Les Bleues are still having a funny season, still disrupted by the health crisis.
After the postponement of the Tournament decided in January and then reviewed in a condensed format, the World Cup in New Zealand, initially scheduled for September-October, was postponed to 2022 last month.
The Tournament therefore takes even more depth in the French ambitions and this even if it has been reduced to three matches instead of five and with a distribution of the teams in two groups.
Poured into pool A, the Blue will travel to Ireland on April 17 after the reception of the Welsh, last of the previous edition.
Then they may challenge the English, double title holders, in the final on April 24.
"In view of the situation, the objective is to win the Tournament", underlines the captain and third line of the Bleues Gaëlle Hermet who "tries to be positive" in this year still complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.
"We say to ourselves that perhaps in a year the sanitary conditions will be better, that we will have a craze around the World Cup which can only be festive and that better with why not spectators who will be in the stadiums"
Gaëlle Hermet
"We say to ourselves that perhaps in a year the sanitary conditions will be better, that we will have a craze around the World Cup which can only be festive and that better with why not spectators who will be in the stadiums", continues the player of the Stade Toulousain, already captain during the Grand Slam of 2018. The English women, whom the Blue will find in their group at the World Cup, have won the last two editions with the Grand Slam at stake.
The path from here to a possible “Crunch” in the final this year is not insurmountable.
The Welsh have the appearance of an appetizer for the "Affamées", the nickname of the French.
Last year, Annick Hayraud's players swept them away in Cardiff (50-0).
The Irish, third in 2020, may pose more problems for them.
Composition of the groups:
Pool A: England, Italy, Scotland
Pool B: France, Ireland, Wales
The Tournament program:
Saturday April 3
4:00 p.m .: England-Scotland
9:00 p.m .: France-Wales
Saturday April 10
3:00 p.m .: Italy-England
6:00 p.m .: Wales-Ireland
Saturday April 17
3:15 p.m .: Ireland-France
6:00 p.m .: Scotland-Italy
Saturday April 24
Final and matches classification
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