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So this is what really happened to the French lads that night in Scotland...

While it may have been eclipsed by the controversies around both ‘Tunnelgate’ and the abuse of Eddie Jones by a group of Scottish yobs at a railway station in Manchester, there is still some mystery around what exactly happened to a number of French players in the wake of the loss to Scotland.

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On the 12th of February, a number of French were players were detained and questioned before being released without charge.

However, Jacques Brunel proceeded to drop them from the French squad, including in-form wing Teddy Thomas. Speculation was rife as to what exactly happened, varying to them bearing witness to a sexual assault to just being involved in a brawl.

However the Rugby Pod this week revealed what they understood to have happened on the night and, if anything, it places the French players in a better light.

According to pod’s anchor Andy Rowe, reading from a message said: “The French guys weren’t sexually assaulting anyone. Allegedly another guy was getting handsy and Teddy Thomas took umbrage with this. This started a massive fight in Tiger where a French player allegedly protecting a girl and allegedly seriously assaulted the guy.

“They weren’t dragged off the plane. They were stopped in the lounge prior to boarding and were just spoken to.”

You can watch the full podcast below, in which Finn Russell spoke to the panel following Scotland’s historic win over England.

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