BERNARD LE ROUX
Mar 09, 2021
3 minutes
Words Gavin Mortimer
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FRANCE ARE back. It’s been a dismal decade for les Bleus, but a new coaching staff and a new generation have transformed their fortunes.
Scrum-half Antoine Dupont is the face of the new France, aided and abetted by captain Charles Ollivon and fly-half Matthieu Jalibert. The power of the scrum, however, is supplied by the muscle of two men who rarely hit the headlines, Bernard Le Roux and Paul Willemse. A couple of strapping South African second-rows in a side
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