James Tedesco : « Toulouse was a good test for us »
After his training session at the INSEP with the Toulouse Olympique, we had a chat with James Tedesco, the Sydney Roosters international fullback.
First of all, do you enjoy your stay here in Paris preparing Wigan ?
It’s been very good, we’ve done a bit of sight seeing, today it was really good to come up against Toulouse, that was a good little practice so the preparation is going well et we are all enjoying here in Paris.
Better climate here than in the North of England ?
Yeah, it’s better, the sun today is kind to us but it’s really been cold the last few days. We are adapting and getting ready for the cold weather in Manchester.
About the training versus Toulouse, the interest is obvious for Toulouse, but for you ?
They were very good, i know a few people in the Toulouse field sheds and in the Toulouse team, that was very good to come up against them. They are a pretty good footy side so that was a good test for us. We obviously work on our attack, and i think it was a really good practice session for us today.
And then, the game, the WCC and after that the season…
That will be the first game togethter as a new side in 2019, so big good test coming up against Wigan on sunday, we all are looking for into it. After that we will get stucked into the 2019 season, so very excited.
You hope for a new title, always ?
Yeah obviously, i think if we can get a win this week it will be a good start for us. Obviously we had a very succesdful year last year winning, so hopefully we can do it again this year.
A word about Trent Robinson, you know he is somewhat from Toulouse ?
It’s very different seeing him speaking french. Obviously his familly is french and he loves Paris and that’s why he brought us here so it’s been very good for our preparation. We are really enjoying over here.
Julien Castagnet