JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

Top 14 coaches, pundits and fans have had the calculators, slide rules and computer modelling programmes out this weekend as they worked through the permutations of the current campaign.
Mark the dates in your diaries: exactly one month from today, four days after the Top 14 final, France coach Fabien Galthie will announce his first 42-player training squad for the World Cup.
Two months later, on August 21, he will confirm the final 33 for the tournament itself.
Between those two dates, the French coaches have given themselves plenty of room for manoeuvre, a...