FRENCH COLUMN
JAMES HARRINGTON

France’s men’s rugby side, it is safe to say, is fairly well blessed with centres. Nicolas Depoortere, Kalvin Gourges, Yoram Moefana, Fabien Brau-Boirie, and Emilien Gailleton make an impressively solid, and highly likely if they’re fit, quintet for the squad likely to be travelling to Australia next year for the World Cup.
Then there’s the veteran Gael Fickou, and Tani Vili, who has been in rare form for Stade Francais so far this season, and has earned a deserved recall to the training squad for next month’s Nation...