France rotate for Tonga

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 beat Australia 26-16 in Marseilles and Canada 50-6 in Nantes last weekend.

Laporte has opted to rotate his squad and Raphael Ibanez, Julien Laharrague, Vincent Clerc, Yann Delaigue, Olivier Milloud, Gregory Lamboley, Yannick Nyanga and Sebastien Chabal all start.

France team: Julien Laharrague (Perpignan); Aurelien Rougerie (Clermont-Ferrand), David Marty (Perpignan), Thomas Castaignede (Saracens), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse); Yann Delaigue (Castres), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz); Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), Raphael Ibanez (Wasps), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais), Gregory Lamboley (Toulouse), Jerome Thion (Biarritz, captain), Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin), Yannick Nyanga (Toulouse), Sebastien Chabal (Sale).

Replacements: Sebastien Bruno (Sale), Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), Lionel Nallet (Castres), Remy Martin (Stade Francais), Thomas Lievremont (Biarritz), Frederic Michalak (Toulouse), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse).