JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

FRANCE could… Scotland need… Australia on the brink of… Fiji might … South Africa will… Wales already have… If Italy… There seem to have been more permutations swirling around Rugby World Cup quarter-final qualification, more than a week out from the end of the pool phase, than there are atoms in the universe ... And let’s not mention the column inches devoted to Antoine Dupont’s head injury, surgery, or recommended recuperation time.
But away from the festival of international rugby playi...