They were the main absentees from the match against Ireland, they remain the main absentees from the list of 42 called up to prepare for the trip to Cardiff on Sunday February 15.
In their absence, the Blues shone and the players who replaced them all rose to the occasion, whether it was Anthony Jelonch at number 8, centers Nicolas Depoortere or Yoram Moefana or right winger Théo Attissogbe.
Another player is still missing in the person of opener Romain Ntamack, victim of a muscle injury after being hit in the kidney.
Note the returns of Thibaud Flament, who had missed the opening match to accompany his partner in her PMA, and Paul Boudehent who recovered from a shock to the head.
The list of 42 does not contain any major surprise otherwise: we find the winners of Ireland including all the leaders, the scrum-half and captain Antoine Dupont, the fly-half Matthieu Jalibert, the second row Charles Ollivon, the rocket Louis Bielle-Biarrey, the back-scorer Thomas Ramos or even the revelation Mickaël Guillard.
The list of 42 Blues:
Left pillars : Cyril Baille (Toulouse), Jean-Baptiste Gros (Toulon), Rodrigue Neti (Toulouse).
Hookers : Maxime Lamothe (Bordeaux), Julien Marchand (Toulouse), Peato Mauvaka (Toulouse).
Straight pillars : Dorian Aldegheri (Toulouse), Georges-Henri Colombe (Toulouse), Régis Montagne (Clermont), Tevita Tatafu (Bayonne).
Second line : Hugo Auradou (Pau), Joshua Brennan (Toulouse), Mickaël Guillard (Lyon), Emmanuel Meafou (Toulouse), Tom Staniforth (Castres), Thibaud Flament (Toulouse).
Third line: Paul Boudehent (La Rochelle), François Cros (Toulouse), Alexandre Fischer (Bayonne), Oscar Jegou (La Rochelle), Anthony Jelonch (Toulouse), Temo Matiu (Bordeaux), Lenni Nouchi (Montpellier), Charles Ollivon (Toulon).
Scrum halves: Thibault Daubagna (Pau), Baptiste Serin (Toulon), Antoine Dupont (Toulouse).
Openers: Axel Desperes (Pau), Matthieu Jalibert (Bordeaux).
Centres : Emilian Galleton (Pau), Yoram Moefna (Bordeaux), Noah
Wingers: Grégoire Arfeuil (Pau), Théo Attissogbe (Pau), Louis Bielle-Biarrey (Bordeaux), Gaël Dréan (Toulon), Aaron Grandidier (Pau).
Rear: Romain Buros (Bordeaux), Thomas Ramos (Toulouse), Cheikh Tiberghien (Bayonne).
