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France statement: Replacements named for injured duo Jelonch, Meafou

Injury has sidelined Emmanuel Meafou (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

France have named their replacements for injured pair Anthony Jelonch and Emmanuel Meafou. Both forwards shipped knocks last Sunday when playing for Toulouse in their Investec Champions Cup home win over Bath.

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Jelonch suffered an ACL while the newly qualified Meafou damaged his knee in the 31-19 win. These injuries will see the pair miss out when Fabien Galthie’s French open their Guinness Six Nations campaign at home to Ireland in Marseille on February 2.

Jelonch, who will miss the entire tournament, has been replaced by Alexandre Roumat while Meafou’s spot at training in Marcoussis has been taken by Paul Willemse, the second row who missed the recent Rugby World Cup through injury.

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A social media post by the FFR read: “Unfortunately our back row Anthony Jelonch must forfeit the Six Nations tournament. Antho, we know you have been through this before and how difficult it is, but we will always be in your support. We wish you a good recovery.

“More bad news, Emmanuel Meafou is out. Alexandre Roumat and Paul Willemse are called up and join the group.”

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IkeaBoy 11 minutes ago
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IkeaBoy 25 minutes ago
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SA’s involvement in the URC has been a success by every possible measure not least because their fans have bought into it. There is a bit of an issue with unfilled stadiums right across the league but as you mention, bums on seats are also at home and driving the TV revenue.


It’s had a great knock-on affect on the league. Imagine a NH young lad getting his first run of games at senior level. By the end of the early round of fixtures he will have played against halve of the Bok team and multiple world cup winners. What an environment. What a way to learn.


It’s had such a positive influence of the league. Leinster walked 4 in a row before the re-brand and now have just made their maiden final in the 4th season of the comp.


Even outside the playoffs, there was only 8 PTS between 9th and 12th place with Benetton of all teams very unlucky to miss out on the playoffs.


There hasn’t been a blow-out yet in the grand final with the previous three all 5 PT games.


Brilliant stuff.

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SteveD 42 minutes ago
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Luister poephol, ek’s ‘n rooinek wat sy beste rugby gespiel het in die Oos Vrystaat se eerste liga so jy moenie dink ek weet fokal oor rugby in generaal of die Bokke specifiek. Sleg vir jou, ek weet ook baie van dom crunchies so’s daardie doos Luyt en hoe hy het Ian Mac uit sy plek as die Bok afrigter want hy het souties gehaat (eintlik, Mac was ‘n Rhodesiese outjie nie ‘n Englesman, so steek dat in jou pyp en rook dit).

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GrahamVF 57 minutes ago
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He was the second worst coach in Bok History with a win rate of less than a third. Only John Williams was worse on a list of 22. But of course he was English so that makes him special. Your Jingoism is sticking out like a shirt tail. And BTW if you are English speaking go back to your school and ask for your money back.

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
Broken hand or not, Richie Mo'unga is still New Zealand's best 10

In a strange way - perhaps because of the influence and strength of the professional league down under long before union opened up, the SH embraced professionalism with more alacrity than their northern cousins. Once the professional model was embraced in the north, numbers and resources came into play. Inadvertently because of the extremely weak Rand and also because of a premature quota policy a lot of SA’s top players ended up in the north and Rassie was able to leverage this to his advantage. When SA left the SH club comp the TV numbers plummeted. SA used to supply up 3m viewers annually. Those numbers (including me) are now bumping up the coffers of clubs like Leinster and Glasgow. And the SA players now slot seamlessly into the time zones so it’s not going to end any time soon in spite of all the carping from both the north who in some camps, are facing having to consolidate to be competitive (what Wales is going to do) and the south who are finally coming to terms that SA came out on top of that particular bunfight.

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SteveD 1 hour ago
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What????? One of the best coaches I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a few. Even if that dikdoos Louis Luyt didn’t think so but then he was a dikdutchman who didn’t know one end of a rugby ball from the other even if he did play for the OFS and was their captain.

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Graham VF 2 hours ago
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Lets give him that - but he was a kak coach.

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Graham VF 2 hours ago
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Most of whom came from the Free State or Transvaal with the id Province player like Kabous thrown in. This was in an era before the travelling mercenaries.

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James 2 hours ago
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Interestingly JD, Grant Fox said on a podcast recently Love was on his radar back when he was helping Fozzy with selections and thought he had BB level potential.

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IkeaBoy 3 hours ago
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