JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

The Top 14 returned after a three-week international break for two rounds ahead of the start of the European competitions, with England head coach Eddie Jones in the south-west of the country, watching a match featuring a player in action for Montpellier he routinely overlooked.
Jones was in the stands at the GGL Stadium for the match between Montpellier and Castres, seated between the visiting side’s president Pierre-Yves Revol and director of rugby Matthias Rolland.
It wasn’t the host’s summer signing Zach Mercer that Jones came to see, but he could no...