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France shake up bench for Six Nations decider
By Ian Cameron
France have named their side to take on Wales in the Guinness Six Nations decider in Paris on Saturday night.
Head coach Fabien Galthie has made no changes to the starting side that took on England in Twickenham last weekend but has made a raft of changes on the bench.
Giant tighthead Uini Atonio is back after recovering from covid-19, as well as lock Swan Rebbadj and centre Arthur Vincent.
Dorian Aldegheri, Cyril Cazeaux, Cameron Woki are all dropped from the team.
FRANCE TEAM VS WALES:
Brice Dulin
Teddy Thomas
Virimi Vakatawa
Gael Fickou
Damian Penaud
Matthieu Jalibert
Antoine Dupont
Cyril Baille
Julien Marchand
Mohamed Haouas
Romain Taofifenua
Paul Willemse
Dylan Cretin
Charles Ollivon
Gregory Alldritt.
Replacements: Camille Chat, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Uini Atonio, Swan Rebbadj, Anthony Jelonch, Baptiste Serin, Romain Ntamack, Arthur Vincent
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Excellent analysis Nick as we have come to expect. I was not really aware that NFL strategies have been adopted by rugby teams, especially in defence. One point I would make is that the Northhampton attacking player on the end of the chain in the video examples has not maintained the correct depth to be effective. In the footage shown the outside player is too flat to make the best of the opportunity his inside players have provided. In each case they have to reduce speed and turn their body backwards to secure the ball, losing all momentum and giving the impressive scrambling defence the chance to shut down the threat.
Go to commentsMorning, John. Do you think that it may be a good idea to rest both teams from the Madrid comp leading in to the Olympics
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