One effect of the row might be to throw some light on the process.  If you have an open tender with a scoring process, then the scores have to match the criteria and one reason the French are so very cross is that this was not the case.
On French radio there is already talk of bribes.  And Bernard Laporte (aka the mad peanut) who kicked the French rugby establishment where it hurts by being elected president of the federation, is not one to go quietly.