Nice (AFP)

Six wounded in everything! The XV of France has found Thursday, two days of his preparation match against Scotland in Nice, the damage of his intense physical preparation for the World Cup, which will not see Geoffrey Doumayrou, package.

"If you happen to have a prep with zero injuries, including one like this one with a lot of fast races to rehearsal, you're strong, we lose a few guys along the way ..." The analysis is signed Wesley Fofana, who knows about injuries. The center of Clermont is not this time in the wrong car that took another center, Doumayrou, to move away permanently from Japan (September 20 - November 2).

Victim of an injury to an Achilles heel, the Rochelais had to withdraw in the morning and leave the Blues in the afternoon. At 29, he may have missed his chance to play in a World Cup. "I am very disappointed for him," said his teammate Grégory Grégory Alldritt. "When we do all the preparation, get hurt like that at the entrance of friendlies? He will get by and get back on the slope, that's for sure."

"We got along very well, he was an integral part of the group, it's a shame for him," added Fofana. Doumayrou, whose substitute could only be appointed Sunday, after the match, therefore certainly pay the frenetic rhythms imposed for a month and a half by the physical trainer Thibault Giroud, obsessed with the intensity of the effort and the concatenation of stains.

- Picamoles suitable for the bench -

Doumayrou is not the only one, although for the others, it's less serious: the captain and hooker Guilhem Guirado (ribs), the third line Yacouba Camara and Wenceslas Lauret (hamstring) and the scrum half Maxime Machenaud (Thigh) are also affected and will not resume earlier than next week for the return leg in Scotland.

Lightly touched pubis, Louis Picamoles is still on the game sheet against the XV thistle, but as a substitute. Finally, the case of Demba Bamba is still not resolved: the right pillar, operated early June cervical training normally, according to the coach Jacques Brunel, but is still not able to regain the competition.

After two training days on Wednesday and Thursday at the Arboras stadium, the stadium of the Nice Stadium located on the left bank of the Var, the Blues will tread on Friday the lawn of the Allianz Riviera, in the same western part of Nice, for the coach Jefferson Poirot, who replaces Guirado in this role.

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