Jo Maso
Jo Maso
Jo Masois a former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played centre and fly-half for the France national rugby union team, gaining 25 caps. He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2003. He is now the manager for the French national team...
beaten home last matches november seven since three tournament tries won
We have won 13 out of 15 matches in the tournament in three years, we are unbeaten at home in seven matches since last November and we have beaten the tries record.
hold managing morning prefer train wednesday
We prefer to keep managing it (the strain). Frederic wanted to train from Wednesday morning but we prefer to hold him back.
continue group leave peace preferred
We preferred to leave the group in place to let them continue working in peace.
against ahead beat continue forge good half second team
The team had a very good second half against the Italians, and we want to continue to forge ahead to beat the English.
cup defeating home ireland main match mean played season stay until
Defeating Ireland is no mean thing. The main thing was to win. It's our first match at home this season and we said we wanted to stay unbeaten at home until the 2007 World Cup which will be played in France. We are still on course.
captain cup fully proved pure return
The return of Fabien is pure logic. He's our captain and he proved with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup that he was fully fit.
capable choose member physical potential regular rest
If we called him up it's because he is capable of playing. We did not want to rest him for the first match. We've always said that if we had to choose between a regular first-team member who is at 80% of his physical potential and his replacement who is at 100%, we would take the latter.
best competition field injured nations players six true win
Christophe was injured in November. He is one of our best wings. We want to win the Six Nations because it's a true competition and we want to field the best players available.
continue four matches true
It's true there hasn't been too much change, but there were four interesting matches in November. We have to continue in this line.
badly bruised club decided doctors french knee left match today training until
Florian badly bruised his left knee in a French championship match with his Toulouse club on Saturday. He had a scan today and doctors decided that he should be exempted from training until Wednesday. We'll see then if he has recovered.
guarantees injury per plays
If he plays and he's not at 100 per cent, the injury will worsen. We need to have guarantees and not take any risks.
case feeling hope less martin resume today training treatment
The case of Martin is less serious. He has a fever, but he is under treatment and was feeling better today and we hope he will resume training tomorrow.
match played players together tournament
The first match of the tournament is always tricky. The players have not played together for a long time.