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Les Bleus reçus à l'ambassade de France à Buenos Aires

Posolo Tuilagi, Baptiste Pesenti et Demba Bamba entourent Laurent Waksmann, conseiller élu des Français de l'étranger à l'ambassade de France en Argentine (photo DR).

L’équipe de France est bien arrivée en Argentine, et se remet tranquillement du décalage horaire (- 5h par rapport à la France) et du changement de climat, puisque l’hiver vient de commencer dans l’hémisphère sud, en attendant le premier match de sa tournée prévu le 6 juillet à Mendoza.

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Après un entraînement léger sur les installations du San Isidro Club, un club du nord de capitale, fief du rugby « porteño », les Bleus étaient attendus mercredi soir à l’ambassade de France.

Dans le quartier chic de Recoleta, non loin de leur hôtel, le squad et le staff français ont été reçus par Romain Nadal, ambassadeur de France, qui n’avait pas hésité à enfiler le maillot des Bleus pour l’occasion. Quelques Pumas étaient également présents, à l’image du capitaine Julián Montoya et de l’entraîneur adjoint Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe.

Un cadre solennel qui n’a pas freiné les ardeurs de Romain Briatte. Le 3e ligne du Stade Français novice en bleu malgré ses 31 ans a poussé la chansonnette, a capella, comme le veut la tradition des « bizuths ».

Mais lui pourra raconter plus tard qu’il a entonné « Parce qu’on sait jamais » de Christophe Maé sous les ors de la République et sous les sourires de l’assistance qui n’en attendait pas tant.

« La visite du XV de France en Argentine ne souligne pas seulement l’importance des événements sportifs internationaux, mais elle renforce également les liens d’amitié et de coopération entre la France et l’Argentine », a souligné Laurent Waksmann, conseiller élu des Français de l’étranger, à l’issue de la réception.

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Le XV de France poursuit son acclimatation et sa préparation en vue des trois matchs prévus à son programme en juillet : deux test-matchs officiels contre les Pumas (les 6 et 13 juillet) et une rencontre face à l’Uruguay qui n’a pas valeur de rencontre officielle (le 10 à Montevideo).

 

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Flankly 1 hour 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 1 hour 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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