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Joe Schmidt favori pour entraîner l’Australie

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Rugby Australia (RA) s’apprête à franchir une première étape importante dans le recrutement du prochain sélectionneur des Wallabies en nommant son nouveau responsable de la haute performance.

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Selon le Sydney Morning Herald, la fédération australienne de rugby s’apprête en effet à recruter Peter Horne à ce poste, l’accord étant sur le point d’être finalisé.

« Les dernières négociations sont encore en cours, mais une annonce devrait être faite au cours de la semaine prochaine », indique le journal.

« Le recrutement de Horne est considéré comme un bon signe pour le rugby australien, compte tenu de sa grande expérience dans la gestion de programmes de haute performance dans le domaine du rugby depuis près de 20 ans. »

Les atouts de Peter Horne

Après une année noire au cours de laquelle l’Australie a été éliminée dès la phase de poule de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023 pour la première fois de son histoire, Rugby Australia cherche désormais à mettre en place des personnes capables de faire avancer l’organisation et Horne pourrait jouer un rôle important à cet égard.

Il travaille avec World Rugby depuis 2015, d’abord en tant que manager général de la haute performance avant de devenir directeur de la haute performance en 2021.

Horne a contribué à façonner les compétitions, les structures de haute performance et les parcours dans les pays en développement au cours de son mandat au sein de World Rugby. Son engagement vis à vis des nations émergentes du rugby a ainsi permis d’intégrer les Fiji Drua et les Moana Pasifika au Super Rugby, et a contribué aux récents succès du Chili, des Fidji, de la Géorgie et du Portugal lors de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby.

Le directeur de la performance de l’Irish Rugby Football Union, David Nucifora, a également été approché, mais il n’était pas intéressé par ce poste.

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Néanmoins, Nucifora quittera l’IRFU en 2024 pour retourner en Australie et, selon le SMH, il pourrait devenir consultant de la fédération australienne.

Le terrain préparé pour Joe Schmidt ?

L’une des nouvelles fonctions de Peter Horne sera de contribuer à la désignation du successeur d’Eddie Jones au poste de sélectionneur des Wallabies.

Il serait proche de Joe Schmidt depuis leur passage à World Rugby lorsque celui-ci était directeur du rugby et de la haute performance jusqu’en 2021. Par conséquent, le Néo-Zélandais pourrait devenir l’un des principaux candidats à la succession d’Eddie Jones.

De même, Schmidt a travaillé au côté de Nucifora pendant cinq ans en Irlande, ce qui renforcera les liens si l’ancien entraîneur des Brumbies rejoint Rugby Australia en tant que consultant.

Le palmarès de Schmidt

Schmidt a entraîné l’Irlande entre 2014 et 2019, les aidant à remporter trois Tournois des Six Nations et un Grand Chelem.

Bien qu’ils aient finalement échoué au stade des quarts de finale lors de deux Coupes du Monde de Rugby, l’homme de 58 ans a contribué à améliorer les résultats du pays.

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L’Irlande a battu les All Blacks pour la première fois de son histoire pendant son mandat, puis a réitéré cet exploit lors de la série de fin d’année 2018.

Après son départ du poste de sélectionneur de l’Irlande, il a rejoint World Rugby avant de devenir « sélectionneur indépendant » des All Blacks en 2022, avant de prendre en charge l’attaque, poste qu’il a occupé jusqu’à la fin de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023.

Avec l’objectif de boucler le dossier avant Noël, Rugby Australia prévoit que le nouveau directeur de la haute performance jouera un rôle central dans le remodelage du paysage du rugby en Australie. La collaboration potentielle entre Peter Horne et Joe Schmidt pourrait marquer le début d’une nouvelle ère pour le rugby australien, avec la promesse de performances accrues et d’un sens aigu de la stratégie sur la scène internationale.

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Flankly 47 minutes ago
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Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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Nickers 57 minutes ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

Very poor understanding of what's going on and 0 ability to read. When I say playing behind the gain line you take this to mean all off-loads and site times we are playing in front of the gain line???


Every time we play a lot of rugby behind the gain line (for clarity, meaning trying to build an attack and use width without front foot ball 5m+ behind the most recent breakdown) we go backwards and turn the ball over in some way. Every time a player is tackled behind the most recent breakdown you need more and more people to clear out because your forwards have to go back around the corner, whereas opposition players can keep moving forward. Eventually you run out of either players to clear out or players to pass to and the result in a big net loss of territory and often a turnover. You may have witnessed that 20+ times in the game against England. This is a particularly dumb idea inside your own 40m which is where, for some reason, we are most likely to employ it.


The very best ABs teams never built an identity around attacking from poor positions. The DC era team was known for being the team that kicked the most. To engineer field position and apply pressure, and create broken play to counter attack. This current team is not differentiating between when a defence has lost it's structure and there are opportunities, and when they are completely set and there is nothing on. The reason they are going for 30 minute + periods in every game without scoring a single point, even against Japan and a poor Australian team, is because they are playing most of their rugby on the back foot in the wrong half.

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Nickers 1 hour ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

I thought we made a lot of progress against that type of defence by the WC last year. Lots of direct running and punching holes rather than using width. Against that type of defence I think you have to be looking to kick on first phase when you have front foot ball which we did relatively successfully. We are playing a lot of rugby behind the gain line at the moment. They are looking for those little interchanges for soft shoulders and fast ball or off loads but it regularly turns into them battering away with slow ball and going backwards, then putting in a very rushed kick under huge pressure.


JB brought that dimension when he first moved into 12 a couple of years ago but he's definitely not been at his best this year. I don't know if it is because he is being asked to play a narrow role, or carrying a niggle or two, but he does not look confident to me. He had that clean break on the weekend and stood there like he was a prop who found himself in open space and didn't know what to do with the ball. He is still a good first phase ball carrier though, they use him a lot off the line out to set up fast clean ball, but I don't think anyone is particularly clear on what they are supposed to do at that point. He was used really successfully as a second playmaker last year but I don't think he's been at that role once this year. He is a triple threat player but playing a very 1 dimensional role at the moment. He and Reiko have been absolutely rock solid on defence which is why I don't think there will be too much experimentation or changes there.

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