What do you remember from this loss? The result or the way?Fabien Galthié: Everything is important. When you play a match like that, that’s what you’re looking for, a competitive context. That’s what we wanted: against this Scottish team, in their stadium, in front of their audience… In our collective experience, everything is interesting to analyze, to review, to work on, to live. It gives us an additional experience. That’s okay: a cape also means more experience for the players, for the group.
Is there frustration? We wanted to experience that. We wanted to have this experience, with this audience, with this opponent. Everything we’ve been through, we take it. It’s also part of our collective development, it’s more experience. Obviously, we have a first period at 21-3 and a second where we do not score and we lose. It’s a preparation match.
Are you going to have a headache to make your list for the Worlds? Why a headache? On the contrary, it makes us happy when the players perform. What we want is to be competitive. There are many things that bring us satisfaction. This second period is also of interest to us, to see how the trend could be reversed so radically, particularly in terms of the physical inability to hold the exchange. It’s been four years since I said that emulation is beneficial to the France team. We are on a search for collective performance. This match allows us to grow. It’s part of what we have to go through. We wanted to live an experience like that. There is not too much room for disappointment.
