Scans confirm Jordie Barrett will be sidelined with knee injury

Congratulations for France's "business success." The biggest and richest country is losing money despite their huge market, has won one of the past 14 Six Nations and has bombed out of the past three world cups before the semis.

When a rugby system lacks alignment it is very difficult to win the big trophies. Imagine how good they'd be with their huge player numbers if they were able to properly manage player workloads.

Interesting that Hansen, Foster and Razor have consistently made Cane first choice even post the neck injury. Your stats don't tell the whole story.

Now I understand it's a shame for NZ fans for who it is almost the only opportunity to see the best NH players against their home team. And pretty sure if french players had a say, they would pick a NZ tour any day over a few club matchs against Top14 teams. Hopefully the calendar could be adapted somehow, my personal choice would be to reduce european cups pool stages, which are currently near to useless.

Although I don’t think there are enough South Africans.