Brian O’Driscoll believes France head coach Fabien Galthie is ‘in bother’ 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 bother, I actually would,” O’Driscoll informed Off The Ball.
“I believe they’d have been a number of folks’s suggestions for the event, many individuals saying they have 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, however it feels prefer it’s unravelling.
“And I believe France have been at their finest beneath Galthie, and notably ’22, they performed with an enormous confidence and a perception and sure, there was a very good little bit of off the cuff, however it felt as if there was some type of construction.
“I believe 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 obtained himself a purple card, earlier to that he obtained a yellow card towards Leicester within the Champions Cup earlier within the 12 months for getting into excessive like that as effectively. You simply can’t run in at velocity right into a collision like that anymore.
