The Ile-de-France club called on the Top 14 referee, who will act as a weekly consultant.
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Stade Français will consult the Top 14 referee Romain Poite to remedy his problems of indiscipline, still visible on Saturday during a defeat in Biarritz. Stade Français, twelfth in the standings with one point ahead of the relegation zone, lost on the lawn of the red lantern (17-14), conceding a second try at the end of the match after temporary exclusion from his South African second line Juan John van der Mescht. If the Stade Français decided to call on Romain Poite, the latter “absolutely does not integrate“the coaching of the club but will be”consultant on the discipline one day a week“, he told AFP.
Romain Poite, who recently said goodbye to the international scene, will now intervene with the Parisian club, which has pointed out the indiscipline of its players at the start of the season. Explanations. https://t.co/bgDww8Ay8L
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The mission can continue beyond this period or end “if the work carried out bears fruit“, specified the referee of 46 years, with the whistle Saturday during the match between Biarritz and the Parisian club. On the other hand, Romain Poite will not referee any more meeting of the French stage at least”as long as there is a work of reconciliation“with the Parisian club, he said. He lives elsewhere, in 46 years old, his last season as a referee after having already led his last international match, Scotland – Australia (15-13), on November 7 in Edinburgh.
This type of mission, carried out at the request of the clubs to the National Arbitration Directorate (DNA), is part of the attributions of the referees of the French Rugby Federation (FFR). It is to be distinguished from the approach of a referee who decides to abandon the whistle to integrate the staff of a club like Alexandre Ruiz, who became a coach last summer “in charge of rucks, contact attitudes and discipline” Montpellier.