Albert Rosenfeld
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Remi Casty arrives in Sydney in December just in time for Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations.
In the meantime we will all have a chance to watch him play for France in the World Cup against Papua-New Guinea, New Zealand and Samoa in October and November. Unfortunately almost all the French players come from the Catalans club (because the incompetent English administration of the RFL have been slow to introduce a second French club into Super League), so it means that New Zealand is in effect playing against one Super League club minus its foreign stars. The prospects of France winning that game against the heavy firepower of the Kiwis is very remote. So in that game Remi will be having to keep up the morale of the team, as well as his own. France's game against Papua-New Guinea will be more evenly matched.
On the field Remi is a tough dude who does not take step backwards. He will make the hard yards up the middle. He will tackle hard. He could get involved in a bit of argy-bargy if opposing players start to needle him. Nevertheless Trent Robinson should be able to keep him in line so as not to give away penalties. However off the field he is going to have a problem with the media because his French accented English is very rich and hard to understand sometimes. So I suggest to all the journos reading this: speak slowly and listen carefully when interviewing Remi.
In the meantime we will all have a chance to watch him play for France in the World Cup against Papua-New Guinea, New Zealand and Samoa in October and November. Unfortunately almost all the French players come from the Catalans club (because the incompetent English administration of the RFL have been slow to introduce a second French club into Super League), so it means that New Zealand is in effect playing against one Super League club minus its foreign stars. The prospects of France winning that game against the heavy firepower of the Kiwis is very remote. So in that game Remi will be having to keep up the morale of the team, as well as his own. France's game against Papua-New Guinea will be more evenly matched.
On the field Remi is a tough dude who does not take step backwards. He will make the hard yards up the middle. He will tackle hard. He could get involved in a bit of argy-bargy if opposing players start to needle him. Nevertheless Trent Robinson should be able to keep him in line so as not to give away penalties. However off the field he is going to have a problem with the media because his French accented English is very rich and hard to understand sometimes. So I suggest to all the journos reading this: speak slowly and listen carefully when interviewing Remi.
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