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Posted 70 days ago
By Gavin Mortimer
PARIS is known as the City of Love but frankly who cares about all that soppy stuff when it comes to Le Crunch? Whispering sweet nothings on the Champs-Élysées or wetting your whistle in the Frog & Rosbif…? It’s a no brainer for every red-blooded rugby fan, so here is the Rugby World guide to where to go…
Posted 71 days ago
FRANCE COACH Philippe Saint-Andre has dropped half-backs Morgan Parra and Francois Trinh-Duc to the bench for their RBS 6 Nations game against England on Sunday.
Toulouse fly-half Lionel Beauxis comes in for Trinh-Duc while former Leicester scrum-half Julien Dupuy, who now plays for Stade Francais, will don the No 9 jersey at Stade de France.
Neither Beauxis nor Dupuy have started a…
Posted 72 days ago
THE Sunday Times ran a piece last weekend in which Rugby World’s very own Stephen Jones interviewed Philippe Saint-André. The coach of France was his normal affable self, buttering up the English ahead of Sunday’s encounter byacknowledging his “debt to England rugby” on account of the formative years he spent coaching at Gloucester and Sale.
Posted 73 days ago
France clawed their way back from an 11-point deficit to draw with Ireland in the rearranged RBS 6 Nations fixture at the Stade de France. The men in green started well, and Tommy Bowe scored two tries in the first half, silencing the French crowd. But Wesley Fofana scored his third Championship try in the 51st minute, and the swing in momentum saw France even the scores thanks to Morgan Parra’s boot. Ireland couldn’t convert a surge of pressure into points in the final quarter of the match, as France’s defence proved to be water tight.
Posted 76 days ago
SO, here we go again. Three weeks and a day after the teams were left kicking their heels in Siberian Paris, France and Ireland meet to decide who will chase Wales hardest to the RBS 6 Nations finishing line. Since that shambolic postponement,
Posted 80 days ago
By Al Dymock
AT post-match press conferences, stats sheets are handed out by busy looking officials. You get the certified breakdown of what happened during the game and you can pick over where and why things didn’t go to plan.
After Scotland lost 17-23 against France, I crumpled the sheet up and threw it away.
The thing is that if you were to…
Posted 81 days ago
Scotland took advantage of a slow start from a French team that hadn’t played for three weeks and built a 10-0 lead in the first 25 minutes with a try from teenage full-back Stuart Hogg and a conversion and penalty from Greig Laidlaw. But it all went wrong in the next 15 minutes as a Wesley Fofana try and a conversion and penalty from Morgan Parra made in 10-10 at half-time – by which time Scotland had lost Mike Blair and Rory Lamont to injury.
Posted 83 days ago
by Katie Field, Rugby World writer
When Scotland last ran out at Murrayfield, three weeks ago, they were the favourites to beat a rebuilt England side. But the unthinkable happened and Scotland lost 13-6, then suffered a 27-13 defeat in Wales a week later. So, as they prepare for their second Murrayfield outing of the RBS 6 Nations, against France this…
Posted 92 days ago
An agreement has been reached between the IRFU and the FFR over the refunding of the face value of match tickets for the RBS 6 Nations clash between France and Ireland, which should have taken place on Saturday 11 February. The match will now take place on Sunday 4 March at 4pm local time.
The process for seeking a refund is…
Posted 92 days ago
The RBS 6 Six Nations council has announced that the postponed France v Ireland match will now take place on Sunday 4 March at 4pm local time (3pm GMT), at the Stade de France. It was also confirmed that ticket holders who are unable to attend the match will be entitled to a full refund for their tickets, details of…
