French squad angered by Laporte tinkering

Pirate Irwin, Paris

Laporte made five changes to the side that scraped a fortunate 16-9 win over Scotland last week and selected his 24th different halfback partnership in 61 tests by recalling Dimitri Yachvili at scrum-half in place of Pierre Mignoni.

“We have to sustain the competition between the scrum-halves. Mignoni had a good second half against Scotland, but we’re not