	7	19	0	5	522	307	215
3 Stade Français		76	10	16	1	7	583	383	200
4 Clermont		73	15	14	1	9	613	361	252
5 Biarritz		62	10	13	0	11	462	376	86
6 Bayonne		61	5	13	2	9	435	442	-7
7 Brive		60	6	12	3	9	434	444	-10
8 Montauban		53	9	10	2	12	466	515	-49
9 Montpellier		50	6	11	0	13	387	517	-130
10 Castres		43	9	7	3	14	424	474	-50
11 Toulon		42	10	7	2	15	364	473	-109
12 Bourgoin		40	10	7	1	16	401	557	-156
13 Dax		37	7	7	1	16	360	537	-177
14 Mont-de-Marsan		29	7	5	1	18	314	604	-290

Now, it stay just two turn. Perpignan and Toulouse play for the first place. Stade Français and Clermont play for the 3rd place.
Biarritz, Bayonne and Brive play for a place at the H cup (International cup).
Castres, Toulon, Bougoin and Dax play to stay in the top14.

For Mont-de-Marsan, they lower to the ProD2 the next year.

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The 25th turn set this week.