France boss Marc Lievremont may struggle for new recruits this season
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Peter Bills previews the start of the new Top 14 season and looks at the selection problems facing France coach Marc Lievremont in The Irish Independent.
"Down on the beaches beside the Mediterranean or on the Atlantic coast, bikinis still rule the day. The summer sun shines down and no one is thinking of winter.
"Yet tomorrow evening, not halfway through August, the 2010-11 French rugby season begins. We can be sure it will start in a pool of sweat with players' faces as red as lobsters.
"To alleviate the traditional high temperatures of August in the south of France -- the heartland of French rugby -- most matches will not begin until 8.0 at night. A cool beer or two at a pavement cafe in the town at Castres, a glass beside the port at Toulon or a cafe noir overlooking the Atlantic at Biarritz ... then off to the rugby. It is certainly an alluring prospect."
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