Stade Français

Not from memory, to be honest.

I think the Stade Francais that you just talked about is pretty horrific.

The Stade Francais, if I had a choice between this lie look and the Stade Francais, I'm picking the lie look.

The Stade Francais is that bad.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, it's not exactly... you know a big ass arm it's very fine margins and they're both terrible so no

In the sort of like Washington DC area, there's some really quite strong links between and that is because to be fair because it's where a lot of people settled when you know people went from the united kingdom over to america and so there's like historic links there's a high school called gonzaga boys high um i might have to factor myself there but i'm pretty certain that's still that's still the name um and essentially that has been like a rugby school for years That's been a place where people go through.

So Jack Isgro, who is the USA loosehead prop, he also plays for Stade Francais in the top 14 at the moment.

He went from that school and then he went to one of the biggest colleges, which is Cal in California, funnily enough.

And then he came back to play for Old Glory DC.

I think he did, I want to say he did six seasons with Old Glory before he got a medical joker contract with Stade Francais.

Now he's obviously stayed on with Stade Francais.

So...

There are these hotbeds, like New York has a lot of schools that play.

I mean, it's not like, okay, come in, you've got a weekend within a week, here's your first game, go and you've got to be excellent.

Celso, he kind of came out of the blue, but he's been playing consistently for Stade Francais and probably one of the top two club leagues in the world.

But then the rest, they all had probably a tour.

If not a tour, they've had... two weeks going into the third test when I'm thinking of Juto Picardo, the center.

I...

It made me a better player going to Stade Francais, playing with Sergio Parisse, Dimitri Szarzewski, Pierre Rabadan, Juan Hernandez, um, you know, some of the best players in the world.

I'd come back to England camp, you know, you're, you're looked after.

I mean, albeit those days when I was in France, I never missed an England game, and I was playing with, uh, under the guys, uh, under the coaching staff, M- Martin Johnson and John Wells.