Rabier ready to lead France in a new era

The 25-year-old skipper led France to a World Cup semi-final where they were out-classed by New Zealand 45-7. France eventually finished fourth after a final round loss to Australia.The France squad for 2011 features only

See below for an English and French version of her Q&A.

"Overall we were pretty satisfied with how the squad performed during this World Cup. Of course at the end there was disappointment with how we finished because the final was well within reach."

"After the World Cup, we have had a lot of departures within the group so we have to rebuild some things with the newcomers. We will certainly miss some of our benchmark player but the new additions will bring us freshness and they will join the group with with a lot of desire."

"We had two sessions at the end of 2010 and then following testing we had a physical fitness programme. We've trained hard."

"It is hard to say as I do not yet know the make-up of the England team following the World Cup. I think every team is in a rebuilding phase."

"We want to build a solid foundation for the future and then ramp up with every game in this competition - of course we want to win every game.We are above all competitors and we play every game looking to win."

Dans l'ensemble plutt satisfaite de la performance du groupe lors de cette coupe du monde. Bien sur que nous avons un peu d'amertume de finir au pied du podium car cette petite finale tait notre porte.

Aprs la coupe du monde, nous avons des dparts au sein du groupe. Il va donc falloir reconstruire certaines choses avec les nouvelles venues. On va certainement manquer de repres mais les petites nouvelles vont nous apporter de la fracheur et vont intgrer le groupe avec les crocs.

Nous avons eu deux stages de dtection an fin d'anne 2010 et puis suite aux tests physiques nous avons eu un programme de prparation physique.

Je ne connais pas encore l'effectif de l'quipe d'Angleterre par rapport la RWC. Elles ont certainement eu galement des dparts en retraite donc je pense que chaque quipe est sur une phase de reconstruction.

Construire des bases solides pour prparer l'avenir et puis monter en puissance de match en match lors de cette comptition sans oublier de gagner bien sur.Nous sommes avant tout des comptitrices et nous jouons en donnant le meilleur de nous dans le but de gagner.