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I'm tipping Toulon will be back in the Super 14 by the end of next season!!!
Umaga to move into management
From correspondents in Paris
May 29, 2007
FRENCH second division side Toulon is set to name former New Zealand skipper Tana Umaga as its general manager on a two-year contract, L'Equipe sports daily reported.
The recently-retired centre played seven games for the Mediterranean port side last season pocketing $A575,000 and helping the team win all seven.
Now ambitious club owner Mourad Boudjellal wants him back as general manager to mastermind the club's drive to get back into the French Super-14 top flight and an announcement is expected on Thursday, the paper said.
Toulon has already announced that for next season it has signed up All Blacks prop Anton Oliver and former fly half Andrew Mehrtens as well as Australia scrum half and skipper George Gregan.
L'Equipe said that the 34-year-old Umaga was the inspiration behind these signings ahead of his arrival and that he was next targeting South African lock Victor Matfield.
Toulon narrowly failed to clinch promotion to the top division this year and Australian coach Tim Lane is believed to be on his way out to take over either as Italy national team coach after the World Cup or with the struggling Queensland Reds in the southern hemisphere Super-14.
Agence France-Presse