FRANCE v IRELAND
Saturday 9 February 2008
Stade de France, St Denis
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Touch judges: Wayne Barnes (England), Tim Hayes (Wales)
TMO: Hugh Watkins (Wales)

Head to Head
All matches
Played 83
France won 50
Ireland won 28
Drawn 5

Biggest wins
Ireland Points 31-43 2006
Margin 24-0 1913

France Points 45-10 1996
Margin 44-5 2002

Ireland v France since 2000
Played 10
France won 7 2002, 2003RWC, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2007RWC
Ireland won 3 2000, 2001, 2003

France won last six games; France led 43-3 in 2006 before winning 43-31

International Championship all time records

Points
443 Jonny Wilkinson (England)
406 Neil Jenkins (Wales)
406 Ronan O?Gara (Ireland)
294 Stephen Jones (Wales)
288 Gavin Hastings (Scotland)
278 Chris Paterson (Scotland)
270 David Humphreys (Ireland)

Tries
24 Ian Smith (Scotland)
18 Cyril Lowe (England)
18 Rory Underwood (England)
18 Gareth Edwards (Wales)
17 Brian O?Driscoll (Ireland)

France ? form guide from 2007 Six Nations
Italy (6N) A W 39-3
Ireland (6N) A W 20-17
Wales (6N) H W 32-21
England (6N) A L 18-26
Scotland (6N) H W 46-19
NZ A L 11-42
NZ A L 10-61
England A W 22-15
England H W 22-9
Wales A W 34-7
Argentina (RWC) H L 12-17
Namibia (RWC) H W 87-10
Ireland (RWC) H W 25-3
Georgia (RWC) H W 64-7
NZ (RWC) N W 20-18
England (RWC) H L 9-14
Argentina (RWC) H L 10-34
Scotland (6N) A W 27-6

Ireland ? form guide from start of 2007 Six Nations
Wales (6N) A W 19-9
France (6N) H L 17-20
England (6N) H W 43-13
Scotland (6N) A W 19-18
Italy (6N) A W 51-24
Argentina A L 20-22
Argentina A L 0-16
Scotland A L 21-31
Italy H W 23-20
Namibia (RWC) N W 32-17
Georgia (RWC) N W 14-10
France (RWC) A L 3-25
Argentina (RWC) N L 15-30
Italy (6N) H W 16-11

France ? most capped players
118 Fabien Pelous
111 Philippe Sella
98 Raphael Ibanez
93 Serge Blanco
89 Olivier Magne
78 Abdelatif Benazzi
71 Olivier Brouzet
71 Jean-Luc Sadourny
71 Sylvain Marconnet
71 Christian Califano

France ? all time leading points scorers
380 Christophe Lamaison
367 Thierry Lacroix
354 Didier Camberabero
267 Gerald Merceron
265 Jean-Pierre Romeu
247 Thomas Castaignede
246 Frederic Michalak
234 Dimitri Yachvili
200 Jean-Paul Lescarboura
199 Jean-Baptiste Elissalde

France ? all time leading try scorers
38 Serge Blanco
33 Philippe Saint-Andre
30 Philippe Sella
26 Emile Ntamack
26 Philippe Bernat-Salles
25 Christophe Dominici
23 Christian Darrouy

Ireland ? most capped players
90 Malcolm O?Kelly
80 Peter Stringer
80 Brian O?Driscoll
80 John Hayes
79 Girvan Dempsey
78 Ronan O?Gara
72 David Humphreys
70 Kevin Maggs
69 Mike Gibson
63 Willie John McBride
63 Simon Easterby
62 Anthony Foley
62 Denis Hickie

Ireland ? all time leading points scorers
790 Ronan O?Gara
560* David Humphreys
308 Michael Kiernan
296 Eric Elwood
217 Ollie Campbell
167 Brian O?Driscoll
* does not include penalty try v Scotland in 1999

World Rugby all-time top points scorers

The Top 8
1090 Neil Jenkins (1049-Wales 41-Lions)
1043 Jonny Wilkinson (996-England 47-Lions)
1010 Diego Dominguez (27-Argentina 983-Italy)
967 Andrew Mehrtens (NZ)
911 Michael Lynagh (Australia)
878 Matt Burke (Australia)
873 Percy Montgomery (SA)
790 Ronan O?Gara (Ireland)

Ireland ? all time leading try scorers
31 Brian O?Driscoll
29 Denis Hickie
20 Shane Horgan
19 Girvan Dempsey
18 Geordan Murphy
17 Brendan Mullin
15 Keith Wood
15 Kevin Maggs
14 George Stephenson
14 Ronan O?Gara