Old foes form uneasy alliance in attempt to make France less predictable again

Guy Novès and Bernard Laporte have never got on but they are the two figures responsible for fixing the problems that have left France without a Six Nations title to their name since 2010Despite everything the clichés lead us to believe, we usually do know which French team are going to turn up, and while they may well be able to beat anyone on the day they seldom do. For the past five years France have been as mercurial as the February weather. They last won the Six Nations in 2010, came second the year after, and since then have finished fourth, sixth, fourth, fourth and fifth. Among the wor…