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Juste avant les JO, la France avait réservé son dernier entraînement au Canada

Opposition entre les équipes féminines de rugby à 7 de la France et du Canada à Marcoussis le mercredi 17 juillet 2024. Photo : Willy Billiard

A dix jours du coup d’envoi du tournoi olympique, France et Canada se retrouvaient à Marcoussis pour un entraînement commun.

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La scène remonte au mercredi 17 juillet au centre national du rugby à Marcoussis. Sous un gros soleil, la France a convié l’équipe du Canada de Jack Hanratty à un ultime entraînement en commun. Le soir même le groupe France se séparera et se retrouvera au début de la semaine suivante avant de faire son entrée dans le village olympique.

Pour le coach David Courteix et les joueuses, cette ultime confrontation reste intense et très utile.

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« Ça ressemble aux rencontres que l’on fait avant. Il y a suffisamment d’engagement pour que ça donne du sens à ce qu’on fait », confie alors David Courteix à RugbyPass. « J’ai bien aimé les attitudes, j’ai bien aimé ce que j’ai vu. Quand on fait montre de maîtrise au rugby c’est quand même un signe. La maîtrise s’exprime par l’adaptation. »

A ce moment-là, personne ne sait encore avec certitude que les deux équipes se retrouveront quelques jours plus tard au Stade de France en quart de finale du tournoi olympique de Paris 2024. Un match couperet par excellence qui poursuivra tout rêve olympique ou y mettra fin de manière cruelle.

Pour se qualifier pour cette rencontre, Séraphine Okemba a planté quatre essais aux Américaines, devenant la troisième joueuse à inscrire quatre essais lors d’un match à Paris 2024, après l’Australienne Maddison Levi et la Néo-Zélandaise Michaela Blyde.

« Ce qui est bien avec le Canada c’est que c’est une équipe qui sait nous mettre en difficulté », répondait-elle à RugbyPass après un entraînement qui ne se voulait pas à haute intensité mais qui restait très physique quand même.

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« On reste dans l’optique d’un entrainement, comme ça on voit tous les petits repères. Là, c’est gagner tout ce qu’on peut gagner : de la confiance, quelques petits repères. »

Cette ultime confrontation a posé les bases du futur quart de finale prévu à 22h le lundi 29 juillet.

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JW 2 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

In another recent article I tried to argue for a few key concept changes for EPCR which I think could light the game up in the North.


First, I can't remember who pointed out the obvious elephant in the room (a SA'n poster?), it's a terrible time to play rugby in the NH, and especially your pinnacle tournament. It's been terrible watching with seemingly all the games I wanted to watch being in the dark, hardly able to see what was going on. The Aviva was the only stadium I saw that had lights that could handle the miserable rain. If the global appeal is there, they could do a lot better having day games.


They other primary idea I thuoght would benefit EPCR most, was more content. The Prem could do with it and the Top14 could do with something more important than their own league, so they aren't under so much pressure to sell games. The quality over quantity approach.


Trim it down to two 16 team EPCR competitions, and introduce a third for playing amongst the T2 sides, or the bottom clubs in each league should simply be working on being better during the EPCR.


Champions Cup is made up of league best 15 teams, + 1, the Challenge Cup winner. Without a reason not to, I'd distribute it evenly based on each leauge, dividing into thirds and rounded up, 6 URC 5 Top14 4 English. Each winner (all four) is #1 rank and I'd have a seeding round or two for the other 12 to determine their own brackets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I'd then hold a 6 game pool, home and away, with consecutive of each for those games that involve SA'n teams. Preferrably I'd have a regional thing were all SA'n teams were in the same pool but that's a bit complex for this simple idea.


That pool round further finalises the seeding for knockout round of 16. So #1 pool has essentially duked it out for finals seeding already (better venue planning), and to see who they go up against 16, 15,etc etc. Actually I think I might prefer a single pool round for seeding, and introduce the home and away for Ro16, quarters, and semis (stuffs up venue hire). General idea to produce the most competitive matches possible until the random knockout phase, and fix the random lottery of which two teams get ranked higher after pool play, and also keep the system identical for the Challenge Cup so everthing is succinct. Top T2 side promoted from last year to make 16 in Challenge Cup

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JW 8 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).

Number Of Clubs:

1526

Registered+Unregistered Players:

651146

Number of Referees:

3460

Pre-teen Male Players:

320842

Pre-teen Female Player:

4522

Teen Male Player:

199213

Teen Female Player:

4906

Senior Male Player:

113174

Senior Female Player:

8489

Total Male Player:

633229

Total Female Player:

17917


So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.

The total number of clubs remains consistent, with a marginal increase of 1% from 1,161 to 1,167. 8.1.

A comparative analysis of verified data for 2022 and 2023 highlights a marginal decline of 1% in the number of female players, declining from 6,801 to 6,723. Additionally, the total number of players demonstrates an 8% decrease, dropping from 96,172 to 88,828.

So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).


https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.


The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.


In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.

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