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Cape Town SVNS : les Bleus écrasent les Kiwis et rejoignent les demi-finales

Il y a 109 jours

Liam Delamare marque un essai lors du match de rugby à VII de la poule D des HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series entre la Nouvelle-Zélande et la France au Cape Town Stadium, le 7 décembre 2024. (Photo by Rodger Bosch / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Les Bleus se sont offert un succès de prestige sur la Nouvelle-Zélande et affronteront dimanche les Fidji en demi-finales du tournoi du Cap.

Impressionnante équipe de France. Larges vainqueurs plus tôt dans la journée des États-Unis, huit essais à la clé, les Bleus ont remis ça contre une équipe d’un tout autre acabit.

Ils ont littéralement écrasé la Nouvelle-Zélande dans le deuxième match de poule, 45-17 et sept essais à la clé, et sont les premiers invités pour les demi-finales de l’étape sud-africaine du circuit de Sevens.

Portée par un Antoine Zegdhar décisif plusieurs fois sans même marquer un seul essai, l’équipe de France avait déjà marqué quatre essais dans les cinq premières minutes de jeu.

LE MAGICIEN Antoine Zeghdar 🔥
Le Castrais dépose une chistera dans les bras de Stephen Parez 👏#HSBCSVNSCPT pic.twitter.com/YYxBSbY8MC
— RugbyPass FR 🇫🇷 (@RugbyPass_FR) December 7, 2024

Surtout, il y a eu de tout : de la technique avec la passe après contact de Zeghdar pour Stephen Parez (1re), de la vitesse avec Célian Pouzelgues sur l’aile (3e), de la puissance et des appuis avec Liam Delamare (5e), de la filouterie avec Victor Hannoun…

Ajoutez à cela six coups de pied de transformation sur sept, et vous obtenez une performance qui fait saliver en vue de la demi-finale ce dimanche face aux Fidji, vainqueurs du tournoi d’ouverture Dubaï la semaine dernière.

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Ed the Duck 34 minutes ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Touring NZ is a golden opportunity for every one of the French players that take the field to nail themselves into the squad. What better opportunity is there than to stand out for all the right reasons than a Test match in NZ? Any that manage to achieve that will only enhance the pool of talent available for ‘27.

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Ed the Duck 37 minutes ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

NZR knew exactly when the Top14 final was when they signed the tour contract.

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CN 39 minutes ago

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Lovely, lovely player. At her peak she was dynamic and difficult and always played with a smile. You got the feeling that as well as her teammates the opposition also respected her.

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Ed the Duck 40 minutes ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Partially correct. NZ needs to get on with being the lead in developing the Pacific 6N and monetising Japan - and developing their competitiveness. That will enable all the financial support you mention.

As for France, it’s not about “caring”, it’s about money and the club owners provide their money to drive their club agenda. Period. French rugby is a beast and your JIFF point is well made but SA is a beast also that’s now awake and England is a sleeping beast that is financially stricken. SA will make up a 7N and that will drive all 3 to new levels. The Irish, Scottish and welsh clubs are all union owned and will continue to struggle keeping up but the 7N revenue boost will help, as the SA involvement in the URC is doing currently.

EPL is entirely different, football has followed its own path in allowing the league to detach and is an extreme example of what happens when the clubs are allowed to call the shots across the board. Not a path that rugby will follow fortunately.

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CN 43 minutes ago

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I’m not sure many agree with you on this one, Rugby Pass made her their player of the match last week and the comments on the BBC website, although mixed, were lauding her attributes. Her running lines are really good and incisive, very good passing range and her defence is better than ok. I do like her as an option and she would probably go to the RWC as a specialist FB and understudy. EK struggled against Canada at WXV because they doubled up on her every time and took away her space, why not give teams something different to defend?

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DH 47 minutes ago

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Kinghorn and Willis should join after the Top14 final. O Farrell has been average all year and RC92 wants rid of him, he has no pace and is too dominant a character (like Ford) without the skills to back it up. Take the two Finns and Blair Kinghorn and all will be good.

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Ed the Duck 51 minutes ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Started well but wobbled when you mentioned Irish club money (it’s all union owned with state help) and lost it completely talking about offshore accounts.

That said, NZ have been phenomenally good at what they’ve done but it’s become a lot more difficult to be out in front and that isn’t going to change for them. They need to focus on the pacific 6N and monetise Japan but SA are the powerhouse and will stay that way when they monetise their certain involvement in a 7N comp, which will also boost English and French resources!

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Ed the Duck 57 minutes ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

No I don’t. Point me to any discontent from the French about this? Sure the players have understandably said they’d love to go but that’s the sum total of it on the NH side. Everyone understands the decision making dynamic and the factors driving it. As you’ve already conceded above, NZR were also aware of exactly what was coming.

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BC 58 minutes ago

Morgane Bourgeois’ Women's Six Nations notebook: The first edition

Interesting comment from Pauline Bourdon that France would have lost that match at WXV1. Does that mean that France have recovered their mojo and are once again potential worldbeaters?

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Ed the Duck 1 hour ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Cooperation would be an interesting description of that relationship, the power sits with the money and that’s the club owners.