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France make one change to their team to face Wales

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France have made one change to their starting XV for Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations trip to Wales.

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Virimi Vakatawa missed the round two win over Italy due to injury but he is now fit and returns to a rejigged French midfield.

Arthur Vincent, who started against the Italians in place of Vakatawa, switches from 13 to 12, a decision that had resulted in Gael Fickou being shifted to the left wing to replace Vincent Rattez who will miss the remainder of the tournament through injury.

The rest of the XV is along familiar lines as new coach Fabien Galthie has kept faith with the players that recorded successive February wins over England and Italy.

There are changes, though, on the bench. Camille Chat is back in the mix, Jefferson Poirot has lost his place to uncapped Jean-Baptiste Gros, while uncapped Dylan Cretin and Thomas Ramos are also included.

FRANCE (vs Wales, Saturday)
15. Bouthier; 14. Thomas, 13. Vakatawa, 12. Vincent, 11. Fickou; 10. Ntamack, 9. Dupont; 8. Alldritt, 7. Ollivon (capt), 6. Cros; 5. Willemse, 4. Le Roux; 3. Haouas, 2. Marchand, 1. Baille. Reps: 16. Chat, 17. Gros, 18. Bamba, 19. Taofifenua, 20. Cretin, 21. Serin, 22. Jalibert, 23. Ramos.
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TJ Perenara clarifies reference to the Treaty in All Blacks' Haka

Nope you're both wrong. Absolutely 100% wrong. You two obviously know nothing about NZ history, or the Treaty which already gives non-Māori "equal" rights. You are ignorant to what the Crown have already done to Māori. I've read it multiple times, attended the magnificent hikoi and witnessed a beautiful moment of Māori and non-Māori coming together in a show of unity against xenophobia and a tiny minority party trying to change a constitutional binding agreement between the Crown and Māori. The Crown have hundreds of years of experience of whitewashing our culture, trying to remove the language and and take away land and water rights that were ours but got stolen from. Māori already do not have equal rights in all of the stats - health, education, crime, etc. The Treaty is a binding constitutional document that upholds Māori rights and little Seymour doesn't like that. Apparently he's not even a Māori anyway as his tribes can't find his family tree connection LOL!!!


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