And you sir, are a W- and a waste of pixels. I do not see the need to waste my time on you any longer.

The ref for the Test will be the same Jared Maxwell who reffed the Toulouse game yesterday. Not one penalty for high tackles, and there were a few that could have been pulled, or offside. Like Jason Robinson when he came over for the World Club game, his signals weren't clear to the paying (or not, depending) punter.

No Ferriol - ankle sprain - and Elima a doubt (foot).

Oh joy.

Eric Anselme said the squad was getting together today, so we should have some team news tomorrow.

Vaccari in for Stacul, Touxagas in for Elima & William Barthau 18th man

Touxy for Elima, not the swap we would like - no offence like.

According to L'Indep

1. Villegas 2. Duport 3. Planas 4. Baile 5. Vaccari 6. Bosc 7. Murcia 13. Anselme 11. Gossard 12. Mounis 8. Casty 9. K. Bentley 10. Guisset (cap.) Subs: Gagliazzo, Griffi, Martins, Touxagas (or Barthau).

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William Barthau will make his test debut replacing Touxagas on the bench

What score do you expect?

Bookies do not value highly the French outfit with handicaps between 30 and 36 for France.





I do not expect a win but I was expecting a slightly more positive view on the French chances.

I think the French will be lucky not to ship in 40. I would be happy with a close first half and some heart from the lads.

Hum OK,
Well it won't be a very good marketing operation for RL in Paris if it turns out that way

Of those 3 I only see Murphy worthy of a spot in the national side, and what with him being injured and not playing beyond the reserves this year I just don't see it.
Wynne? Not good enough, work on developing a new kid.
Taylor, no-show in internationals, you said it, why waste time on him? Pick someone who will improve and can be the understudy to Greenshields.

It wont be anyway, taking the game to Paris IMO is a daft decision.

Agreeing with me, whatever next?

daft is an understatement

Not at all, Paris is the place to go to develop RL in France. Investing in the development of RL in Paris will be a long process, but international games are one of the best way to showcase RL in Paris. If ever Paris was able to produce a CC team the economic and mediatic impact on RL in France would be massive.

For the media it should be played in Paris. To get the crowds in you would want to play it when no other french teams were playing and not in a SL round. So crowds were never going to be good anyway...

On va se faire nicke, we've got some decent players, but we're no match for England.

It will be sad for France to be playing England without Ferriol, Elima, Pelo and Fakir. [iBien sur[/i, impossible for France to win.

Why no Julien Rinaldi?

I hope we have a good performance of passion, and a good crowd to see it.

Who knows? To be fair, Kane's been in the form of his life just lately, though Rinaldi's experience wouldn't go amiss, especially without some of the more experienced members of the squad.

He has been allowed to play for Bradford to try and earn a longer contract, apparently, after Anselme couldn't get back in the Leeds team last year having missed a game for the test.

Game over almost before it started with those two early scores.

The -32 handicap was a gift.
At least England are playing some good open rugby. France haven't turned up.