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Racing Metro signed Carter

Started by clevermike10 REPLIES346 VIEWS· 21 Dec 2014, 12:37
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21 Dec 2014, 12:37
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21 Dec 2014, 12:37#1

The following from ESPN


"Racing Metro owner Jacky Lorenzetti has revealed he turned down the chance to sign Jonny Wilkinson.


In the week where Racing Metro announced the signing of All Blacks superstar Dan Carter on a three-year deal, Lorenzetti revealed he was offered the chance to sign Wilkinson before he agreed to join Toulon.


When Lorenzetti was offered the chance to sign Wilkinson, he rejected the opportunity due to misgivings over his injury record but he says the lessons learned from that mistake persuaded him to push through and sign Carter. Carter has now become the game's first £1 million player despite him being 33 when he arrives at Racing next term.


"A few years ago we were offered Jonny Wilkinson," Lorenzetti told Midi Olympique. "With Pierre Berbizier [then Racing Métro coach] we studied his CV but we didn't want to take the risk. Jonny had played six matches in three years.

"I'm not a poker player. Mourad [Boudjellal] played and won."


I think in the case of  Carter Jacky Lorenzetti has become a poker player of note - and it may cost thm dearly.   He may have turned Wilkinson down because of his injury record - but Carter is becoming increasingly frail.   At 33 he may even be frailer than he is at present.   

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21 Dec 2014, 14:54
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21 Dec 2014, 14:54#2
 Congrats to Carter  He deserves a big payday at the end of his great career, hopefully his trophies will include consecutive RWC. He deserves all the good things that come his way, a credit to the game.
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22 Dec 2014, 13:50
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22 Dec 2014, 13:50#3
Desperate times Michael. They need a 10... now! That aint Goosey. As frail as you think he might be, he is tougher than Goosen and has a rugby brain, a real rugby brain. Who can run a game better ? If you think Goosen is the better bet then you are beyond redemption. Mark my words, Carter will out-class Goosen.
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22 Dec 2014, 14:02
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22 Dec 2014, 14:02#4
"Mark my words . . ."

Okay, 2 out of 10.
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22 Dec 2014, 14:05
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22 Dec 2014, 14:05#5
2 out of 10? I'm a lot closer to 100%. Best not draw attention to the lengthy list of failures you backed. I hope you aren't a gambling man! 
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22 Dec 2014, 14:12
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22 Dec 2014, 14:12#6
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22 Dec 2014, 15:23
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22 Dec 2014, 15:23#7
  Dan Carter to become rugby's best-paid player as he signs Racing Métro deal Dan Carter: ‘It’s going to be an awesome adventure for me and my family’. Photograph: Andrew Cowie/Colorsport/Corbis

Australian Associated Press

Thursday 18 December 2014 04.31 GMT


Dan Carter is poised to become the world’s highest-paid rugby player when the All Blacks great moves to France after next year’s Rugby World Cup on a three-year deal with Racing Métro. The 32-year-old fly-half, capped 102 times by New Zealand, announced he had signed with the Paris club at a media conference in Auckland on Thursday.


“It’s going to be an awesome adventure for me and my family,” he said of the move to the French club. “I know what the French culture and their rugby culture is like and it’s something I really love.” Pay was not discussed at the media conference but the press in Europe reports he will be on €1.5m euros ($A2.25m) a year, making him the best-paid player in the game.   (and fully deserved)

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The All Blacks coach, Steve Hansen, said Carter still had a lot to offer at international level. “He is still in the midst of a wonderful career, both as a provincial and Super Rugby player and an All Black, and will leave us as the greatest first five-eighth ever,” Hansen said. “Whilst he hasn’t finished yet in New Zealand, he has already set the benchmark for first five play, and we look forward to seeing him out on the paddock in 2015.”


The New Zealand Rugby chief executive, Steve Tew, also paid tribute to Carter, saying the All Blacks’ success over the past decade has largely centred around Richie McCaw and him. “So we genuinely say thanks,” Tew said. “It’s too early to start doing anything emotional in that regard, because there’s still plenty of footy to play.”


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22 Dec 2014, 15:57
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I am delighted about the good offer made to Carter - he had a sterling career and deserve the offer.   However, I think that the Clu may have made a bad investment - taking into account the fact that Carter has become injury-prone and there is a definite slide-down in his performances over the past two years - ie when he in fact was able to play.
However, we will see how he goes with the Club and hope for their sake he makes the grade.    


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22 Dec 2014, 16:04
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22 Dec 2014, 16:04#9
 Lestalbemorons
Coming from a person that Steyn is the best flyhalf we had over the last 20 years - your predictions are rich and a joke.     Steyn is payed in the minor games involving his club and is known for buggering up constantly - hence he is mostly on the bench for Stade Francais.
Goosen is playing regularly inteh starting line-up for Racing Metro and was remakably successful - so if Carter plays like he did oin the recnt Scotland game - he will not be selected to start for Racing Metro.   
however - we wil watch wht heppens and see what he manage to do at Racing Metro next year - Rooinek is right about one thing though - you are likely to be wrong.  
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22 Dec 2014, 18:07
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22 Dec 2014, 18:07#10
 @mike,
obviously there's a risk when you contract a 33yo player (as there was a risk when wilko was contracted) but the last spell of injuries that Carter has suffered is not only attributable to the age but also to the simple bad luck.
When you pass the 30' you become a bit more injury-prone so you can have more injuries but not in the way Carter had. That was also bad luck, he had very different injuries, Achilles heel which is always very dificult to heal (and he had a relapse), broken leg (which is just bad luck), etc.

But before all this happens, next season we'll have the last chance of watching him play in the SH and I'm sure it will be memorable. Carter is eager to prove that he's still the best flyhalf in the world and the incumbent AB.
And he'll prove it if Blackladder put him in that spot (not at 12 like last year) with Slade sharing the wing and FB with Dagg.
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23 Dec 2014, 12:54
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23 Dec 2014, 12:54#11
 Another article about Carter:


O'Driscoll backs Carter for World Cup

23rd Dec 2014, 09:13

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Key man: Dan Carter



Brian O'Driscoll has backed Dan Carter as the man to claim the ten jersey for New Zealand next year if they are to retain the World Cup.

The all-time record points scorer in international rugby has had a tough 18 months with a string of injuries keeping him sidelined for much of this year.

In his absence Beauden Barrett and Aaron Cruden have stepped up, with both producing some impressive displays.

That has led to questions about whether Carter deserves to start when fully-fit, however O'Driscoll, who retired in 2014, believes that Carter should remain at the top of pecking order for New Zealand until the 2015 World Cup.

"Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level and he kicks his goals better than both of them," O'Driscoll said.

"If he's got the scoreboard ticking over, then I just can't see them being beaten."

While he believes Carter will be key to New Zealand's hopes of retaining their crown, O'Driscoll also feels that the extra skills learned as youngsters serve the All Blacks well compared with countries with a greater gym focus.

"They've got high, high skill levels," O'Driscoll said of the All Blacks.

"The Polynesian element that they have playing for them, the [Julian] Saveas of the world, are pretty strong without going to the gym.

"I don't think the gym-monkey thing applies to them as much as it does over here. There is way more of a focus in New Zealand from an early age on skills.

"They do everything with a ball. They do all their fitness work with a ball and that's why they have better skill levels.

"That's where New Zealand have the balance. They have that physicality, but they are able to mix their game up.

"They play a different brand of rugby to anyone else and they play a really clever game. Any time they lose their shape, they get it back quicker than anyone else.

"They've got this pod structure of second row and front row playing off 9 and 10, and if it breaks down, they seamlessly get back into a pattern."
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