{"id":394934,"date":"2026-01-28T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394934\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:04:08","slug":"stade-francais-boss-paul-gustard-reacts-to-six-nations-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394934\/","title":{"rendered":"Stade Fran\u00e7ais boss Paul Gustard reacts to Six Nations snub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stade Fran\u00e7ais head coach Paul Gustard believes a couple of his players, in particular, can count themselves unfortunate not to be in France\u2019s Guinness Six Nations<\/a> squad.<\/p>\n

The Parisian club have risen to third in the Top 14<\/a> table yet only have one representative in Fabien Galthi\u00e9\u2019s 42-man squad.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Toulouse<\/a> and Pau, the only two clubs above them in the standings, have 19 players between them.<\/p>\n

Following the withdrawal of Uini Atonio<\/a>, whose career is now over following a heart attack, and his team-mate Paul Boudehent<\/a> through injury, La Rochelle also only have one player involved, as do another powerhouse of the French club game, Clermont.<\/p>\n

According to a report in Midi Olympique, Gustard, his team, and more specifically his players, are not getting the recognition they deserve.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the third-ranked team, but at the moment, only Noah N\u00e9n\u00e9 has been called up to the French national team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, that\u2019s strange; we have a lot of good players. L\u00e9o Barr\u00e9, Louis Carbonnel\u2026 For me, he\u2019s perhaps the best fly-half in France.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uncapped centre N\u00e9n\u00e9, 21, is in his third season of senior pro rugby and has scored seven tries in 16 appearances for his club.<\/p>\n

Full-back Barr\u00e9 has won nine caps for France, the last on the 2025 summer tour to New Zealand, while Carbonel, a member of the triumphant France<\/a> U20 side that dominated the Junior World Cup in 2018 and 2019, has been in the international wilderness since July 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stade Fran\u00e7ais head coach Paul Gustard believes a couple of his players, in particular, can count themselves unfortunate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}