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David Gérard face à son ancienne équipe

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Samedi 17 février à 16h30 (heure locale), c’est le match au sommet à Bucarest entre la Roumanie et le Portugal. Le vainqueur terminera premier de la poule B du Rugby Europe Championship.

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Le Portugal a perdu ses cinq derniers déplacements en Roumanie, depuis sa victoire 22-21 à Bucarest en mars 2009, mais il a toutes les chances d’inverser la tendance, surtout s’il mène à la pause. Lors des deux premiers tours, les Os Lobos ont marqué deux tiers de leurs points en première période des matchs et n’ont pas concédé le moindre point en seconde mi-temps.

Les trois dernières rencontres ont toutes été marquées par des scores élevés, avec un total moyen de 59 points. Les deux équipes ayant l’intention de jouer un rugby offensif, à en juger par le nombre de franchissements, de offloads et de mètres parcourus, ce match pourrait en être un nouvel exemple.

Outre l’avantage du terrain, la Roumanie est entraînée par l’ancien sélectionneur adjoint du Portugal, David Gérard ; il a pris ses fonctions après la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023.

En ce qui concerne le classement mondial World Rugby, une victoire n’entraînerait pas nécessairement une progression pour l’une ou l’autre équipe, car les permutations dépendront du résultat du premier match du week-end – Géorgie contre Espagne à Tbilissi.

Le Portugal passera devant la Géorgie et se hissera à la 15e place en cas de victoire, mais seulement si les Lelos s’inclinent à domicile face à l’Espagne pour la première fois.

Les Os Lobos se rapprocheront de leur meilleur classement de tous les temps, à savoir la 13e position, s’ils gagnent par plus de 15 points à Bucarest et que la Géorgie s’incline.

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La Roumanie remplacera l’Espagne au 19e rang si elle bat le Portugal et si les Leones ne reviennent pas de Tbilissi avec une victoire.

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TT 1 hour ago
'No, it’s not, that’s the truth' - Andy Farrell rubbishes Ireland subplot

ABs by 4……


IF

The Razor gang has given the AB’s a game plan A, B, C & etc (unlike so many AB games since 2016). &


IF

AB’s play 80+ minutes. &


IF

ABs do their individual & team jobs error free (‘ish)  (unlike so many AB team since 2016). &


IF

All the ‘critical V Ireland’ AB form mobile forwards stay on field for the 80min S.Barrett, Sititi, Savea, and Vaa’i swap with Cane when he tires & Tuipulotu comes on. Finau back up. &


IF

The 10's get a better ‘cunning game plan’ than BB, ie his kicky, kicky, kicky, kicky, kicky, kicky, kicky, ETC! (& MacK does have a better game plan). &


IF

Aumua can throw to lineouts . &


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The AB’s can remember their lineout calls (unlike too many V England games 1, 2 & 3). &


IF

Williams can be coached to stop being sucked into experienced tactics to drop him to the ground. &


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The AB coaches, teach all ABs some ‘soccer like’ drama queen fouling acting skills to make clear to the ref 1 of the most common Irish tactics ie obstruction by ‘stray’ decoy attackers around contact zone (tackle, ruck, maul). &


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The ABs have their arm out away if not tackling any, again, decoy attackers  (or defenders) that run into them to try milk penalties as England did (eg penalty  against  Cane the worst). &


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S.Barrett can change & captain with assertiveness & presence to even be noticed by the ref (way to passive). &


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There's no food poisoning.

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JW 1 hour ago
How can Scott Robertson revive the All Blacks’ playmaking ‘triple threat’?

HAHA don't ask me that! You tell me, if McMillian was the AB coach would he be selecting Dmac over Mo'unga!?!


Look, Dmac is clearly first choice. Razor said BB was a selection "just for this game", Dmac was always leading the two big ones. They rotated BB and Mounga the same way in 22.


Firstly, I'm a fan of BB when he's not gun shy. Do I think he's a first five? Of course not, he can hardly pass the ball 5 meters. Do I think he's likely to play again after being concussed? No, end of discussion.


Do I hate Mo'unga? No, of course not. He was the only reason we got within cooee of SA, him finding his footing at International level was their main reason for success. Do I think that resulted in him being a game orchestra or having played well in black the years prior to that? Of course not. Maybe you were just on the end of the better AB performances fran, outside of those games I'd suggest he wasn't as influential as you think. He has a good kicking game for sure, but it's certainly not up there with Carter or even some current 10s, and it's certainly not much better than DMac's (understand you own opinion still won't say that) despite him having a lot more development and experience.


He would obviously get a great opportunity from Razor if he came back, and DMac would possibly find he can be a good fullback or bench player under Razors guidance, but if you're wrong and Dmac actually performed better than Richie running the show, then he'll having Damien as his 10 come RWC time.


TLDR, JWH is a Cantab, Richie is one of my favourite players, we just think you've got the wrong context in this article and I think you're way off the mark on Richies strengths.

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