Wales aim to end French Grand Slam hopes
Wales take on France at the Millennium Stadium on Friday with the visitors going for the Six Nations Grand Slam.
Having dismantled both Scotland and Ireland so far this month we're hoping for a repeat of our marvelous win in Cardiff two years ago when we clinched the title.
Warren Gatland reckons France are favourites
Deiniol Jones and Richie Rees both win their first Championship starts and are the two big surprises in the team. Mike Phillips is on the bench after recovering from ankle ligament damage but he's played less than half a game in four months.
Neil Jenkins dismisses fears over the fitness of Mike Phillips
Coach Warren Gatland said: "We're missing a few key players and defensively we've got a few things we need to tidy up.
"Having said that we passed the ball over 400 times in the first two games so we're trying to play some rugby.
"We just need to be a little bit more accurate in attack and a bit stronger defensively.
"We're going to come up against a good French side but we're confident we can play well and we're confident we can build on the first two games.
"France come here as favourites but we're not daunted by that challenge."
Centre Jamie Roberts is up for the battle with Mathieu Bastareaud
Mathieu Bastareaud is the one French player who's been taking all the headlines after a try scoring start to the tournament. Jamie Roberts will be the man who's got to stop him and he's looking forward to the challenge.
He said: "I've played against him before against France in the Six Nations last year and he was a real handle then.
Prop Adam Jones talks to us about the battle at the scrum
"He's a real physical player so you've just got to front up and be as physical as possible.
"You can't let players like that build up a head of steam as he's extremely tough to stop once he builds up a head of steam.
Full Back Lee Byrne is confident ahead of the game
"He's got a low centre of gravity and very quick player but there we are, I'm sure we'll do a job on him."
The last three Six Nations matches between the two have all gone the way of the home side.
Wales:Lee Byrne (Ospreys); Leigh Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues), James Hook (Ospreys), Jamie Roberts (Blues), Shane Williams (Ospreys); Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Richard Rees (Blues); Paul James, Huw Bennett, Adam Jones (Ospreys), Bradley Davies, Deiniol Jones (Blues), Jonathan Thomas (Ospreys), Martyn Williams (Blues), Ryan Jones (Ospreys, capt)
Replacements:Ken Owens (Scarlets), Rhys Gill (Saracens), Luke Charteris (Newport Gwent Dragons), Sam Warburton (Blues), Mike Phillips (Ospreys), Andrew Bishop (Ospreys) , Tom Shanklin (Blues).
France:Clement Poitrenaud (Toulouse); Julien Malzieu (Clermont), Mathieu Bastareaud (Stade Francais), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), Alexis Palisson (Brive); Francois Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), Morgan Parra (Clermont Auvergne); Thomas Domingo (Clermont Auvergne), William Servat (Toulouse), Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), Lionel Nallet (Racing-Metro), Julien Pierre (Clermont Auvergne), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse, capt), Julien Bonnaire (Clermont Auvergne), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz).
Replacements:Dimitri Szarzewski (Stade Francais), Jean-Baptiste Poux (Toulouse), Sebastien Chabal (Racing-Metro), Alexandre Lapandry (Clermont Auvergne), Frederic Michalak (Toulouse), David Marty (Perpignan), Marc Andreu (Castres).
We'll be at the game with all the build up and coverage of the game itself from Six o'clock
