Heading for a sell-out at the Brutus. Standing room only.

Good stuff.

Lets hope we can finally see France play to their potential.

I was just about to put this up. Both teams assured of a quarter final. Win and it's Fiji at Warrington. Lose and It's England at Wigan.

Gigot & Maria in for Elima & Bentley

oh dear.......

Jean-Philippe BAILE

William BARTHAU

Kane BENTLEY

Thomas BOSC

Rémi CASTY

Vincent DUPORT

Olivier ELIMA

Morgan ESCARE

Jamal FAKIR

Benjamin GARCIA

Tony GIGOT

Clint GREENSHIELDS

Kevin LARROYER

Anthony MARIA

Gregory MOUNIS

Eloi PELISSIER

Sébastien RAGUIN

Mickael SIMON

Frédéric VACCARI

Tony Gigot.... The Warrington turnstile

Apparently Gigot had a decent year with the Cronulla B team. I'll give him a chance.

Really poor, that. And for a team that's only scored two tries in three matches to get to the quarter-finals suggests that the format is deeply flawed.

That said, beat England on Saturday and I may laugh my spleen out.

I thought it was a good game.

Samoa were clearly a bit bigger and a bit more powerful but the French held their own for a fair part of the game.

Held their own, but never really looked like scoring in that second half. Then it'd be a penalty to piggyback Samoa downfield and bosh, they're in again. And to think I missed Only Connect for it.

Agreed , several bombed tries away from a win in that game.