mathieu bastareaud and thierry dusautoir's imposing frames may not have delivered for france this six nations but they made the day of some young stars of the future on wednesday france have just one win from their three this tournament but will be looking to turn that around in rome when they take on italy, one of the two team's behind them on the table before they got down to business on wednesday with their preparations ahead of their clash with italy, bastareaud, dusautoir and co showed their squad remains in good spirits with a pre training session with local children in marcoussis kids pile onto powerful france centre mathieu bastareaud during a training session in marcoussis  bastareaud play acts as the young stars of the future attempt to bring him down during a pre training session  france's no 8 damien chouly joins the ruck as les bleus have some fun before getting down to business  france captain thierry dusautoir is all smiles as he towers over these youngsters  flanker dusautoir, finding some space among the children, will be hoping his side bounce back in italy  les bleus enjoyed a jovial run with young players at their training base just south of paris, which included kids struggling to bring down massive centre bastareaud and dusautoir appearing to enjoy his customary role of towering over all even more than usual once the fun was over though philippe saint andre was laying down the law as they prepared for their visit to rome on sunday where they'll be keen to add to their solitary win of the tournament france, who are fourth behind ireland, wales and england, have been far from convincing so far this campaign, accounting only for scotland 15 8 in their opening match with losses back to back against ireland and wales   both by just seven points   they'll be eager to give fans a glimpse of the potential their coach is convinced they have at their disposal france's prop nicolas mas spins a pass to his left during a jovial training run on wednesday  dusautoir smiles as the youngsters line up to shake his hand after their light hearted run  closer to their size was france scrum half sebastien tillous borde, who was recalled for the wales loss  they will be expected to come away from stadio olimpico with maximum points, but their last two trips to rome have ended in disappointment for france after venting following the wales defeat, saint andre put his support behind his players this week, saying he had 'faith' in them to turn things around in italy 'the team has a lot of potential,' he said 'over the last two and half years we've learned a lot i have a group of professionals, and a good team, but they need to maximise their potential 'saturday (against wales), we were only at 70 80 per cent as a coach, but also as a lover of rugby, i expect a lot more from this team i have faith in this squad 'they have the right values, and they are doing well as a squad they need to do more on the pitch, as a team and individually they need to take the initiative 'but honestly, if we didn't believe in them, we'd have changed lots of players on sunday in italy i expect a reaction because we have a squad with values and they will show it on sunday' don't go above the horizontal! france's lock yohann maestri tackles a young players without the ball  down to business, prop nicolas mas charges forward as training gets serious south of paris  dusautoir (left) and france head coach philippe saint andre speak on the training pitch in marcoussis  france show  a united front as they gather ahead of their trip to rome to take on italy  they'll be doing it without winger sofiane guitoune, who's been ruled out with a hamstring injury picked up for bordeaux begles in their defeat by stade francais at the weekend it's a blow to guitoune who got his first start in this six nations against wales he'll be replaced by racing metro's marc andreu 'disappointed to leave the team but a bit bothered by my hamstring which prevents me from being 100% supporting the team with all my heart,' guitoune said on twitter
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france go to rome to face italy in the rbs six nations on sunday  on wednesday, their training included a run with local children  mathieu bastareaud and thierry dusautoir among the stars to join in  france and italy each have one win each, both against scotland 