ENGLAND boss Brian Ashton has led the tributes to “remarkable” Jason Robinson, after handing him his 50th cap in a World Cup semi-final.

France have named an unchanged team for the World Cup semi-final against England in Paris on Saturday.

France are set to have a fully-fit squad available for their World Cup semi-final against England this weekend.

New Zealand 18 France 20

FRANCE coach Bernard Laporte named his side yesterday to face Ireland in tomorrow’s crunch Rugby World Cup clash in the Stade de France, and there were a number of surprises.

France will give more of their squad players a chance to impress ahead of the World Cup when they take on Wales in Cardiff on Sunday.

WHAT an incredible afternoon of rugby. On Saturday morning a margin of four points separated Ireland and France at the top of the championship table.

France 46 Scotland 19

Olivier Milloud is expecting a tough battle up front if he replaces injured team-mate Sylvain Marconnet for France’s RBS 6 Nations Championship showdown against England on Sunday.

France prop Sylvain Marconnet has been ruled out of the rest of the RBS 6 Nations Championship after suffering a serious injury while on a skiing holiday.

France coach Bernard Laporte has made several changes in the pack for the RBS 6 Nations Championship match against Wales at the Stade de France on Saturday.

‘ONE swallow never made a summer’ ought to be the viewpoint of the Irish front-row forwards as they measure up to what could be a decisive element of Saturday’s Six Nations clash with England at Croke Park.

France have made five changes to the 22-man squad that beat Ireland in the RBS 6 Nations Championship last Sunday for next weekend’s match against Wales.

FRANCE Coach Bernard Laporte has made five changes to the team to play Ireland in the Six Nations in Dublin on Sunday from the one that hammered Italy 39-3 on the tournament’s opening weekend.

IF IRELAND’S opening Six Nations clash with Wales had the feel of a potential banana skin, then Sunday’s historic duel with the French is even more fraught with danger.

France have made five changes to their team for Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship clash with Ireland at Croke Park.

Clement Poitrenaud, Sebastien Chabal and David Skrela return to the France squad for next Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship opener against Italy in Rome.

France have drafted flanker Serge Betsen and full-back Pepito Elhorga into their squad for next weekend’s second Test against New Zealand in Paris.

It will come as no shock to see Alan Quinlan settle into the Munster back row in place of the injured Anthony Foley before the visit of Bourgoin in the Heineken Cup at Thomond Park on Saturday.

YOU might imagine that Ireland’s Triple Crown heroes would prefer to put up their feet and call it a day for this season.

France have named Dimitri Yachvili and Sylvain Marconnet in their starting line-up for their crunch RBS Six Nations Championship clash with England at the Stade de France on Sunday.

Ireland and France emerged for their RBS Six Nations Championship clash in Paris hoping to salvage their battered reputations.

Ireland boss Eddie O’Sullivan has warned his players they must be prepared for an early French onslaught in tomorrow’s RBS Six Nations Championship clash.

Olivier Magne and Raphael Ibanez are aiming to provide the spark for France in tomorrow’s RBS Six Nations Championship clash with Ireland.

France coach Bernard Laporte hopes the recall of veterans Raphael Ibanez and Olivier Magne will provide a much-needed boost in morale ahead of Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship clash against Ireland in Paris.

France coach Bernard Laporte has made five changes to his team for Saturday’s RBS Six Nations Championship clash with Ireland in Paris and brought back veterans Raphael Ibanez and Olivier Magne.

FRANCE have recalled skipper Fabien Pelous for their Six Nations opener against Scotland at Murrayfield on February 5.

FRANCE coach Bernard Laporte has made a number of changes to his starting line-up to face Tonga in Toulouse on Saturday as Les Bleus look to make it three wins out of three.

FRANCE COACH Bernard Laporte has made several changes for the clash with Australia in Brisbane on Saturday with his side looking to bounce back from the dismal 27-13 defeat to South Africa last weekend.

France coach Bernard Laporte has made just two injury-enforced changes to his starting line-up to face Ireland in this weekend’s RBS 6 Nations showdown at Lansdowne Road.

A combination of injuries and a change in the thinking of coach Bernard Laporte has led to wholesale introductions to the French team to meet Scotland on Saturday in Paris.

Leinster could very well be in for a trying time against a much-strengthened Bourgoin at Stade Pierre Rajon on Friday night.

France’s Pascal Pape and South Africa’s Grant Estherhuizen are the two big names worthy of special attention in the Bourgoin l;ine-up to meet Leinster at Lansdowne Road tomorrow evening.

France team manager Jo Maso believes Argentina have earned the right to face a full-strength France as he and coach Bernard Laporte announced an unchanged side for Saturday’s Test in Marseille.

MUNSTER players central to the crucial penalty try decision on Saturday are convinced referee Tony Spreadbury got it just right.

NEW ZEALAND coach John Mitchell last night outlined his intentions to end the All Blacks’ Rugby World Cup campaign on a winning note by naming a full-strength side for the third place play-off.

Just to really ruin Serge Betsen’s week, the battle-scarred flanker who was in tears after France’s World Cup semi-final defeat to England will have to attend a disciplinary hearing.

RENOWNED Bondi Beach, a few miles outside of Sydney, was the spectacular setting yesterday for the utterly predictable French selection to face Ireland in the quarter-final of the World Cup in Melbourne on Sunday.

A hat-trick of tries against Fiji was not enough for exciting centre Yannick Jauzion to keep his place in the France side for Saturday’s game against Japan.

France coach Bernard Laporte insists he isn’t worried by the return of England’s star players for the second Test at Twickenham tomorrow.

ENGLAND coach Clive Woodward has insisted he would have no worries if he lost Jonny Wilkinson for the likely RBS Six Nations decider against Ireland in Dublin.

France coach Bernard Laporte has named his 22-man squad to take on Italy at Rome's Stadio Flaminio in the RBS Six Nations next Sunday, with versatile halfback Frédéric Michalak and Bourgoin prop Olivier Milloud both earning call-ups.