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Toulon appoint a new manager

By Online Editors
Wednesday 6 Jun 2018

NEWS: Patrice Collazo has been named new Toulon manager the club president Mourad Boudjellal announced.

Collazo has been appointed in place of Fabien Galthie after a disappointing season for the Top 14 giants.

Galthie, who oversaw Toulon's exits from both the European Champions Cup and Top play-offs, is the fifth manager to have been removed from the post in two years following Bernard Laporte, Diego Dominguez, Mike Ford and Richard Cockerill.

"This morning Fabien Galthie presented his resignation to Toulon Rugby Club. A resignation which I accepted," Boudjellal said.

Galthie's departure "is my failure, it's a disappointment. We were dealing with someone competent but it didn't work out", Boudjellal added.

Former France scrumhalf Galthie will, however, stay at Toulon where he will assume charge of the youth training centre in an unpaid role, free to leave the club at any point.

Collazo, who was previously with La Rochelle, will be aided by ex-Toulon players Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (defence, line-out) and Sebastien Tillous-Borde (backs).

Agence France-Presse

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