JEREMY GUSCOTT
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK

WHERE France make hay and run through a team is if you allow them to offload. That was England’s biggest mistake at Twickenham last weekend, and it cost them a record defeat.
The French have big, athletic forwards who understand to run at ‘spaces not faces’, and they take brilliant support lines. It is very difficult to stop because, when they have momentum, they produce quick ball and tear you apart.
They also have a very good set-piece, whether from scrum or lineout, and they use it to create quick ball in the loose. Antoine Dupont e...