With the news that our Elite 1 coaching team has again left the club at the end of the season, we now have a lengthy list of ex-Dracs who have been in or around the club but without a chance of the top job have either moved on or drifted away.

Cyrille Gossard
Vincent DuPort
Greg Bird (ok not French but has been around Stade GB long enough).

That's just in the current French domestic season. Throw in Benoit Albert and others whose names now escape me into the mix in the last couple of years and you wonder why only Thomas Bosc seems to be kept close.

(Agreed Sam Moa (again not French) and Mathias Pala are in the current set up but not to a greater extent) Maybe Julien Touxagas will stay on for St Esteve, we shall see.

Rumours in the Perpignan press have suggested Jerome Guisset could take over the reins.

I wouldn't know about how much influence McNamara has over the set-up of the reserves. You'd think that'd be a director of football's job.