He thought he never found the top 14. Ten years after a brief stint in the elite of French rugby with his Montpellier training club, Fred Quercy will again be able to play at the highest hexagonal level with Montauban, a surprise of which he is the captain. But the third line keeps a bitter memory of his few meetings at this level disputed with the MHR (2012-2015), where he and the young people of his generation evolved the orders of a manager called Fabien Galkié.
“We were rotting in pros, with our current big coach of the French team Fabien Galkié who is I believe the worst person on Earth,” he recalls in an interview with Rugbypass on Wednesday. He was both the best coach I had, indisputably – and yet I have had good in my career – but also the biggest shit on a human level. »»
“It was lamentable”
“We had no confidence of the coaches, nothing. It was lamentable, also explains Fred Quercy in this interview. […] We felt that we were not interested. We were also paid for the slingshot. If it is not the fact of arriving in pro – because I had worked for a long time for that – I do not have good memories. Nothing positive, nor coaches, mentalities, or how we were treated. »»
It is not the first of his former players to criticize the management of Fabien Galkié. In 2013, the former three-quarter center of Montpellier Geoffrey Doumayrou, who left for the Stade Français, explained to want his ex-coach. “You say what you want. But try to have a career like me, “then retorted the technician, in front of the cameras of Canal +, after the meeting between Parisians and Héraultais.
“When he doesn’t want you in his team, he quickly makes you understand and makes you eat Every day, in 2021 explained to the Parisian the old third line of Montpellier, Marc Giraud. He is destabilizing, and quickly disrespectful. You have to be good in your skin if you work with him. The former French stadium player Raphaël Poulain had also criticized his ex-coach deemed “hard, brittle”.
Fred Quercy and Montauban are launching their top 14 season on Saturday on the lawn of the Stade Français. An unusual schedule wanted by the Canal + broadcaster to multiply the appointments during this first day.
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