France Rugby XV: Teddy Thomas (Racing 92) on the wing.

Posted on February 11, 2016 by bill

Tournoi des Six Nations : Teddy Thomas titularisé face à l’Irlande. Teddy Thomas picked against Ireland.

Rugby par Rédaction de France Info jeudi 11 février 2016 11:19

Teddy Thomas, l’ailier du Racing 92, a été titularisé © maxPPP

Le manager du XV de France Guy Novès a procédé à six changements pour affronter l’Irlande samedi dans le Tournoi des six nations. L’ailier Teddy Thomas a été préféré à Hugo Bonneval. Guy Noves makes six changes to face Ireland on Saturday in the VI Nations match. Winger Teddy Thomas is preferred to Hugo Bonneval.

Blessé face à l’Irlande dans le Tournoi il y a un an, Teddy Thomas n’avait plus depuis joué avec les Bleus. Une semaine après la courte victoire face à l’Italie (23-21), Guy Novès a également titularisé les piliers Jefferson Poirot et Uini Atonio, le deuxième ligne Alexandre Flanquart, le troisième ligne Yacouba Camara et le centre Maxime Mermoz. Un match qui s’annonce difficile : le XV de France n’a plus battu le XV du Trèfle, double tenant du titre dans le Tournoi depuis 2011.

Injured against Ireland in last year’s VI Nations, Teddy Thomas hasn’t played for France since. A week after a narrow victory against Italy (23-21), Guy Noves has  also selected props  Jefferson Poirot & Uini Atonio, second row Alexandre Flanquart, backrow Yacouba Camara and centre Maxime Mermoz. A match seen as difficult: France hasn’t beaten Ireland, two in a row VI Nations champions since 2011.

France XV: 15 Medard, 14 Thomas, 13 Mermoz, 12 Danty, 11 Vakatana. 10 Plisson, 9 Bezy, 8 Camara, 7 Chouly, 6 Lauret, 5 Maestri, 4 Flanquart, 3 Atonia, 2 Guirado (C), 1 Poirot.

Subs: 16 Chat, 17 Slimani, 18 Ben Arous, 19 Jedraslak, 20 Goujon, 21 Machanaud, 22 Doussain, 23 Bonneval.

par Rédaction de France Info jeudi 11 février 2016 11:19

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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