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Beauxis returns for France after six-year absence

09 Feb 2018

Lionel Beauxis /PA

Lionel Beauxis has earned a France recall for Sunday’s Six Nations clash against Scotland, six years after his previous appearance.

The 32-year-old, who last wore an international jersey against Wales in March 2012, has been given the nod after teenage fly-half Matthieu Jalibert sustained knee ligament damage in last week’s last-gasp loss to Ireland.

Beauxis is one of three changes made by head coach Jacques Brunel, with Geoffrey Doumayrou replacing Henry Chavancy at inside centre and Marco Tauleigne starting at number eight, with Kevin Gourdon out due to an ankle injury.

Louis Picamoles takes Tauleigne’s spot among the replacements, with Baptiste Serin the back-up scrum-half in the absence of the injured Antoine Dupont, while Eddy Ben Arous is also added to the bench.

🔴 Dimanche, direction 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Édimbourg ! Découvrez la composition de l'équipe choisie par Jacques Brunel et son staff pour affronter l'Écosse dimanche à 16h pour la 2e journée du tournoi des @SixNationsRugby ! #soutiensleXV #PrêtsAuCombat #ECOFRA pic.twitter.com/5vwGhJ8cDW
— France Rugby (@FranceRugby) February 9, 2018

France XV: Geoffrey Palis, Teddy Thomas, Remi Lamerat, Geoffrey Doumayrou, Virimi Vakatawa, Lionel Beauxis, Maxime Machenaud; Jefferson Poirot, Guilhem Guirado (captain), Rabah Slimani, Sebastien Vahaamahina, Arthur Iturria, Wenceslas Lauret, Yacouba Camara, Marco Tauleigne.

Replacements: Adrien Pelissie, Eddy Ben Arous, Cedate Gomes Sa, Paul Gabrillagues, Louis Picamoles, Baptiste Serin, Anthony Belleau, Benjamin Fall.

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DM 24 minutes ago

‘Rising force’ Proctor gives All Blacks Ioane dilemma

Proctor is superior to Ioane in every facet of the game, including defence. Rieko had one of the lowest tackle percentages in international rugby last year (for centres) at just 73.44%, which is 31st out of 33 centres that played a min of 240 minutes.

In Super Rugby this year his tackle percentage is better at 81.01%, putting him 14th out of 16 kiwi centres (min 180 minutes). Proctor is on 100%, albeit with a smaller sample size.

Proctor is also a better distributor and kicker (Ioane hasn’t kicked once this year). Rieko has passed the ball 3.9 times per game compared to Proctor’s 11.6. Billy dominates in almost all attacking stats this year.

Rieko’s gotta go.

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Brendan Fanning: 'Leinster have the best-resourced squad in these islands but can’t make it pay.'

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It wasnt a penalty try. VdF had placed the ball so couldnt place it again. So the play would have to have gone through a ruck and from that point you cannot assume a try would be scored!

Byrne played the ball off his feet when he touched down.

No try but penalty and yellow as it was so close to the line. If the ref had called it different would have been wrong.

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‘Rising force’ Proctor gives All Blacks Ioane dilemma

This is a recurring problem. Players deciding in which position they wish to play in. Three current ABs BB,Dmac and Ioane have told the selectors this and its a problem here too.

The next step is they start saying how they want to play.

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Who cares? They coudl have rested four or five essentials and still won.

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NB 4 hours ago

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‘The Quiet’ can actually work quite well, esp when they are bracing themselves for a barrage of abuse!

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NB 4 hours ago

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Maybe though I think they are capable of outscoring UBB in a shootout, as UBB don’t Saints experience vs the blitz D.

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