The French staff announced the group of 42 players who will prepare for the test match against Japan. The Toulouse resident Julien Marchand is one of them. Just like the young center of Clermont.
Some changes for the final list of 42 players selected to prepare for the first match of the fall tour, November 9 at the Stade de France against Japan.
Hit in the knee this Saturday during training in Marcoussis, Racingman Nolann Le Garrec was forced to withdraw. He is replaced by the Toulon scrum half, Baptiste Serin (30 years old, 46 caps, captain last July during the tour to Argentina), who accompanies Antoine Dupont and Maxime Lucu in this position.
Merchant back, first for Darricarrère
Among the 19 players released Wednesday evening, four are not back: UBB hooker Maxime Lamothe, Racingman Cameron Woki, Rochelais Antoine Hastoy (flyhalf) and Jonathan Danty (center).
They are respectively replaced by the Toulouse Julien Marchand (handicapped by muscular discomfort, he was not part of the first list), the neophyte Pierre Bochaton, the Lyonnais Léo Berdeu (called up in the first list, the latter two had to forfeit ), and by the novelty of this list, the young Clermont center Léon Darricarrère.
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