Lying Bastareaud forgiven

Lying Bastareaud forgiven

21 Jan 2010

Marc Lievremont says he has forgiven Mathieu Bastareaud for lying last season and has included the centre in the French Six Nations squad.

In June last year, Bastareaud suffered an eye injury and claimed five people attacked him in Wellington when he returned to the team hotel following the 14-10 defeat to the All Blacks. Security cameras, however, showed video footage of him entering the hotel unharmed.

Bastareaud then admitted to lying and confessed that he injured himself when he fell in his room because he was drunk.

The FFR punished the centre with 18 sessions of community service to benefit amateur rugby, but he never received a ban.

‘The unhappy episode is forgotten,’ said head coach Lievremont. ‘Bastareaud deserves to be back because he is performing well with Stade Francais and has started to do the community service.’

Lievremont has also recalled scrumhalf Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, flyhalf Benjamin Boyet, wings Aurelien Rougerie and Julien Malzieu and fullback Clement Poitrneaud.

France Six Nations squad:

Forwards: Thomas Domingo (Clermont), Luc Ducalcon (Castres), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Français), Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), William Servat (Stade Toulousain), Dimitri Szarzewski (Stade Français), Sébastien Chabal (Racing Metro), Romain Millo-Chulski (Stade Toulousain), Lionel Nallet (Racing Metro), Pascal Papé (Stade Français), Julien Bonnaire (Clermont), Thierry Dussautoir (Stade Toulousain), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz), Alexandre Lapandry (Clermont), Fulgence Ouedraogo (Montpellier), Louis Picamoles (Stade Toulousain)

Backs : Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (Stade Toulousain), Morgan Parra (Clermont), Benjamin Boyet (Bourgoin), François Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), Mathieu Bastareaud (Stade Français), Fabrice Estebanez (Brive), David Marty (Perpignan), Yannick Jauzion (Stade Toulousain), Vincent Clerc (Stade Toulousain), Benjamin Fall (Bayonne), Julien Malzieu (Clermont), Aurelien Rougerie (Clermont), Alexis Palisson (Brive), Clement Poitrenaud (Stade Toulousain).


28 Comments

  • 1.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 08:08 am

    They get away with anything,,,

  • 2.coke: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 08:16 am

    This was an insult to New Zealand – I don’t think this Bastar(eau)d can tour there again soon…

  • 3.uhuru: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 08:51 am

    what? no medard and heymans? rougerie and malzieu are absolutely useless. glad to see elissalde back though

  • 4.Staal: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 08:54 am

    Hehehehe – he is forgiven but is TIGER forgiven?

    NOW i must sell all my Nike stuff, my Red Nike shirts & go for Callaways …. man Tigers was stupid but why must it cost me money now? :lol: Nike should gimme my money back! :lol:

  • 5.Fern: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:25 am

    @Staal:
    Goeie more meneer,hoe gaan dit?

  • 6.Staal: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:31 am

    @Fern: Meneer? Jy’s te formeel …… hier oppie blog weet jy al te wel dis sommer jy en jou… :lol:

    nou wat sê jy v Tiger – hel ek het nie eens daarvan geweet todat ek terug gekom het innie land by my Pc nie… smaak my die man hettie geslapie.

    ek sou graag sy golf swing en geld wou gehad het maar nie sy moeilikheid nie :lol:

  • 7.fish out of water: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:34 am

    Of course he is forgiven, he is one of the form centres in the country at the moment.

    Against Biarritz he was dragging about 5 defenders on his way to the try line, he manages to break free when brought down in the tackle and go on to score a try.

  • 8.Fern: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:44 am

    @Staal:
    Toemaar ek het ook nie veel geslaap oor Dec nie.:-)
    Waar was jy gewees?Gaan jy enige projekte doen die jaar?

  • 9.Staal: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:47 am

    Het jy al van daai maer maak siekte gehoor – pasop!

    Eers in Egipte toe by huis in Moz.

    Projekte hierdie jaar – nee. Ons sit maar nog bietjie terug.

  • 10.Fern: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 09:48 am

    @Staal:
    Toemaar ek is versigtig.
    So jy sit n bietjie terug se jy?Baie ontwikkelaars doen.

  • 11.Brigadier Van Zyl: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 10:07 am

    A good player, obviously has other issues.
    Maybe the frogs will send him to one of those “Life Help” classes that Herschelle Gibbs was attending for a while?

  • 12.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 10:25 am

    great threadline.

    unless his folks are reading.

  • 13.gunther: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 11:10 am

    once a lying bastareaud always a lying bastareaud….

