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La réponse de Rieko Ioane à Johnny Sexton

Jonathan Sexton (Irlande) face à Rieko Ioane (Nouvelle-Zélande) lors du quart de finale de la Coupe du monde de rugby 2023 entre l'Irlande et la Nouvelle-Zélande au Stade de France à Paris, France. (Photo Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Johnny Sexton s’apprête à publier son autobiographie, ‘Obsessed : The Autobiography of Johnny Sexton’ dont The Sunday Times a dévoilé les bonnes feuilles le week-end dernier.

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On a déjà évoqué, sur RugbyPass, les relations tendues entre Sexton et un autre ouvreur irlandais de légende, Ronan O’Gara.

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Retraité depuis l’élimination de l’Irlande à la Coupe du Monde 2023, Sexton évoque également dans son livre le dernier match de sa carrière, le quart de finale perdu contre la Nouvelle-Zélande (24-28).

« Je suis incapable de revoir le quart de finale », écrit Sexton dans l’extrait. « Je ne pense pas que je le ferai un jour. Je n’en ai pas besoin. J’ai repassé dans ma tête chaque seconde, encore et encore. Ça se termine toujours de la même façon. »

Sur un ultime ballon gratté au sol par Sam Whitelock, et une immense déception pour les hommes en vert, une fois de plus sortis dès les quarts de finale d’un Mondial.

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Une fin amère pour Sexton, qui relate un échange entre lui et Rieko Ioane sitôt le coup de sifflet final.

« Après le coup de sifflet final de (l’arbitre Wayne) Barnes, il me dit : ‘Rate pas ton vol retour demain. Bonne retraite, sale c****rd’. C’est ça, la fameuse politique ‘No dickheads’ des All Blacks. Voilà leur humilité.

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« Je suis Ioane et je le traite de faux-cul. Ce n’est pas terrible de s’en prendre à l’un d’eux, juste après une défaite. Mais je ne pouvais pas laisser passer cela ».

Cette anecdote avait jusqu’à maintenant causé beaucoup de réactions, mais on attendait toujours celle du principal mis en cause.

Elle est arrivée, comme souvent, via les réseaux sociaux. Ioane a publié sur son compte Instagram une story sans texte et sans équivoque.

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Le trois-quarts des All Blacks, Rieko Ioane, a répondu à l'ancien capitaine de l'Irlande, Johnny Sexton, avec une story Instagram énigmatique. (capture Instagram @riekoioane_)
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Le joueur de 27 ans a partagé une photo de lui et Sexton prise le jour de ce fameux quart de finale, d’une carte de joker au-dessus de la tête du All Black, et d’un emoji représentant une maison en dessous du néo-retraité.

Le tout illustré par la chanson Zombie des Cranberries, qui était devenue l’hymne des supporteurs irlandais durant la Coupe du Monde, calée sur le début du refrain qui répète « In your head », « Dans ta tête ».

Les retrouvailles entre les deux équipes, même sans Sexton, promettent d’être explosives. Elles sont prévues pour le 8 novembre à l’Aviva Stadium de Dublin à l’occasion de la tournée d’automne de la Nouvelle-Zélande en Europe.

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Les All Blacks affronteront également le Japon, l’Angleterre, la France et l’Italie.

 

 

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JW 16 minutes 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 5 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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