France are up and running with Louis Picamoles a wolfish presence | Eddie Butler

The unfailingly Gallic No8 showed a spirit of hostility against Italy in France’s opener and will be a wonderfully brooding figure at this Rugby World CupFrance are up and running. Well, most of them. Their wing and most involved outside back, Yoann Huget, left the pitch hanging between two field medics. A touch of elegance departed with him. Not that this encounter had anything of the grace of Brighton about it.This was no blossoming of the naïf, no rising of Japan. This was mean. Nobody does a spirit of hostility quite like Louis Picamoles. If it is disguised it is only beneath a heavy,…