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One change for France as Galthie names his team to host Scotland

By Liam Heagney

24 Feb 2023

(Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Fabien Galthie has announced a France team to host Scotland on Sunday that contains just one starting XV alteration from the round two Guinness Six Nations loss to Ireland. That Dublin defeat was the first for the French since July 2021 and the defending championship champions have reacted by limiting change to only a single enforced swap.

Tighthead Uini Atonio was cited post-game at the Aviva Stadium for his first-half, head-high collision with Ireland’s Rob Herring and he was subsequently suspended for three games.

That ban can be reduced to two if he successfully completes tackle school – successful completion would free him for selection in the final France match of the Six Nations, the March 18 game at home to Wales. In the meantime, his No3 jersey has been taken against Scotland by Mohamed Haouas.

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The Montpellier front-rower, who is said to be joining Clermont next season, hasn’t been capped by France since two appearances in last year’s Six Nations.

All the rest of the match day 23 to face the Scots is the same as it was against Ireland, Galthie retaining his full faith in his France team despite their first loss in 19 months.

🇫🇷🆚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘/𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗘, c'est dimanche à 16h au @StadeFrance ! #FRAECO
🔥💪 On compte sur vous pour soutenir votre #XVdeFrance ! #NeFaisonsXV pic.twitter.com/mEJlmRygV8
— France Rugby (@FranceRugby) February 24, 2023

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RedWarrior 11 minutes ago

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Can't have a Kiwi comment without blaming someone else for their defeats. A 14 point try to France apparently the culprit last week!!

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PB 21 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Guess you aren’t a SA’can!

Maybe a disgruntled expat!

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RedWarrior 24 minutes ago

Jake White: Ireland, Australia and Wales all have the same problem

"They start with Ireland away, and then they go over to Paris to play France."

England are playing France in Twickenham in the 2025 6N.

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RedWarrior 31 minutes ago

Andy Farrell faces up to concerning Irish 'trends' ahead of Fiji

There is nothing particularly significant about Ireland in this regard compared to other Tier 1 nations. To look at 'strategy' for illegal play its best to see what teams push boundaries with new laws. SA have milked two tries at ruck block downs. The strategy is to charge the first few before the ball is out at about 4 seconds but pull out and put up hands in reigned apology. The referees usually allow the scum half to clear without awarding a penalty in this scenario. The problem with that being that the scrumhalf is now taking over 5 seconds through no fault of his own. Having achieved a few slow balls > 5s , the SA forward can now pick a scrum to charge dead on 5s. Now if the scrum half waits, he will concede a penalty, as we saw against Scotland. With the new rule in place, any early charge should result in an immediate penalty.

SA also got an offside block against England which was pivotal again after a couple of 'apologetic' offside aborted charges forcing England to clear slowly.

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RedWarrior 48 minutes ago

Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

Yep, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?

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Mark 58 minutes ago

Fin Baxter wades into debate over the England losing streak

Totally agree, and with the Greenwood comment you have hit the nail on the head, England have never managed to replace Greenwood.

And although it's a simple analogy if you look at today's England side, how many of them would make a combined world xv?.

As you allude to, they are I'm afraid mediocre.

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Lisa Decker 1 hour ago

Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

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Werner 1 hour ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

I dare say it's an "everyone against the ABs" scrapbook. Only time I've seen him give half a compliment is when he talks about other teams beating the Springboks. Even in this article he puts the Argentina win in NZ down to the ABs being bad rather than the Argentines playing well, which they have been doing all year round.

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AA 1 hour ago

Fin Baxter wades into debate over the England losing streak

Agreed. Borthwick will have to write a new excuse book soon .

I have looked at the two world cup final teams from 2003 and 2020.

2003 team scored 187 tries between them in 389 caps

2020 team scored 113 tries between them in 473 caps. As you can see a huge disparity in scoring rate. Only Johnny May with 36 tries in 78 caps scored a higher amount of tries. Elliot Daly comes close but the rest are frankly very poor.

Farrell and Ford scored a pathetic 20 tries between them in a combined 210 caps.

There again , the 2003 team did have Wilko and Greenwood etc whereas 2020 team had Ford and Farrell .

So much people saying that Fords strength is of bringing others into the game .

Really. The figures totally disprove that notion .

It has been mentioned elsewhere that we have accepted mediocrity far too often and the figures would indicate that players are or have been picked far too often without performing .

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Alex 1 hour ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Not disputing that NZ are ahead of Eng. Also not saying Eng are unlucky (though clearly the tone of the article is not that the ABs were unlucky but that they 'should have' won). Your team are looking great and are on the up. I just felt that Pundits have argued Eng 'should have' won the first test against the ABs, when it's more nuanced than that, and very fine margins determine results that Eng didn't get right. Same applies, therefore, to NZ and other nations. Ben Smith though doesn't seem to see it that way. To be clear: I'm not saying I agree with the 'should haves', but more that I take issue with the phrasing.

Good to see your respect for other nations is so strong! Proper rugby fan you are!!!

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RedWarrior 1 hour ago

Did Rassie Erasmus miss a trick with his latest South Africa squad?

GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.

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RedWarrior 1 hour ago

'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'