France to play Wales at JWC
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44
In this weekend's matches in the Junior World Championship, only unbeaten teams meet, including France and Wales.
The winners of these four matches will go on to the semifinals while the losers drop out of championship contention.
France have been forced to make four changes. Firstly, they have lost their captain Morgan Parra to injury. He was expected to be one of the tsars of the tournament as earlier this year he made his debut for the French senior side. A scrumhalf he can also play flyhalf. Yoann Maestri takes over the captaincy,
Also out through injury is the Biarritz flank Wencelas Lauret. Yann Brethous of Mont-de-Marsan takes his place.
Then there are two suspensions after being cited - both for dangerous tackles, both for members of the Stade Français club - wing Djibril Camara, who has played several times for the Paris side ,and massive centre Mathieu Bastareaud who played once for them Camara is suspended for two weeks, Bastareaud for one.
Those four are not the only changes. Fullback Guillaume Namy moves to the wing in the place of Camara and Julien Dumora comes in to fullback.
There is a chnge at flyhalf where Mathieu Belie takes over from Alexandre Dumoulin.
In the pack only Louis Madaule survives in the starting XV though Clement Maynadier, Kevin Kervarec, Yoann Maestri and Raphaël Lakafia have come off the bench.
Generally the changes are a return to the team which played the first match.
France Under-20: 15 Julien Dumora, 14 Benjamin Fall, 13 Yann David, 12 Henry Chavancy, 11 Guillaume Namy, 10 Mathieu Belie, 9 Thierry Lacrampe, 8 Raphaël Lakafia, 7 Louis Madaule, 6 Jeremy Braille, 5 Adam Jaulhac, 4 Yoann Maestri (captain), 3 Kevin Kervarec, 2 Clement Maynadier, 1 Nicolas Agnesi
Replacement: 16 Marc Antoine Rallier, 17 Rabah Slimani , 18 Jean-Baptiste Roidot, 19 Arthur Chollon, 20 Yann
Brethous, 21 Tomas, 22 Alexandre Dumoulin
Referee: James Leckie (Australia)
Touch judges: Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland), David Wilkinson (Ireland)
Assessor: Steve Hilditch (Ireland)/Jim Bailey (Wales)
