Ireland's rugby team is getting ready for their Six Nations meeting with France in Marseille. The team has been training in the Algarve and will face a new challenge with a new captain and new faces. Despite the newness, there is a sense of familiarity as they return to France once again.
It was a familiar week for Ireland with a pre-tournament training camp in the Algarve followed by a trip to Marseille . Ireland 's Calvin Nash and Joe McCarthy during the captain's run ahead of the Six Nations meeting with France in Marseille . Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho It’s a new tournament, thank heavens for that, and a new challenge, beginning with a new venue, a new captain, three new-ish faces and the newness of a Friday night start and a potential championship decider to boot.
Yet there’s also a whiff of déjà vu in the air, not least being back in France. Some of us have been to France so often in 2023-24 that we could almost be tax exiles. Even a week’s summer holidays in the south-west was a precursor to another week in the Basque country for warm-up win over Samoa, which was in turn followed by a month or so in Tours with weekend ventures to Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris from a base in Tours, followed by a month in the French capital. This week, Andy Farrell seems almost to have recreated the World Cup in microcos
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