Baby faces Ireland as Valbon ruled out

FRANCE centre Ludovic Valbon was last night ruled out of the Six Nations match against Ireland after suffering a thigh injury in training.

Benoit Baby, 21, has been promoted from the replacements' bench and will win his first cap on Saturday. David Marty comes on to the bench.

Replacement hooker William Servat was also injured during a tough training session with the A team and will have a scan today.