JAMES HARRINGTON

FRENCH COLUMN
Weeks of posturing, fingerpointing and metaphorical chest-beating ended with something approaching a temporary detente earlier this week, as the French Rugby Union and the country’s 30 professional clubs finally reached an agreement on player release for the end-ofyear internationals.
Days after the country’s highest administrative court effectively banged the two sides’ heads together and ordered them to sort out their differences, the FFR and LNR sat around a virtual conference table for one-and-a-half days and hammered ou...