Cian Tracey

And there's something wonderful and magic about him.

But if he's not a great trainer, and I think Gaultier has liked the French winger Adesagbe, who I'd imagine is the one who's going to come in for Peno.

But

The timing of this, Joe, is never a good time to drop your top scorer who has been in brilliant form for Bordeaux.

But it has ramifications for the out-half situation because Roman Entomac has been ruled out of the Ireland game due to injury.

And there's a big push in France now at the moment for Mathieu Jalibert to finally get his chance in the Six Nations.

He's obviously played before, but to be finally handed...

the keys to the kingdom as such but he's another player who has a frosty relationship with Galtier if you remember he left camp I think it was last year and looked like he might not play for France again under Galtier now Galtier could do a very French thing by playing Thomas Ramos who is a fullback he could put him at 10 but

the issue with Jalibert is that he's very much the alpha and obviously he's playing alongside rugby's one of rugby's biggest alphas in terms of Antoine Dupont who by the way it's going to be his first game back and I would say Andrew Porter is not going to be playing but I'd say the French crowd are going to give Tyke Byrne a bit of a hostile reception I'd imagine for the instance that was no fault of their own the injury that Dupont got last year

But if you're going to pick Jalibert at 10, surely it makes sense to have your two Bordeaux wingers in Louis-B.A.

Beret on the wing and Damien Peno on the other wing.

So it's very hard to make sense of that unless Galtier is going to put Thomas Ramos at 10, in which case he's not really worried about that Bordeaux connection.

if they want to do that yeah even though Adesagbe is a serious player I haven't seen much of him he's very good I think he's 21 or 22 let me guess he's fast he's fast yeah exactly I think Fiku Fiku has been France's defensive linchpin Sean Edwards go to man they have some word in French I can't think of it off the top of my head he's basically their defensive leader

He's the daddy of that group.

So there's going to be changes in the midfield.

I would imagine it's going to be Joram Moifana, who also plays for Bordeaux.

Again, that Bordeaux connection.

And Des Portaires, a young French centre who's coming through, who's been sensational.

Or they could play Toulouse.

I think he's 20.