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RBS 6 Nations Preview: France

Look at him! How could anyone not select him?

"Ding Dong the witch is dead! The insane witch is dead!"  So sang the munchkins of France when Marc Lievremont shuffled out of the door, probably muttering something about no-one understanding the nature of his special genius.  

In his stead the FFR have gone for the Anti-Lievremont - the sensible Phillipe Saint-Andre.  However, for all his challenging team selections, Mad Marc managed to climb out of his bag of monkeys long enough to win a Grand Slam and reach a World Cup Final , which despite a team on the verge of Bountyesque mutiny, and a biased ref,  lost it by only a single point.

The sensible thinking is that if Lievremont could achieve that, then imagine what someone as normal as Saint-Andre could do?  But, his first team selection has left out our rugby-crush Morgan Parra, therefore this blog is arbritrarily declaring him to be clueless.

Despite this gratuitous Parra snub, France should still win this.  Their forwards look powerful and canny, and also feature the incredible Dusautoir and Bonnaire; uncapped Wesley Fofana in the centre is exciting and surrounded by an ocean of experience that should cushion his class into this level.  And, perhaps most significantly, inexplicable hairball Yoann Huget has been flirted out.

Prediction: 1st

Best Named Player: Imanol Harinordoquy - did you really expect anyone else?

We All Want To See: Wesley Fofana.  And Morgan Parra, obviously.

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RBS 6 Nations Preview: France

Look at him! How could anyone not select him?

"Ding Dong the witch is dead! The insane witch is dead!"  So sang the munchkins of France when Marc Lievremont shuffled out of the door, probably muttering something about no-one understanding the nature of his special genius.  

In his stead the FFR have gone for the Anti-Lievremont - the sensible Phillipe Saint-Andre.  However, for all his challenging team selections, Mad Marc managed to climb out of his bag of monkeys long enough to win a Grand Slam and reach a World Cup Final , which despite a team on the verge of Bountyesque mutiny, and a biased ref,  lost it by only a single point.