Jefferson Poirot: ‘We were optimistic even before Scotland beat England’

France prop uses hypnosis to prepare for big games and says there will be no lack of aggression from the hosts in Saturday’s Six Nations showdown in ParisWith the surname Poirot it was perhaps inevitable that France’s loose-head prop would develop a heightened interest in using “the little grey cells”. Front-rows have definitely changed. While it is 36 years since the England prop Colin Smart was infamously tricked into swilling aftershave at the post-match banquet in Paris, the thoughtful Jefferson Poirot explains how his preparation for Saturday’s Test against the English will mainly be in t…