Another breathless, brilliant encounter to ridicule the idea that rugby union was somehow better in the old days. France won with a bonus point, Gaël Fickou’s last-minute try earning them the garnish and denying Scotland even the consolation of a point of their own. How the visitors would have been worth it, or indeed the full five.
Not that the full five do anything to change France’s place in the table. They stay in fourth, but now there are three teams on 10 points, five behind Ireland on maximum points at the top of the table. The French, having lost to Ireland already, now look to Scotland themselves and England, whom France play in the next round, to try to stop an Irish march to the title.
