Galthié I, from 2020 to the last Tournament, worked differently. Certainly, he had happened, right from the start, to downgrade Jefferson Poirot, who went from vice-captain at the World Cup in Japan, to replacing Cyril Baille in the first two teams of the Galthié era before being ejected from the 23 in the third. In general, as during the last Tournament, the coach gave himself time. He had waited until the fourth match of the Six Nations to dismiss Danty, Lucu, Woki and Jalibert. The demotion-promotion system rather happened from one competition to another, as with Brice Dulin, starting the entire 2021 Tournament, and Melvyn Jaminet, discovered during the summer tour in Australia and installed at the back for true from November of that same year. The destinies of Baptiste Serin and Brice Dulin are interesting from this point of view. Galthié showed them consideration by appointing them captains (Serin in 2020 then in Argentina last summer, Dulin in a World Cup preparation match) but he did not select them for the World Cup.