  • 14.Skim: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 12:05 pm

    Geesh Gareth, I don’t think it’s politically correct to call someone a Bastareaud, even if they did lie…

  • 15.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 12:39 pm

    I hope youve taken time out to forgive yourself too, Monsieur Lievremont. It was quite obvious at the time and has subsequently been shown that despite the fault originating with the player, that there was a Management and FRU coverup which was made possible by their hasty departure for Sydney in their remaining tour match vs Australia. The French are monumental hypocrites and were quite happy to give various assurances to Bas’**** behind closed doors (remember, he was only 20yrs old) whilst ensuring they kept their nose clean for PR purposes. Lets not forget they were happy to construct a diplomatic incident behind in NZ, with local NZRU administrators and even the Prime Minister immediately issuing formal apologies in public (remember, it could have been a disaster with the RWC looming and in the middle of the global credit crunch) and taxpayers money being wasted on a dedicated police team instructed to find the ‘culprits’. And all along, it was due to Bas’**** and 1 or 2 other players taking hookers back to the team hotel with injuries incurred when a fight broke out between them.

    Lievremont and your FRU cronies, vous etes un morceau de merde !

    I also remember quite vividly how Cane broke the REAL story here, days before it became general knowledge, and the pathetic pieces of bas’turds here who mocked him as some Kiwi XY & Z. Certainly no apology was forthcoming then, either. But, then again, what do you expect….

  • 16.Jinx: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 12:56 pm

    Inglorious Bastareaud…

  • 17.Yetirat: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 13:07 pm

    That headline is just too close to “Lying ******* forgiven”. Haha.

  • 18.Yetirat: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 13:30 pm

    @Black Panther:

    So what is the true story then? He fell when he was drunk or he got in a fight with team mates and hookers were involved?

  • 19.logie_Jumpbuck: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 13:57 pm

    George Best proclaimed in his biography that he could not keep up with the French rugby team after he bumped into them in a club and they were having a drinking session in Scotland after losing the match.

    I think that says it all about the French rugby team…..maybe Mathieu Bastareaud is a softy?

  • 20.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 13:59 pm

    I am glad the lying ******* has been forgiven.

  • 21.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 14:28 pm

    @Yetirat:

    Once the dedicated Police unit was hastily formed, they ran the usual checklist on local businesses, witnesses, hotel staff etc. Remember, theyre MO was to hunt down the attackers, described as ’2 large 20something Maori/Polys’. They then uncovered CCTV footage which showed Bas’**** coming back to the hotel, together with 1 or 2 other players, accompanied by 1 or 2 ‘ladies’.

    And so the story slowly started to unravel….he originally said he had been on his own when attacked. It became immed clear he had not been.

    Im actually not 100% on the following, but it goes something like:-

    Version 1 says Bas’**** was so drunk that he fell and hit his head on a coffee table in the room (this was the injury he originally said was caused after being assaulted by Kiwi revellers).

    Version 2 implies that the boys initiated a roasting with their new lady-friend/s whereby a fight broke out betw the players during which those injuries occurred.

    It was a coverup from 1st to last by FRU team Management who were happy to hang Bas’**** out to dry in public, protecting their own PR, whilst giving supposed assurances to the player behind closed doors. No wonder a newly-capped 20yr old couldnt take it, he was sectioned in a mental health institution after throwing himself of a bridge. And no wonder, either, that he was selected again at the first opportunity.

  • 22.U.R. Soles: Reply to this comment
    21 Jan 2010, 22:30 pm

    So the Basteaurd lied about getting into a fight over a couple of Auckland’s finest. Big deal.
    Lord alone knows any man unfortunate enough to wake up and discover he’d been rutting with some crumple-fleeced kiwi ho would undoubtedly resort to violence and then lie about the whole thing.

  • 23.whatever: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2010, 03:04 am

    He has shown remorse, doing his community service, time to move on……..everyone deserves a second chance!

  • 24.out wide: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2010, 08:34 am

    Good thing Mathieu has been given a second chance but this thread is making me piss myself with laughter – the banner was pretty sharp and now UR Soles has got me chuckling with his comment. LOL! Even your nic has got me chuckling. Great stuff!

  • 25.U.R. Soles: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2010, 15:38 pm

    @out wide: I’m not sure which was funnier: The article title or Black Panther’s 6 paragraph indignant outrage. God! Did anyone actually waste preciouse life moments reading it?

  • 26.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2010, 16:52 pm

    @U.R. Soles:

    You may nb have noted it was a response to Yetirat at #18, U R Sole. I suppose Keo could never be accused of attention to detail, so why not provide some – they say thats where you’ll find the Devil, afterall.

    As for ‘outrage’ – please, spare me your diagnosis, Dr. In fact I thought the French ‘turds tale of mirth was rather funny. A bit like you coming back here to bath in the reflective glory of Out Wides synopsis. I suppose, as Warhol might say, ‘every one has their 15 words of fame’.

    Perhaps if you want a better eg of indignant outrage, why dont you Google ‘armband’.

  • 27.U.R. Soles: Reply to this comment
    22 Jan 2010, 21:32 pm

    zzzzzzznghhh. . . . sorry your flatulent waffle caused me to flat-line for a moment there.

  • 28.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    23 Jan 2010, 15:05 pm

    @U.R. Soles:

    U.R.Sole, the only thing ‘flat’ is your replies.

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

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