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Bastareaud named in 32 man France squad

Toulon captain Mathieu Bastareaud

Mathieu Bastareaud has been included in the France Six Nations squad a matter of hours before getting a 3 week ban over an alleged homophobic slur.

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Bastareaud was banned for three weeks after appearing to call Benetton Treviso lock Sebastian Negri a “f*****g f*****t” during Toulon’s European Champions Cup win on Sunday.

The centre, recalled by Les Bleus to face New Zealand last November following a two-year absence, was included in a list of 32 named by Jacques Brunel on Wednesday.

Montpellier back Benjamin Fall also gets the nod, five years after earning the last of his six caps against England at Twickenham, and scrum-half Morgan Parra comes back into the fold.

Brunel has included six uncapped players, teenage fly-half Matthieu Jalibert, back-row Marco Tauleigne and full-back Geoffrey Palis getting the call from the recently appointed head coach.

Second row Felix Lambey has also been selected, along with props Dany Priso and Cedate Gomes Sa.

Yacouba Camara, Arthur Iturria, Remi Lamerat and Virimi Vakatawa come back into the squad after missing the November Tests.

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France start the tournament with a clash against Ireland at Stade de France on February 3.

France Six Nations squad: 

Forwards:  Eddy Ben Arous, Yacouba Camara, Camille Chat, Paul Gabrillagues, Cedate Gomes Sa, Kevin Gourdon, Guilhem Guirado, Arthur Iturria, Anthony Jelonch, Felix Lambey, Wenceslas Lauret, Sekou Macalou, Jefferson Poirot, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani, Marco Tauleigne, Christopher Tolofua, Sebastien Vahaamahina, 

Backs: Mathieu Bastareaud, Anthony Belleau, Henry Chavancy, Geoffrey Doumayrou, Brice Dulin, Antoine Dupont, Benjamin Fall, Matthieu Jalibert, Remi Lamerat, Maxime Machenaud, Geoffrey Palis, Morgan Parra, Teddy Thomas, Virimi Vakatawa.

 

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RedWarriors 1 hour ago
Leinster player ratings vs Sharks | 2024/25 URC

Yes. It looked like the players didn’t believe in the coaching. I hear that Sharks turnover a lot of coaches but there seems to be an issue judging by the players body language at least. The looked world beaters when scoring a point a minute against good teams early in the season though.


Attacking opportunities will be different under the Nienaber system. We saw some incisive attack and a couple of good tries against the Bulls and against Sharks.

Arguably we might get a better idea of Leinsters attack of these SA matches where the players by and large are immersed only on Leinster and not mixing time with the Irish setup.

Re the Irish setup, Farrell has to make a decision. The IRFU also. Nienaber contract ends in 2026. Should Ireland change play to something different like Leinster?

I would say yes, but if there needs to by alignment with Leinster then there must be certainty that Leinster is playing that way in 2026 onward.

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I don’t believe it would make Ireland world beaters. But clearly these young Leinster players are comfortable playing this way and it could make Ireland extremely difficult to beat in a World Cup which is a key attribute in winning knock out matches.


I think in the next few years we will see a SA 4 IRL 4 last 8.

They will tweak the schedule to give less disadvantage to SA. Even if that is worth 5 points per SA team, that puts almost all in play offs. More Springboks also in play perhaps.

The ‘other’ Irish provinces got hurt a little by Leinsters win dominance this year (having to play them twice). But IMO they are all building again, and although some more Leinster academy players will be released to the provinces and they will get a little centralized help the onus will be on them to find ways to close the gap with Leinster which they will start to do next year.

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