Openside wing-forward Olivier Magne has been dropped from the French side for Sunday’s RBS Six Nations match at the Millennium Stadium, replaced by Thomas Lievremont.
Openside wing-forward Olivier Magne has been dropped from the French side for Sunday’s RBS Six Nations match at the Millennium Stadium, replaced by Thomas Lievremont.
Frederic Michalak returns to the number ten position in place of Julien
Peyrelongue who deputised in the 25-0 win over Italy last month.
Lievremont, (Biarritz) has been capped 23 times, and his inclusion in the starting XV means that Imanol Harinordoquy moves to openside
flanker while the 74 times capped Magne, 30, drops to the replacements’ bench.
France: Nicolas Brusque (Biarritz); Vincent Clerc (Stade Toulousain),
Damien
Traille (Pau), Yannick Jauzion (Stade Toulousain), Christophe
Dominici (Stade
Francais); Frederic Michalak (Stade Toulousain), Jean-Baptiste
Elissalde
(Stade Toulousain); Thomas Lievremont (Biarritz), Imanol Harinordoquy
(Pau),
Serge Betsen (Biarritz); Pascal Pape (Bourgoin), Fabien Pelous (Stade
Toulousain, capt; Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), William
Servat (Stade
Toulousain), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais).
Replacements: Yannick Bru (Stade Toulousain), Jean-Jacques Crenca
(Agen),
David Auradou (Stade Francais), Olivier Magne (Montferrand), Dimitri
Yachvili
(Biarritz), Brian Liebenberg (Stade Francais), Cedric Heymans (Stade
Toulousain).
England:Iain Balshaw (Bath); Josh Lewsey (Wasps), Jason Robinson (Sale),
Will
Greenwood (Harlequins); Ben Cohen (Northampton); Paul Grayson
(Northampton)
Matt Dawson (Northampton); Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps, capt, Richard
Hill
(Saracens), Joe Worsley (Wasps); Ben Kay (Leicester), Steve Borthwick
(Bath);
Phil Vickery (Gloucester), Steve Thompson (Northampton), Trevor
Woodman
(Gloucester).
Replacements: Mark Regan (Leeds), Matt Stevens (Bath), Chris Jones
(Sale),
Neil Back (Leicester), Andy Gomarsall (Gloucester), Olly Barkley
(Bath), James
Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester).
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