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A new incubator.
This is how Fabien Galthié qualifies the tour of the XV of France in Japan this summer.
The Blues, winners of the Grand Slam last March, will indeed be deprived of the finalists of the Top 14, but also of about fifteen executives left to rest at the end of a big season.
The Toulousains Dupont, Ntamack, Baille and other Jelonch will go on vacation.
Like Gaël Fickou or Romain Taofifenua (the latter asked to be exempted).
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It is therefore a new-look group of 42 players who will fly away on June 22 for the empire at the Rising Sun.
With some names already known.
Thus the Toulonnais Charles Ollivon and Jean-Baptiste Gros, the Lyonnais Dylan Cretin and the Clermontois Damian sheepish;
The coach formalized these names in the columns of Midi Olympique, specifying that they will also be part of the British Barbarians who will face England on June 19 at Twickenham, and who will be managed by Galthié and part of this staff.
Vakatawa, Le Garrec and Spring called up if Racing is not in the final of the Top 14
In the exclusive interview granted to the bi-weekly, the tricolor coach gives leads on the probable called up.
He quotes, pell-mell, the Bayonne pillar Matis Perchaud, the hooker of the RCT Christopher Tolofua, the pillar of Clermont Sipili Falatea or the Oyonnaxien Thomas Laclayat.
On the new side, the Bordelais Pierre Bochaton and Bastien Vergnes-Taillefer, the Rochelais Matthias Haddad, the Palois Jordan Joseph are also on the shortlist.
Provided you do not play the final.
Ditto for Racingmen Virimi Vakatawa, Max Spring and Nolann Le Garrec.
Fabien Galthié also cites Bayonnais Rémy Baget and Montois Léo Coly.
On the other hand, he announces the packages of the center of the LOU, Pierre-Louis Barassi, and of the one who would have been the surprise of the group: the center Antoine Frisch, who shone this season in the jersey of Bristol.
Unfortunately for him, the future player from the Irish province of Munster, injured in the shoulder, will not be recovered in time.