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Wales prop Sisilia Tuipulotu was treated for a enarthrosis wounded during the decision to England| Venue: Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Date: Sunday, 23 April Kick-off: 15:15 BST |
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Wales caput manager Ioan Cunningham has made 7 changes for Sunday's Six Nations crippled against France successful Grenoble.
Prop Abbey Constable becomes the 3rd caller Wales headdress during this Six Nations campaign, portion flanker Kate Williams makes her archetypal start.
Constable is joined successful an each caller beforehand enactment by Carys Phillips and Cerys Hale.
Wing Carys Williams-Morris, centre Lleucu George and Ffion Lewis astatine scrum-half besides travel into the side.
Lewis replaces Keira Bevan who started the 59-3 decision by England portion Williams-Morris missed that crippled to play for the RAF.
George has recovered from wounded to regenerate Hannah Bluck astatine centre alongside skipper Hannah Jones.
Prop Sisilia Tuipulotu, who was subordinate of the lucifer successful Wales opening 2 victories, is amongst the replacements having been managing wounded concerns.
Her spot astatine tight-head goes to Hale, portion constable replaces Gwenllian Pyrs who drops to the seat on with hooker Kelsey Jones.
"Abbey Constable makes her debut and she has worked hard successful grooming passim this Six Nations run and we are each excited to spot however she performs," said Cunningham.
"She volition beryllium our 3rd caller headdress successful this tourney and, similar Kate Williams, it's an accidental to amusement what we person seen successful training."
Cunningham besides praised fly-half Elinor Snowsill, who volition triumph her 75th Wales cap.
"That is an accomplishment that should beryllium celebrated by everyone successful Welsh rugby. Snowy's acquisition and calmness astatine fly-half volition beryllium invaluable against France.
"France volition beryllium a large trial for us, they are 1 of the champion teams successful the satellite and we ever knew playing England and past playing France distant was going to beryllium a large challenge.
"But these are the tests we want, we are an ambitious squad and we request to cognize wherever we are and we person made nary concealed that we person to physique our spot successful extent up of the adjacent World Cup.
"We person reviewed the show against England and we proved we tin vie and proved we tin origin the champion successful the satellite problems, we conscionable person to bash it for longer."
France are unbeaten successful the tourney and similar England person been potent successful attack, moving successful 21 tries successful the archetypal 3 rounds.
Wales started the run brightly with 2 bonus-point wins from 2 earlier being connected the extremity of the sobering nine-try decision astatine location against England past weekend.
France were World Cup semi-finalists past November and are presently ranked 3rd successful the world.
They person won each but 1 of their past 14 meetings with Wales, their astir caller decision was astatine the Gnoll successful 2016.
While the statistic are not successful their favour, Cunningham said helium was "confident" of taking France connected up front.
"Our forwards person been fantabulous this campaign, I deliberation we person improved arsenic a guardant battalion arsenic good since the World Cup, truthful we are excited for it," helium told BBC Sport Wales.
"As soon arsenic they [France] get immoderate beforehand ft shot they are beauteous hard to stop, they play with speed, they tin spell done you arsenic good arsenic spell astir you, truthful our contacts and archetypal up hits are going to beryllium key."
More than 20,000 tickets person been sold truthful acold for the fixture astatine Stade des Alpes, thing Cunningham says his broadside volition relish aft playing astatine a sold-out Cardiff Arms Park past weekend.
"It is going to beryllium a large situation and a large occasion. The assemblage is going to beryllium good, truthful we are truly looking guardant to it," helium said.
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Wales: Courtney Keight; Lisa Neumann, Hannah Jones (capt), Lleucu George, Carys Williams- Morris; Elinor Snowsill, Ffion Lewis; Abbey Constable, Carys Phillips, Cerys Hale, Abbie Fleming, Georgia Evans, Bethan Lewis, Kate Williams, Sioned Harries.
Replacements: Kelsey Jones, Gwenllian Pyrs, Sisilia Tuipulotu, Bryonie King, Alex Callender, Keira Bevan, Robyn Wilkins, Niamh Terry.
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