France, champions of Europe, against South Africa, double World Cup winners and newly crowned Rugby Championship title holders, in Paris on Saturday, is one of the most mouthwatering contests in this Autumn Series.

What gives it extra spice is that the last time these two sides met in the 2023 World Cup quarter-final, when South Africa edged it 29-28 to wreck French hopes of winning the World Cup for the first time as the host nation, it left a sour taste.
Two years later, what we also know is that with the last matches in the Rugby Championship played in early October, southern hemisphere ...