27 Quotes by Jo Maso

We preferred to leave the group in place to let them continue working in peace.

We will count on the team from November but competition still exists within the group and that's for the best.

We wanted to select him in July and in November but he was ruled out through injuries. We are glad to give him a new opportunity to prove his worth.

We knew from the beginning that the championship could be more open than the previous years and that the strongest challenge would come from England.

We just talked to Thomas, he said he had fully recovered and would play at the weekend with his Saracens club. Thomas made a brilliant comeback in November. He can play at fly-half, centre or full-back - for the time being we think of him as a full-back.

We expect him to be fit but we don't want him to pass it on to the other guys.

We are very happy to have won three matches so far, and to be unbeaten at Stade de France. But we must remember that we must at all costs win this tournament.

We are of course sorry for Thomas because he made a great comeback in November but he pulled a thigh muscle on Saturday in the Heineken Cup match against Biarritz. We talked to him this morning and he told us he should be fit again in two weeks.

Florian badly bruised his left knee in a French championship match with his Toulouse club on Saturday. He had a scan today and doctors decided that he should be exempted from training until Wednesday. We'll see then if he has recovered.