{"id":269049,"date":"2025-07-17T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269049\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:17:11","slug":"france-turn-to-experience-for-final-all-blacks-test-with-8-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269049\/","title":{"rendered":"France turn to experience for final All Blacks Test with 8 changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

France head coach Fabien Galthie<\/a> has recalled his more experienced players for their final Test against the All Blacks<\/a> in Hamilton on Saturday.<\/p>\n

After fielding a vastly inexperienced side in the 43-17 defeat in Wellington, where over a third of the team were making their debuts, Galthie has opted to recall the established internationals he has at his disposal.<\/p>\n

The 95-cap Ga\u00ebl Fickou returns to the matchday squad after missing the second Test, and will resume his role as captain at inside centre. He will be joined by fellow 50-cap veteran Rabah Slimani<\/a>, who will pack down at tighthead after also being rested for the second Test.<\/p>\n

Even decisions by Galthie to hand first starts of the tour to the 16-cap hooker Pierre Bourgarit<\/a> over the marginally less experienced Ga\u00ebtan Barlot and the nine-cap Antoine Hastoy<\/a> at fly-half over Joris Segonds<\/a>, who only made his debut in the first Test, suggest he is attempting to field the most seasoned international team he has from what is a green squad that he took to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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New Zealand <\/p>\n

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France <\/p>\n

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France XV<\/strong>
1. Baptiste Erdocio<\/a>, 25, 1 cap, Montpellier
2. Pierre Bourgarit<\/a>, 27, 16 caps, La Rochelle
3. Rabah Slimani, 35, 58 caps, Leinster Rugby
4. Hugo Auradou<\/a>, 21, 6 caps, Pau
5. Matthias Halagahu<\/a>, 23, 1 cap, Toulon
6. Alexandre Fischer<\/a>, 27, 1 cap, Bayonne
7. Joshua Brennan<\/a>, 23, 1 cap, Toulouse
8. Micka\u00ebl Guillard, 24, 11 caps, Lyon
9. Nolann Le Garrec<\/a>, 23, 12 caps, La Rochelle
10. Antoine Hastoy<\/a>, 28, 9 caps, La Rochelle
11. Gabin Villi\u00e8re, 28, 19 Caps, Toulon
12. Ga\u00ebl Fickou (captain), 31, 95 caps, Racing 92
13. Nicolas Depoort\u00e8re, 22, 3 caps, Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles
14. Th\u00e9o Attissogb\u00e9, 20, 7 caps, Pau
15. L\u00e9o Barr\u00e9, 22, 8 caps, Stade Fran\u00e7ais<\/p>\n

Replacements<\/strong>
16. Ga\u00ebtan Barlot, 28, 11 caps, Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles
17. Paul Mallez<\/a>, 24, 2 caps, Provence Rugby
18. Demba Bamba<\/a>, 27, 28 caps, Racing 92
19. Romain Taofif\u00e9nua, 34, 56 caps, Racing 92
20. Killian Tixeront<\/a>, 23, 2 caps, ASM Clermont
21. Pierre Bochaton<\/a>, 24, 1 cap, Bordeaux-B\u00e8gles
22. Thibault Daubagna<\/a>, 31, 1 cap, Pau
23. \u00c9milien Gailleton, 22, 9 caps, Pau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France head coach Fabien Galthie has recalled his more experienced players for their final Test against the All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-269049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114868063060386918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}