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Double change for France
Clerc and Palisson called up to face Ireland
Last updated: 10th February 2010 
France coach Marc Lievremont has made just two injury-enforced changes for Saturday's crunch RBS Six Nations clash with Ireland.
Les Bleus saw Benjamin Fall and Aurelien Rougerie ruled out the match in Paris after they picked up knocks in the opening win over Scotland at Murrayfield.
Rougerie was injured making a tackle in just the fifth minute so free-scoring back Vincent Clerc takes his spot on the wing having come off the bench on Sunday.
Fall was initially declared fit for the match, however he was subsequently replaced by Julien Malzieu in the match-day squad.
Malzieu will now take Clerc's place on the bench, with 22-year-old Brive back Alexis Palisson going straight into the starting XV.
Lievremont said: "You don't change a winning team. Playing Vincent Clerc from the start shouldn't cause a debate, there was a lot of discussion on who to play on the left wing.
"We decided to go with the versatility and left foot of Alexis Palisson.
"We know the qualities of Julien Malzieu but it seemed interesting to us to have the presence of Alexis alongside Clement Poitrenaud."
Prop Luc Ducalcon, a replacement against Scotland, also misses out through injury so the experienced Sylvain Marconnet comes onto the bench.
France: 15 Clement Poitrenaud, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 11 Alexis Palisson, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Imanol Harinordoquy, 7 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Pascal Pape, 4 Lionel Nallet, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Thomas Domingo.
Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Sylvain Marconnet, 18 Julien Pierre, 19 Julien Bonnaire, 20 Frederic Michalak, 21 David Marty, 22 Julien Malzieu.
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Comments (4)
J B says...
Jezza Jezza 'The French backs will have too much pace and skill for the irish'? How do you justify saying that? The irish have the best backline definately in the northern hemisphere, if Ireland win on Saturday, which they have a great chance of doing, then the grand slam is on again. Ireland to win by 8.
Posted 09:08 11th February 2010
Michael Byrne says...
The french scrum yes is better but the irish centres o driscoll darcy and the wings and full back bowe and kearney are superior to the french, if the scrum holds ireland win
Posted 01:44 11th February 2010
Thomas Bohan says...
French Relying on a ref in Paris where did we see that before? Ireland know where they need to improve from the Italy game! Ireland to win hopefully fair play in Paris will prevail!!!
Posted 15:14 10th February 2010
Jezza Jezza says...
Even with these enforced changes I still believe that France will be too strong for the Irish; the french scrum was superb against the scottish and if they secure good quick ball the french backs will have too much pace and skill for then irish...just hope the ref is strict on the irish trying to slow down quick ball and penalises them early on vive las France
Posted 10:34 10th February 2010