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Baptiste Serin forfait pour le Tournoi

Toulon's French scrum-half Baptiste Serin (2R) is helped off the field by Protection Civile personnel after being injured during the European Champions Cup rugby union match between Rugby Club Toulonnais (Toulon) and the Exeter Chief's at the Stade Mayol in Toulon, south-eastern France on December 9, 2023. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Le sélectionneur de l’équipe de France, Fabien Galthié, a reçu un coup dur pour trouver un remplaçant à Antoine Dupont pour le Tournoi des Six Nations. Toulon a en effet annoncé mardi 12 décembre que le demi de mêlée Baptiste Serin sera indisponible pour un minimum de quatre mois, ce qui l’exclut de fait du Tournoi.

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C’est surtout un coup dur pour le demi de mêlée toulonnais qui voyait cette année une chance de reprendre place au sein du XV de France.

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Le joueur de 29 ans n’a tenu que quelques minutes lors de la défaite 19-18 de Toulon face aux Exeter Chiefs au Stade Mayol samedi 9 décembre dans le cadre de l’Investec Champions Cup, après être entré en seconde période. Il a quitté le terrain avec le bras droit en écharpe et les triples champions d’Europe ont depuis confirmé qu’il s’était disloqué l’épaule et qu’il serait opéré la semaine prochaine.

« Il sera absent pour une période minimale de 4 mois à la suite de cette opération », a indiqué le club dans un communiqué.

Antoine Dupont, le capitaine de l’équipe de France, ayant déjà confirmé qu’il manquerait le Tournoi des Six Nations pour se consacrer pleinement au rugby à sept afin de représenter la France aux Jeux olympiques de Paris l’année prochaine, une bataille s’est engagée pour savoir qui porterait le maillot bleu du numéro 9.

Maxime Lucu, l’éternel recours

Si Maxime Lucu, de l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles, est le favori pour prendre la relève, comme il l’a été lors de la Coupe du monde, Serin était également candidat. Galthié commence à s’inquiéter de voir ses réserves de demi de mêlée s’amenuiser.

A court terme, Toulon sera privé du demi de mêlée aux 44 sélections pour le reste des phases de poule de sa campagne européenne, à commencer par le déplacement au Franklin’s Gardens vendredi 15 décembre pour y affronter les Northampton Saints.

De plus, il manquera la visite du Munster et le déplacement en Écosse pour affronter les Glasgow Warriors en janvier, où Toulon doit désormais se battre après avoir perdu son premier match.

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JW 20 minutes ago
New Zealanders may not understand, but in France Test rugby is the 'B movie'

But he was wrong, he had to take back what he said. But maybe this only happened because he came out and was honest with his initial plans?


He’s simply in a position where he should be far more professional.


I don’t really follow much media, especially SM, but again, I’ve not seen anyone complaining. Plenty of ridicule and pointing out things like it being disrespectful to the game, but as far as the English language goes, that’s not complaining. Nick Bishop for instance hasn’t been complaining, he’s simply saying Galthie made a bad decision for France’s prospects (which when the common reply is ‘thats how it is’).


Complaining would be views expressing that the FFR should have put the tour back a week so that all T14 finalists could attend. Complaining would be saying they’ve been robbed of seeing the worlds best stars. Complaining would be saying players can simply take extra weeks off from T14. I’ve only seen advice and suggestions that these are things France need to look-at-for-the-future.


Basically I tried to communicate with French fans because they don’t understand what’s being communicated. ALL reactions I have seen shared here by French supports have all seemed way over the top compared what I’ve seen expressed about this tour.

the players are expected to play in too many matches, for too many minutes, and need more rest and recovery time.

This is the message I have been sharing. So something needs to happen, whether thats France pull out of more Internationals or rest players from more domestic games, who knows, but I also don’t think what they have now is working. It’s obviously much better than 3-4 years ago, but they appear to want to work even harder at it like you say. Personally I’ve only seen LNR be reasonable, I hear much less of their other internationals being denied/influenced not to play, so I imagine that they will give even further (as I can’t really see France pulling out the other international windows as well).

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JW 1 hour ago
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Cameron Woki picked at the base of a ruck and jumped/dived over. That would clearly now be penalised.

But the Sheehan try is different to my eye. It starts from a tap penalty, he drives forward, the two WB defenders go low for a tackle in the assumption Sheehan will go to ground. He does not, but seeing the hole now left dives through it. In this case surely there is zero danger there.

World Rugby’s terminology/interpretation recently (shared again after this) is that it’s ok to hurdle/dive (that includes over, say a ruck, which we have seen this many times even in this years SR) to score a try, but it’s not (OK) to avoid a tackle. I can’t remember the one you describe (which may have been where their clarification came from) but that would sound OK. Sheehan definitely was playing the rope-a-dope and dived to avoid being tackled (can’t call it tackled really, just blocked/stopped lol), so shouldn’t have been awarded (I wasn’t aware of this last definition so just thought it was a very smart move). Was it premeditated? I’m not sure, but he could definitely have collected someones head if that was the case. And I guess even if he saw the space, I guess it’s not something they can allow as others might try it and get it terribly wrong?


Well summed up Miz. I have been thinking the whole situation of events that lead to this type of sneaky move is the problem, particularly as it relates to the difficulty and effort defenders now go to stop such situations (like say Slippers try), where players go extremely low to drive from meters out (and in most cases plays just trying to dive under). It’s also ugly business seeing attempt after attempt to go in under the tacklers, especially with them not really being able to perform a ‘tackle’ at all. I would simply give the defenders their goal line. All they need is some part of the body on or behind, and this will stop the play (being the fuel to this fire) from being attempted I reckon.

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