{"id":704440,"date":"2026-01-18T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704440\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:01:19","slug":"frances-romain-ntamack-expected-to-miss-six-nations-opener-against-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704440\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Romain Ntamack expected to miss Six Nations opener against Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/france-rugby\/\">France<\/a> may be without outhalf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/romain-ntamack\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/romain-ntamack\/\">Romain Ntamack<\/a> for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/six-nations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/six-nations\/\">Six Nations<\/a> opener against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-rugby\/\">Ireland<\/a> on Thursday, February 5th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">According to reports in France, the 26-year-old suffered an injury while playing for his club, Toulouse, in the Top 14 last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ntamack played the full 80 minutes in Toulouse\u2019s 60-14 win over Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s La Rochelle on December 28th, but was replaced at 10 by Kalvin Gourgues for their 30-27 defeat away to Perpignan a week later and did not feature on the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ntamack, capped 43 times for his country, has been a central figure in Fabien Galthi\u00e9\u2019s French team but looks likely to be out until their second-round clash against Wales in Cardiff, missing Ireland\u2019s trip to the Stade de France the week prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In last year\u2019s Six Nations, Ntamack was Galthi\u00e9\u2019s first-choice 10, starting in three of their five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was ruled out for France\u2019s second and third round fixtures against England and Scotland after picking up a red card in their opening win over Wales, but returned to the starting fold for Les Bleus\u2019 42-27 win in Dublin and their Super Saturday victory over Scotland which clinched the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France may be without outhalf Romain Ntamack for their Six Nations opener against Ireland on Thursday, February 5th.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,4206,35532,4209],"class_list":{"0":"post-704440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-france-rugby","12":"tag-romain-ntamack","13":"tag-six-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115916707104135074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704440","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=704440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}