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Parra and Lamerat among Clermont walking wounded
By Peter Thompson
Morgan Parra and Remi Lamerat are among a quartet of Clermont Auvergne players who are injury concerns following their European Champions Cup semi-final win over Leinster on Sunday.
Scrum-half Parra suffered a thigh problem during the Top 14 side's 27-22 success at Matmut Stadium de Gerland.
Parra, capped 66 times by France, will miss the trip to Lyon this weekend and Clermont are waiting to discover how long he will be out for, with a Champions Cup showdown with defending champions Saracens to come two weeks on Saturday.
Les Bleus centre Lamerat will also play no part in the Top 14 encounter at Lyon after taking a blow to the knee and it remains to be seen how long he will be sidelined.
Fellow centre Aurelien Rougerie is another player who will not feature this weekend due to a foot injury sustained in a triumph over the Pro12 side, which came at a cost.
The same goes for Georgian prop Davit Zirakashvili, who is nursing an ankle complaint, but his compatriot Viktor Kolelishvili is available after coming through the concussion protocol.
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Steve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
Go to commentsBut still Australians. Only Australia can help itself seems to be the key message.
Blaming Kiwis is deflecting from the actual problem.
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