Good morning and welcome to Le Bon, La Brute et le Rugby.

It's time for France 2023, seven weeks of great sport, great food and delicious wine

all in the company of the three Musketeers, Monsieur James Haskell, Michel Tindel, and

Alexandre Le Paine. Have fun, but not as much fun as you did in New Zealand 2011, but

fun nonetheless. Bon voyage.

Hello Dream Team, welcome along to this week's main show of the Good the Bad and the Rugby

Bautier by our very good friends at Continental Tires. The dust is settling on all things

France 2023 and we thought we'd have a bit of a whip round with the Good the Bad and

the ugly of the tournament that was from your perspective and it's lovely to have you

on the wrong side. You have been right in amongst it all, was it? Was it everything you

wanted it to be a parking French results to one side? He was very vocal. And then after

the quarterfinals I haven't heard of it, it's gone very quiet, disappeared into it. I

just keep getting bitches of classes of red wine saying I'm still depressed. Can you separate

France the team from France the tournament? Not really, no. No, not really, but you can

also celebrate the Irish fans who made it a special event. I think, look, in a moment

where we're looking at where should rugby go, how do we promote this, how do we break boundaries,

how do we extend a little bit the game. You just need the metro filled with green jerseys

and everybody's singing along. You just need the stadiums to be absolutely rampacked with

some quality rugby especially in the quarterfinals, those two quarterfinals were out of this

world. Record them, send them over. Somebody who's never heard anything about rugby would

like shit. I want to know more. So that you can't really, whether France won or lose, you

can still celebrate those moments because they are precious. They're the go for it. But

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