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Huget to make first France appearance in a year

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Yoann Huget will win his first France cap in a year against Argentina this Saturday as one of two changes to Jacques Brunel’s team.

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The wing has 51 international caps but has not appeared for his country since a defeat to South Africa 12 months ago.

He will replace Damian Penaud after the left wing sustained an ankle injury in the first half of the loss to the Springboks last weekend.

In the other change to the French team, Gael Fickou will replace Geoffrey Doumayrou at inside centre.

France, who will be captained by Guilhem Guirado, have lost five games in a row and have not been defeated in six successive matches since a 10-game losing streak in 1968-69.

Argentina’s team features just one change, with scrum-half Gonzalo Bertranou replacing Tomas Cubelli.

Bertranou did not feature in the recent loss to Ireland but has otherwise been a regular for the Pumas this year.

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France: Maxime Medard, Teddy Thomas, Mathieu Bastareaud, Gael Fickou, Yoann Huget, Camille Lopez, Baptiste Serin; Jefferson Poirot, Guilhem Guirado, Cedate Gomes Sa, Sebastien Vahaamahina, Yoann Maestri, Wenceslas Lauret, Arthur Iturria, Louis Picamoles.

Replacements: Camille Chat, Dany Priso, Rabah Slimani, Paul Gabrillagues, Mathieu Babillot, Antoine Dupont, Anthony Belleau, Benjamin Fall.

Argentina: Emiliano Boffelli, Bautista Delguy, Matias Orlando, Jeronimo de la Fuente, Ramiro Moyano, Nicolas Sanchez, Gonzalo Bertranou; Santiago Garcia Botta, Agustin Creevy, Santiago Medrano, Matias Alemanno, Tomas Lavanini, Pablo Matera, Guido Petti, Javier Ortega Desio.

Replacements: Julian Montoya, Juan Pablo Zeiss, Lucio Sordoni, Mariano Galarza, Rodrigo Bruni, Tomas Lezana, Tomas Cubelli, Matias Moroni.

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Nations Championship: 'The data shows the north has finally caught up with the south'

Fact: the gap between the North and the South has narrowed considerably - that I get. However, determining that only selecting only Home grown players or playing in the home country is is the optimal strategy is a bit of a toss up and highly reliant on the economies of the home union. I do understand that England and to a lesser degree Ireland selects home based only. The top 14 is a massive threat to their domestic product. France would probably not be affected (the money is at home). Fiji, Argentina, Samoa, Italy and you could even argue Scotland have only benefitted from this. Their players either go overseas to learn at higher levels (Fiji, Samoa, Argentina) or players coming into their leagues to strengthen the home product and their National teams (Scotland, Italy, Japan).

South Africa used to limit its selection to the home based players, but the reality of a weak currency vs what players could earn oversees meant that you lost access to your best players at some stage of their careers, with very few exceptions. Kolbe left SA as he was considered too small for International Rugby (yes coaches/selectors view), but ironically in France he forced selectors to notice his endeavors and select him. He is only reaching 50 caps now despite being north of 30 - granted rotation and the odd injury also played a role, but for the most part it is having debuted or becoming a regular so late.



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