Christophe was injured in November. He is one of our best wings. We want to win the Six Nations because it's a true competition and we want to field the best players available.
The return of Fabien is pure logic. He's our captain and he proved with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup that he was fully fit.
We will count on the team from November but competition still exists within the group and that's for the best.
If we called him up it's because he is capable of playing. We did not want to rest him for the first match. We've always said that if we had to choose between a regular first-team member who is at 80% of his physical potential and his replacement who is at 100%, we would take the latter.
The first match of the tournament is always tricky. The players have not played together for a long time.
The case of Martin is less serious. He has a fever, but he is under treatment and was feeling better today and we hope he will resume training tomorrow.
It's true there hasn't been too much change, but there were four interesting matches in November. We have to continue in this line.
We prefer to keep managing it (the strain). Frederic wanted to train from Wednesday morning but we prefer to hold him back.
Frederic has been in pain for a month but he has played very good games with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup and the French championship and we are confident he will be at his best.
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