Lievremont happy for rookies to ‘suffer’

FRANCE head coach Marc Lievremont maintains the second-half implosion against Ireland should not cloud the overall impression of his side’s progress during the first two rounds of the RBS 6 Nations Championship.

“I think this will be good for the players,” said Lievremont, who was hired after the World Cup when Bernard Laporte stepped down. “It is good to win after suffering like that.”

Lievremont was proud of his players, even though their scrum was largely inferior to the Irish one in the second-half especially when prop Julien Brugnaut came on.