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France replace Parra and Dulin with Serin and Bonneval
By Peter Thompson
Baptiste Serin and Hugo Bonneval have been called up to the France squad for the Six Nations opener against Ireland to replace the injured Morgan Parra and Brice Dulin.
Parra has not played for his country since October 2015 and the scrum-half's international comeback will have to wait after he suffered a knee injury in Clermont Auvergne's European Champions Cup win over the Ospreys on Saturday.
Head coach Jacques Brunel has drafted in playmaker Serin in the absence of the experienced Parra.
Full-back Dulin damaged his calf in Racing 92's victory over Leicester Tigers, so Toulon's Hugo Bonneval joins up with the squad.
Les Bleus start the tournament against Joe Schmidt's men at Stade de France on February 3.
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Willis is decent in the lineout to be fair, but definitely lacking a heavyweight ball carrier.
I think between Underhill, Curry, and Willis there isn't a huge amount between them. Maybe Willis would be good enough to start, but he wouldn't massively improve the team.
Go to commentsI'm not sure he is getting there and I don't think he will. Progress has been glacial honestly. Our attacking structure hasn't improved at all, except that he's now picking Marcus Smith who is a one man attack at the moment... And our defence for obvious reasons is now awful. I would have faith in Borthwick if I had faith in his assistant coaches... But I don't think Wigglesworth is an attack coach and why would he be? He's never been an attack coach and he spent his entire career box kicking. Our defence coach has never been employed as a defence coach and is still the head coach of a second division French side with an awful defensive record. The fact that Borthwick appointed them both is a poor reflection. If we still had Felix Jones and we had Mike Catt/Nick Evans or someone in the attack coach role, I'd be content to be patient and that results will come. With Wigglesworth and Joe El Abd, I have no faith that we will improve and I've seen no signs that we are.
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