Laporte summoned a 23-man group to Frances official training centre near Paris to take part in a series of fitness tests ahead of the November games against Australia, Canada, Tonga and South Africa.

Nicolas Brusque and Thibault Privat were both missing through injury but Pieter De Villiers, Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, Yannick Jauzion, Cedric Heymans, Damien Traille and Dimitri Yachvili, who all re-start Top 14 action with their respective clubs this weekend, were absent.

''I am very irritated because we were all waiting for them but out of the 23 called up six are not there because they want to save themselves for this weekend,'' said Laporte to French radio Radio-Sud.

''Those tests are important to us and those who don't take them will not be selected for November.

''We are not going to spend our time making 4000 phone calls and we will establish a simple rule: Those who don't turn up for the tests will not play with the national team.''

A second 25-man group is set to be called up at the start of September for another series of tests.

France will take on Australia on November 5 in Marseille, Canada on the 12th in Nantes, Tonga on the 19th in Toulouse and finally South Africa a week later at the Stade de France.