Jauzion stays on bench as Laporte makes four changes

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.

Laporte has named the same backs who starred against Namibia, which means David Marty holds his place at centre with Yannick Jauzion on the bench.

There are four changes in total from the Namibia game: in the pack, Jerome Thion comes in for Lionel Nallet and Serge Betsen replaces Yannick Nyanga, while captain Raphael Ibanez replaces Dimitri Szarzewski at hooker. Olivier Milloud at prop (for Jean-Baptiste Poux) is the other change.