sport news This French team are not fit and are not focused... until they open their box ...

It wouldn't surprise me if the France team are sitting around their hotel eating a few macaroons, drinking coffee and puffing away on a packet of Marlboro Lights.

Whenever you play against a French team, it's pretty common to see one of their players having a fag while they're waiting for the bus. It amazes me that it still goes on in professional rugby, but it does.

France are nowhere near being one of the fittest teams in world rugby and England will set out to exploit that.

France are nowhere near the fittest team in world rugby and England can look to exploit that

France are nowhere near the fittest team in world rugby and England can look to exploit that

England, Wales, Ireland and New Zealand all talk about how fit they are. There was a time when Warren Gatland would say it so often that everyone believed him, but have you ever heard the French claim to be the fittest side? They don't even pretend.

They beat us last year and it was a dark, dark day to be an England player.

They slowed the game down to their pace by throwing huge bodies into the breakdown to stop our quick ball. We had no answer to it and, having lost to Scotland the week before, it was the start of a downward spiral.

They have every trick up their sleeve to slow the game down. They'll stop to tie up their shoe lace — the 'KitKat' move — walk to the lineouts at snail's pace and reset the scrums.

They will look to slow the game down and have a number of tricks up their sleeve to do that

They will look to slow the game down and have a number of tricks up their sleeve to do that

You'll probably see one of their biggest forwards lying on top of Ben Youngs. He'll claim he's being sneaky and tactical by taking out the scrum-half, but it's probably just an excuse for a breather.

France were terrible in the second half against Wales. It's the ultimate rugby cliche, but you never know whether they're going to be brilliant or dull in attack, have a great set-piece or not give a damn.

You never know which France team will turn up, but I

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