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By Matt Hardy When Ben O’Keeffe blew his full-time whistle last Saturday afternoon it marked the conclusion of round one of the Six Nations. And amid the feelings of what could have been for Scotland after their Wales scare or for England with Italy breathing down their necks, it was France who left a longstanding and unsavoury aftertaste upon reflection. Because Les Bleus have become everything you’re supposed to love about rugby: their head coach Fabien Galthie speaks as a poet would do reciting his favourite stanzas to an audience, their defence coach Shaun Edwards has the northern grit of …

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