JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

Fabien Galthie will have a reduced training squad for the 2024 Six Nations after a player release agreement was reached between the FFR and LNR this week. That news would have been the rugby story of the week in France, but for Friday afternoon’s emerging quantum singularity about Owen Farrell and his reported move to Top 14 side Racing 92.
After news broke that Farrell was – depending on which report you read – close to signing a two-or three-year deal with Racing, the Ile de France club issued a short and very specifically worded statement denying that, “an...