Castres head coach, former Ireland and Lions lock Jeremy Davidson, has turned to Chris Whitaker to fill his vacant attack coach job at the Stade Pierre-Fabre next season.
RugbyPass has sifted through the size of every starting lock in all the fixtures from the first week of January, calculated the averages and spotting the various trends.
The strangest thing is that the decade actually started with a lot of promise for France under Marc Lièvremont, with a Grand Slam in 2010.
No one saw Bryn Evans' 2009 All Blacks call-up for that year's French test series coming. Not least the man himself.