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La famille Tuilagi en feu dans les rues de Bayonne

Manu, Posolo et Henry Tuilagi ont partagé un moment sympa dans les rues de Bayonne après la rencontre Aviron - USAP, samedi (capture d'écran x.com/assoboc).

On ne présente plus les Tuilagi. d’Henry à Posolo, en passant par Manu, Alesana ou encore Freddie, la famille Tuilagi a produit et continue de produire des joueurs uniques par cette combinaison de puissance brute, de vitesse et de skills.

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Mais si elle est désormais éparpillée aux quatre coins du monde au gré des opportunités rugbystiques, les traditions samoanes sont toujours fortement ancrées dans chacun d’eux.

On a encore pu en avoir un aperçu ce week-end à l’occasion de la première journée de Top 14. Pas sur les terrains, puisque la rencontre entre Manu le Bayonnais et Posolo le Catalan n’a pas eu lieu, la faute à une fracture à la main du trois-quarts centre subie juste avant la reprise, mais durant l’après-match.

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Dans une vidéo mise en ligne par l’association BOC, un groupe de supporteurs de l’Aviron Bayonnais, on peut voir une véritable moment de communion et de convivialité.

Le patriarche Henry (48 ans), international samoan et ancien joueur de l’USAP et de Leicester notamment, chante au rythme des tambours, torse nu et collier de fleurs autour du cou, tandis que son petit frère Manu, international anglais (33 ans, 60 sélections), et son fils Posolo, déjà cinq capes avec les Bleus à tout juste 20 ans, enchaînent quelques pas de danse en battant la mesure.

Le genre d’images et de moments qui donnent la banane et qui montrent que le rugby, malgré les turbulences traversées ces derniers temps, notamment en France, a encore de belles choses à partager.

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JW 50 minutes ago
How can Scott Robertson revive the All Blacks’ playmaking ‘triple threat’?

Love how you stoke up the fire with these slow burners Nick, great time to let the air into this one too coming into Jordies new home for a few months.


Razor (and possibly Cullen?) is the perfect coach to keep fueling Jordies own flame. Foster on the other hand has to be a people person because he's always trying to douse everyones due to his own lack of enterprise.


I didn't want to nark on the man but we still have Reiks waiting to be ignited as well. His own play when he first moved to center was full of threat and tact. He could cut in just as easily as swing out and had some great ball handling to put people away with. While we haven't seen much more of that since, I think he has at least been working hard on his defence and his books under Foster and Schmidt, and could turn into a Conrad (or even Nonu) one day. I'm not quite so sure Jordie has been making the same progress in the meantime.


I've been really happy with Jordies workons this year however, but that Final was a big learning curve and I've not really sure I've seen the calmness required to pull off Nonu type plays through his career so far. In fact he has often been the opposite and been a bit ropey when he was in more of a playmaker role at 15, I do think he has all the skills and desire to make these sorts of plays though, just having such a wide scope as a 'triple' threat put's a big demand on being able to read the game. So perhaps I might not go too much further than trying to use that big boot, and keeping it simple really. Like Nonu did.


I'm happy with all those 10 and 15 pictures myself, especially the ones where Jordan is playing more of a hand. He is someone who certainly could do with some sort of 'double' threat to help his line breaking ability and I certainly think he has some sort of innate skill to do the right thing. Sadly it's not going to happen in conjunction with Beaudie I don't think. This is going to be retirement. 2nd start back playing with his old courage (he actually did run the ball after all) and he's concussed again, not good.


Trouble is for this team, it could be a completely different 10, 12, 13. That shouldn't stop Razor from encouraging all the options the All Blacks have in those positions, right now. Also looking forward to Perofeta coming into fullback late instead of BB or Dmac going there.

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