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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2015 Six Nations] France
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<blockquote data-quote="Chistera" data-source="post: 702112" data-attributes="member: 72020"><p>Some continuity for once on the French coaches' part. No much to say about the forwards' selection, except for Ben Arous who's been selected ahead of his Racing teammate Szarzewski. As for the backs, the usual Talès nonsense: while it made some sort of sense to select Talès, depsite him being an average player, when Castres was the top 14's champion it makes no sense now as Castres are playing terrible rugby and fighting for relegation. Plisson, with his Stade Français side before top of the Top 14, deserved a spot (not to mention that he's 7 years younger). Same goes for Kockott, I would've picked Parra instead, can't afford to ignore that club partnership of Parra and Lopez.</p><p>As for the centres and the back three, difficult to makes choices as we have quite a lot of density in these positions, would've have included Bastareaud instead or either Dumoulin or Lamérat: these two are good promising players but they have similar profiles while Bastareaud brings something unique to our game and is a tremendous impact player.</p><p>Anyhow, happy to see that Toulouse's backline has been left pretty much intact, with Huget our only back to be selected, we'll need to those players to qualify for the Top 14 playoffs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chistera, post: 702112, member: 72020"] Some continuity for once on the French coaches' part. No much to say about the forwards' selection, except for Ben Arous who's been selected ahead of his Racing teammate Szarzewski. As for the backs, the usual Talès nonsense: while it made some sort of sense to select Talès, depsite him being an average player, when Castres was the top 14's champion it makes no sense now as Castres are playing terrible rugby and fighting for relegation. Plisson, with his Stade Français side before top of the Top 14, deserved a spot (not to mention that he's 7 years younger). Same goes for Kockott, I would've picked Parra instead, can't afford to ignore that club partnership of Parra and Lopez. As for the centres and the back three, difficult to makes choices as we have quite a lot of density in these positions, would've have included Bastareaud instead or either Dumoulin or Lamérat: these two are good promising players but they have similar profiles while Bastareaud brings something unique to our game and is a tremendous impact player. Anyhow, happy to see that Toulouse's backline has been left pretty much intact, with Huget our only back to be selected, we'll need to those players to qualify for the Top 14 playoffs. [/QUOTE]
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