Brian O’Driscoll believes France head coach Fabien Galthie is ‘in hassle’ after a poor run of type.
France are fourth within the Six Nations standings a irritating draw with Italy left them 9 factors off leaders Eire.
“I’d say he’s in hassle, I actually would,” O’Driscoll informed Off The Ball.
“I feel they’d have been a lot of individuals’s suggestions for the event, many individuals saying they had been going to win the Slam, there’s going to be the bounce-back from their disappointment. It’s actually hung over them. It feels as if, not saying it’s unravelled, nevertheless it feels prefer it’s unravelling.
“And I feel France have been at their greatest below Galthie, and significantly ’22, they performed with an enormous confidence and a perception and sure, there was a great little bit of off the cuff, nevertheless it felt as if there was some type of construction.
“I feel they’re a workforce that appears low on confidence. [Matthieu] Jalibert went off injured however there’s a tentativeness to them.
“My participant of the event at the beginning [Jonathan] Danty has been invisible – he bought himself a purple card, earlier to that he bought a yellow card in opposition to Leicester within the Champions Cup earlier within the 12 months for stepping into excessive like that as properly. You simply can’t run in at pace right into a collision like that anymore.
