Heineken Cup winner Yannick Jauzion has been ruled out of France's summer internationals after picking up an elbow injury in Stade Toulousain's weekend win over Biarritz.

The 31-year-old, capped 68 times by France, will be replaced by Florian Fritz, his centre partner at Stade Toulousain for the games against South Africa and Argentina.

Fritz, 26, is currently in England ahead of this weekend's non-cap international against the Barbarians and will now hope to add to his 17 appearances for 'Les Bleus'.

His call up comes just days after helping Toulouse to their record fourth Heineken Cup triumph, with the centre playing an integral role as he kicked one long range penalty and also slotted an opportunistic drop-goal while his side were temporarily down to 14 men.

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Back in Toulouse the victory hangovers are just about subsiding, but head coach Guy Noves has already turned his attention to next season's campaign, specifically with a back-room shake up following confirmation that backs coach Philippe Rouge-Thomas will leave the club this summer.

Rouge-Thomas departs after a successful decade at the club - he joined in 2000 - during which he helped the team to two French titles and three Heineken Cup triumphs.

Speculation is now rife that recently retired scrum-half/fly-half Jean Baptiste Elissalde will succeed Rouge-Thomas after the former announced on Sunday that he had finished his illustrious playing career.

Stade Toulousain have kept quiet so far, merely saying that an announcement will follow within 10 days, which just happens to be when Elissalde returns from holiday.

Elissalde's erstwhile colleague Frédéric Michalak, meanwhile, has been making the most of his injury-enforced absence of late and is set to star in a film - about a former rugby player who becomes a successful entrepreneur.

Khoder Nasser, the agent of Toulon's coveted centre Sonny Bill Williams, is back in New Zealand to hold talks with All Blacks coach Graham Henry and potential club suitors for his client.

The in-demand former rugby league international has been offered a lucrative four-year deal by Toulon, but is weighing up the option of returning to New Zealand to try and force his way into the All Blacks' World Cup squad.

The NZRU has already made Williams a contract offer and Nasser is set to meet representatives from the Crusaders later this week.

"He loves Toulon," Nasser told the Sydney Morning Herald. "But we are talking about the No 1 entity in world rugby, the New Zealand Rugby Union and the All Blacks, and I'm quite flattered to be invited," he added.

Henry admitted there had already been "communication" and that he was hopeful of tempting Williams to stay. "If it comes down to money we might get second. But if it comes down to the desire to play for his country... that might clinch it," Henry told the SMH.

One Kiwi who has definitely played his last game for Toulon is former coach Tana Umaga. The All Black legend strapped on his boots again for the last couple of months, but his primary job this season had been as the club's backs coach. Toulon will not, however, look to bring in a replacement, with current head coach Philippe Saint-André stepping into the breach instead.

Over in Montpellier the Fabien Galthié love-in appears to be in full swing after the former Stade Francais head coach was confirmed as the new boss of the Hérault side.

Recently arrived forwards coach Eric Béchu said he was delighted by Galthié's appointment. "I am very excited because Fabien is a man who has ideas, he is a man of experience and has nurtured many cultures of rugby. His arrival will be very beneficial to Montpellier and myself," he added.

Club captain Fulgence Ouedraogo was equally effusive. "It's a very good thing for the club. He should be able to bring his experience and professionalism," said the French flanker.