The FFR and the LNR have come to an agreement: the Blues coach Fabien Galthié may well have 42 players, including "five training partners", to prepare for the 2021 Six Nations Tournament, AFP learned from sources on Monday. close to the file.
This agreement, which only applies for the 2021 Tournament, has yet to be ratified by the Rugby League steering committee scheduled for Monday evening.
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According to AFP information, the coach will be able to call 37 selectable players and this group will be supplemented by training partners, five in number, to prepare for matches during the famous “high intensity” sessions.
These five reinforcements, necessarily from Top 14 and Pro D2 clubs with no more than one player already selected in the 37, cannot however be selected to play the match of the XV of France at the weekend.
Fourteen players released on Wednesday evening
These five players as well as nine of the 37 will be released to return to their club on Thursday morning, in order to be able to apply for duplicates in the French league.
The clubs will be notified on Wednesday evening, this visibility being one of the major criteria for Top 14 managers during negotiations.
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Les Bleus, second in the 2020 edition, start the 2021 Tournament in Italy on February 6 before traveling to Ireland the following week.
During the winter of 2020, the coach of the XV of France had benefited from 42 players, all selectable, for the preparation of the Six Nations Tournament.
But, during the autumn period, Federation and clubs disagreed on the number of international matches (six in total).
The two parties had finally found a compromise with three match sheets maximum per player and 31 players for the preparation of each meeting.
The coach had to complete training, especially with international rugby sevens.
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