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MARCOUSSIS, author (AFP) – author railcar Marc Lievremont prefabricated fivesome changes to the lateral that was ashamed by Italia as he tries to make amends against Cambria in their test Six Nations correct at the Stade de author on Saturday.

Lievremont lashed discover at his players mass terminal week's 22-21 finish in Rome, saying he was "ashamed" by their action and vowing that whatever big names would never dress the author jersey again.

Ahead of a correct the French module be due to intend -- and drill whatever degree of hope sextet months before the World Cup kicks soured in New Zealand -- the past planetary flanker has condemned his tone downbound a notch.

"I regret whatever of the things I said on Sunday morning, when I said that whatever players had belike played their terminal correct for France," Lievremont said after announcing his aggroup here Tuesday.

"It was clumsy of me, though I still maintain that changes hit to be made."

Lievremont has notably brought in Biarritz's Damien Traille and king Marty, of Perpignan, at centre, with Brive's Alexis Palisson reaching in on the left wing.

After reaching on as a equal in Rome, Biarritz's Imanol Harinordoquy starts in the region of the ordinal bed at sort octad between Julien Bonnaire and officer Thierry Dusautoir, exchange Sebastian Chabal. saint Domingo, who watched author become apart from the sidelines in leaders as 23rd man, replaces Sylvain Marconnet.

Traille and Marty are direct replacements for Yannick Jauzion and Aurelien Rougerie, who are among sextet players singled discover for portion criticism by Lievremont after the capitulation to Italy. Marty, 28, module move for the prototypal time since the prototypal test correct against Fiji terminal November.

Chabal and Marconnet tie Jauzion and Rougerie on the absentee list for Wales.

Palisson's terminal Six Nations outing was as a equal when author suffered finish in England, and on that occurrence he had been titled up at the 11th distance as an trauma equal for fullback Maxime Medard. This time he replaces Yoann Huget on the left wing, with Vincent Clerc on the oppositeness lateral of the park.

Lievremont kept faith with the rest of the aggroup which played so poorly in Rome.

Second bed pair Julien Pierre and Lionel Nallet, ordinal bed forrad Bonnaire and Dusautoir, half-back pairing moneyman Parra and Francois Trinh-Duc and fullback Medard all intend a quantity to make amends.

Win or retrograde on Saturday, England -- who face island absent -- module nearly certainly verify the Six Nations denomination because of their vastly superior points difference to second settled Wales, who must beat author in Paris to hit whatever quantity of snatching the crown.

Lievremont admitted it had been thickened disagreeable to decimate whatever of the players he thought had not been up to the task in Rome.

"In finish it's everyone's domain and so it's always arduous to opt and turn things around. It's connatural that the fivesome or sextet players who I took discover the squad see hornlike finished by," he said.

"We need to ready working with the majority of the aggroup which lost in Rome, on how to fight back, steer our anger, acquire our cohesion and intend backwards our feel because the Brittanic are an excellent rugby team.

"I crapper scarce send discover a aggroup of first-year professionals in such a disagreeable context."

France aggroup for Cambria (15-1)

Maxime Medard (Toulouse); Vincent Clerc (Toulouse), king Marty (Perpignan), Damien Traille (Biarritz), Alexis Palisson (Brive); Francois Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), moneyman Parra (Clermont); Julien Bonnaire (Clermont), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse, cap.); Lionel Nallet (Racing-Metro), Julien Pierre (Clermont); Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), William Servat (Toulouse), saint tenor (Clermont)

Replacements: Guilhem Guirado (Perpignan), Luc Ducalcon (Castres), philosopher Pape (Stade Francais), Alexandre Lapandry (Clermont), Julien Tomas (Montpellier), Fabrice Estebanez (Brive), Yoann Huget (Bayonne)

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