Now for the French squad, I knew that I had to do something quick cause there was matches this weekend and there will be others on Thursday and as we all know, things can go fast in rugby time.
So Castres' prop Luc Ducalcon has been rule out after he hurt his knee on the match against Perpignan and it's Guilhem Guirado that his call into the squad.
Now there is also incertitudes for Imanol Harinordoquy and Antoine Burban, thought after exams, Imanol Harinordoquy seems ok and he is still in the squad.

What is Ibrahim Diarra like? I can't recall seeing much of him.

Everybody was pretty exited to have a test match played in Toulouse, like said earlier that didn't happen since the 90's – and it was a match against the world champion. So for that occasion les belles nappes et couverts étaient de sorties et c'est avec beaucoup d'envies, en, comme on dit, salivant, que nous arrivions

France 20 – 13 South Africa
Stadium Municipal, Toulouse

The match started really fast with a lot of intensity, a speed and an intensity that went on for the entire match. The French team showed rapidly that they were answering present in the physicality but not only, they didn't want the Spingboks to have the ball and they kept attacking, putting down their game little by little still keeping them under pressure and it's on a mistake that John Smit marked the first try for the Sringboks. Rapidly the French team reacted and in a very nice move from the team, Vincent Clerc conclude a try. There was also other occasions to marked tries for the French team but the Spingboks did hold on good.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb54vk_rugby-vincent-clerc-essais-contr...

Now for me, the French team showed some of her good qualities on that match and put on the right pressure on the Spingboks. It was a good game where they took control on in every sector, with a very important thing, they kept on focus despite making à droite et à gauche quelques boulettes, en tous les cas, mouaaaaa, je me suis, comme on dit, régalée !!! lol : )

France 20 – 13 South Africa

For France
1 Try: Vincent Clerc
5 Pens: Julien Dupuy (4),Morgan Parra

For South Africa
1 Try: John Smit
Con: Morné Steyn
1 Drop: Morné Steyn

For France:
1 Fabien Barcella, 2 William Servat, 3 Nicolas Mas, 4 Lionel Nallet, 5 Romain Millo-Chluski, 6 Capt :Thierry Dusautoir , 7 Imanol Harinordoquy, 8 Louis Picamoles, 9 Julien Dupuy, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 11 Cédric Heymans, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 13 Yann David, 14 Vincent Clerc, 15 Damien Traille
Subs: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Sylvain Marconnet, 18 Sébastien Chabal, 19 Julien Bonnaire, 20 Morgan Parra, 21 David Marty, 22 Maxime Médard.

For South Africa:
1 Tendai Mtawarira, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 3 Capt: John Smit, 4 Bakkies Botha, 5 Victor Matfield, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 7 Schalk Burger, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 9 Fourie du Preez, 10 Morné Steyn, 11 Bryan Habana, 12 Adi Jacobs, 13 Jacques Fourie, 14 Jon Paul Pietersen, 15 Zane Kirchner
Subs: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Wian du Preez, 18 CJ van der Linde, 19 Andries Bekker, 20 Danie Rossouw, 21 Ruan Pienaar, 22 Wynand Olivier.

Now after this good win for the French team under the belt, there is still things to do for the next challenges that are coming.

So the XV Tricolore for the match against the All Blacks at Marseille was given today. Now Maxime Mermoz and Benjamin Fall were rule out for that last test match after an injury on training and an injury following the match against the Samoa. Fulgence Oudraougo makes his return in the team, then for the rest it's a little mix of both matches with couple off switches, so here we are :

1 Fabien Barcella, 2 William Servat, 3 Sylvain Marconnet, 4 Sébastien Chabal, 5 Romain Millo-Chlusky, 6 Capt: Thierry Dusautoir, 7 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 8 Julien Bonnaire, 9 Julien Dupuy, 10 François Trinh Duc, 11 Vincent Clerc, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 13 David Marty, 14 Maxime Médard, 15 Damien Traille
Subs : 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Nicolas Mas, 18 Lionnel Nallet, 19 Julien Puricelli, 20 Morgan Parra, 21 Yann David, 22 Cédric Heymans. 23e : Thomas Domingo.

The New Zealand team should be given (in European) Wednesday but I'll drop bye to give you the composition of the team Thursday then ; )

and something else, congratulation to the American team for joining in the next the rugby world cup.

and here is some following by Naly
http://dropkicks.co.nz/rugby/final_grading_match

and here was the third and last, but like said, not least, test match for the French team against the New Zealand team and it was some nice running rugby test match for the David Gallagher trophy !!!

France 12 - 39 New Zealand

Right away the two teams wanted to play. They put on each other a lot of pressure and with the All Blacks qualities, every time that the French team made a mistake that went back, as we know that with a team like the All Blacks you're entering a "no boulettes" allowed zone. Rapidly Sitiveni Sivivatu followed in some nice move by a nice try by Mils Muliana, marking then the firsts tries for New Zealand, later followed by a nice try by Jérome Kaino, Cory Jane and Conrad Smith . But during the match the French team kept creating occasions but they didn't find the key to go behind the line as the All Black will keep that record clear for this year again. In one point something happened that I didn't see and there was a little moment of "gourmandise" where they all decided to share some caramels before the referee blow the end of the recreation.
Then the All Blacks kept on putting on some more pressure and little by little they took over on divers sector of the game. The French team was to weak on defense and in the ruck area on that match and the All Blacks put on some great, great speed at the execution of their game.

Now some people did "boo" Dan Carter during the match and well, that something that I don't understand particularly in rugby cause you can use the blowing for all kind of more serious reasons ? but well ? ….

En tous les cas et malgré tout, c'était un beau match !!! Congratulation, nice win : )

France 12 - 39 New Zealand

For France
3 Pens: Julien Dupuy
1 Drop: François Trinh-Duc

For New Zealand
5 Tries : Mils Muliaina, Jérome Kaino, Cory Jane, Conrad Smith and Sitiveni Sivivatu
4 Cons: Dan Carter
2 Pens: Dan Carter

Now regarding the French Autumn Tour I think that there are still positive things to build on for the squad.