JAMES HARRINGTON

FRENCH COLUMN

No sooner have France’s Top 14 clubs just about closed the book on recruitment for the year then speculation begins on who may be heading where at the end of the following season.
It’s been a relatively quiet year on the player-movement front in the French top-flight. To date, with most moves all but complete, World Cupwinner Warrick Gelant’s switch from URC side Stormers to Racing 92 is, by some margin, the biggest inward recruitment in French rugby for next season.
But one club president has just thrown red meat to a ravenous ...