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France make one change and also alter forwards/backs bench split
By Liam Heagney
France coach Fabien Galthie has named a starting XV to face Wales on Friday in Cardiff that shows just one change from their Guinness Six Nations round three win away to Scotland. However, he has reconfigured the make-up of his Principality Stadium bench by going with a five/three forwards/backs split compared to a six/two split at Murrayfield.
The French are on course for a first Grand Slam since 2010 following their February wins over Italy, Ireland and Scotland and having had to do without the injured Gabin Villiere for their victory in Edinburgh after he had scored three tries in the opening two rounds, they have now recalled the fit-again winger to their team.
This inclusion of Villiere on the left-wing has caused a reshuffle. Yoram Moefana, who wore the No11 jersey the last day, has now switched to the right-wing where he takes over from Damian Penaud, who has picked up covid. The remainder of the XV is unchanged despite an injury scare surrounding Antoine Dupont at training on Tuesday.
On the France Six Nations bench, there is a return for Mohamed Haouas, the controversial tighthead who last month was handed a suspended sentence for his role in a spate of burglaries in 2014.
He takes over from Demba Bamba, while the exclusion of sub forward Romain Taofifenua - another player who has covid - has enabled Galthie to choose an extra back in Matthis Lebel.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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