Fin Smith is the man in charge of serving a quantum jump forward.
The 22 -year -old begins with seven alternative matches, with a total of 122 minutes of testing, for his name, in the first half against the preferred nations.
Fortunately, it has wide shoulders.
Smith appeared for the first time with Worsester at the age of 18, lost his first 10 games against Warriors, then watched the club starting at the end of his second season.
Since then, Northhampton has twice to the matching matches, and won the Premier League title last season.
It is still a bold call. Marcus Smith was the future once as well.
Now, after eight consecutive games in the ten shirt, the Harlequins playmaker returns to his unfamiliar and uncommon role.
The theory is clear.
Fin Smith is 10 traditional 10, playing flat on the line and finds holes with his choice of traffic and widening vision, instead of Marcus's individual brilliance.
It is hoped that the centers will give Henry Selid and Lawrence more than one platform. With his holy colleagues Alex Mitchell at Scrum-Half, Tommy Freeman and Olie Sleightholme on the wings, Northampton Connections should help the team to click.
Against a French team kicking the distance, instead of creating air dueling, Marcus Smith's ability to choose his way through a broken field will be either a deterrent or weapon.
Elsewhere, the rear row is strengthened with Tom Willis insert, and the seat, which won only 81 games against Ireland, has the experience of former captain Jimmy George, with 97, and Ellist Daly, with 69, to protect against England in the last quarter in the last quarter.
This is the theory.
Whether it is alive in contact with France's mixture of ballet and brutal though it is another thing.
It seems that the game of Captain Antoine Doubont has been raised to another level by its time with the seven Olympic victory team in France.
The victory last weekend against Wales was the twenty-fourth consecutive victory in Toulouse star in a row in the beginning of the 15-year-old match-a race that extends to the defeat of France's quarter-final by South Africa in October 2023.
Mattheu Jalibert is a half -fly with the devil to his game and a point to prove it after overcoming it.
Dahir Thomas Ramos remained integrated from the starting point. Damian Pino Wings and Luis Billy Pierre have a bullet.
