Christophe was injured in November. He is one of our best wings. We want to win the Six Nations because it's a true competition and we want to field the best players available. |
Defeating Ireland is no mean thing. The main thing was to win. It's our first match at home this season and we said we wanted to stay unbeaten at home until the 2007 World Cup which will be played in France. We are still on course. |
Florian badly bruised his left knee in a French championship match with his Toulouse club on Saturday. He had a scan today and doctors decided that he should be exempted from training until Wednesday. We'll see then if he has recovered. |
Frederic has been in pain for a month but he has played very good games with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup and the French championship and we are confident he will be at his best. |
He's given us all the guarantees of a good recovery. |
I would rate our performance as average plus, but this average plus performance leaves us with a positive balance sheet. |
If he plays and he's not at 100 per cent, the injury will worsen. We need to have guarantees and not take any risks. |
If we called him up it's because he is capable of playing. We did not want to rest him for the first match. We've always said that if we had to choose between a regular first-team member who is at 80% of his physical potential and his replacement who is at 100%, we would take the latter. |
It's true there hasn't been too much change, but there were four interesting matches in November. We have to continue in this line. |
Olivier was not catastrophic against the English but he was responsible for three of the penalties the referee awarded against us. When he gets too wound up it's a bad time so it's time for a look at the (others). |
Tests showed that there was no break. |
That was our main objective because the 2007 World Cup will be played in France and we want to keep our home advantage inviolate until the final. |
The case of Martin is less serious. He has a fever, but he is under treatment and was feeling better today and we hope he will resume training tomorrow. |
The first match of the tournament is always tricky. The players have not played together for a long time. |
The return of Fabien is pure logic. He's our captain and he proved with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup that he was fully fit. |