We are trying to have two teams at the same level.
"Bernard Laporte" is a rugby union coach and former French Secretary of State for Sport. He is currently the head coach at RC Toulonnais/Toulon, having taken over in 2011 from Philippe Saint-André, who had been named the new head coach of the France national rugby union team/France national team. Laporte himself is a former head coach of France, serving in that role from 1999 to 2007. He was previously the coach at Stade Français. He was the first fully professional head coach of France.
More Bernard Laporte on Wikipedia.We should have killed them off in the first half but didn't and paid for it.
Fabien is a charismatic player. Thankfully we've already shown [during the tour of the southern hemisphere] that we can play without him.
The will still be a lot of competition until we name our World Cup squad and even until the World Cup starts. We'll need three players for every position.
It's a blow for France to lose its captain like this.
We played against a good team, we knew before the game that Ireland were one of the best teams in the world and we are very happy because we are young team, we are rebuilding.
Our target is to remain unbeaten at home right through to the end of the 2007 World Cup.
England will want to bounce back from that as they need to win to retain any chance of winning the tournament and that is not good news for us.
We have identified areas where we can improve.
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