JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

How do you solve a problem like three current international full-backs competing for the only available 15 jersey at one Top 14 club? That’s the three-into-one issue Toulouse manager Ugo Mola faces from September.
Mola has known for some time that, sooner rather than later, he’d need a replacement for veteran Maxime Medard.
The 35-year-old decided to hang up his boots at the end of the last campaign – going on to stand in June’s parliamentary elections for French Tories Les Republicains. He and running partner Laurence Arribagé were knocked out in the first ...