It’s a mini-slip, dropped on the stage of the Cité du livre in Aix-en-Provence where the XV of France held part of its press conferences in Bouches-du-Rhône. A journalist takes the microphone and questions Matthieu Jalibert on the way in which his partner at Union Bordeaux-Bègles, scrum half Maxime Lucu, is managing his upcoming start against Italy after Antoine Dupont’s fracture. “Romain’s injury…” he begins, before correcting himself and giving the correct first name of his captain.
