JAMES HARRINGTON | FRENCH COLUMN

What links 16 props, 12 hookers, 10 second rows, 15 back rowers, 13 scrum-halves, 11 wingers, eight centres, two full-backs, and one fly-half?
This – you’ll no doubt be pleased to read early – is not some obscure, willfully vague and difficult rugby-related Only Connect-style question.
Every one of those props, hookers, locks, back rows, nines, wingers, centres, full-backs and the fly-half was on a list, drawn up by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and Fédération Française de Rugby in concert with players’ union Provale, of nearly 90 France-based professional ...