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Posolo Tuilagi, l'habituel invité de dernière minute

Posolo Tuilagi (France) (Photo par Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Ça fait deux fois qu’on lui fait le coup et il doit commencer à être habitué. Posolo Tuilagi (19 ans, 3 sélections) vient d’être appelé en dernière minute pour être titulaire avec les U20 dans le Crunch marquant la fin du Tournoi des Six Nations.

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Libéré de ses obligations du XV de France le mercredi soir, il est finalement convoqué le lendemain matin avec les jeunes.

C’est la deuxième fois que le puissant deuxième-ligne de Perpignan vit la même situation : être l’invité de dernière minute.

De remplaçant à titulaire en trois rencontres

La première fois, c’était pour le France-Irlande des grands du 2 février. Appelé en urgence à Marcoussis le mercredi, il avait fini sur le banc le vendredi au stade Vélodrome pour remplacer Romain Taofifenua (malade) et donc forfait sur ce match.

Le colosse (1,92 m, 149 kg) s’en était magnifiquement bien sorti. Remplaçant sur le match suivant en Ecosse, il avait connu sa première titularisation contre l’Italie.

Suffisamment malade pour être forfait face au Pays de Galles, il a finalement été libéré par le staff de Galthié avant le dernier match du Tournoi contre l’Angleterre à Lyon.

Pas de relâche pour les braves

Alors que le Top 14 est relâche ce week-end, il devait être mis au repos. Finalement, le staff des Bleuets a revu sa copie présentée mercredi matin et a convoqué son joueur fétiche, champion du monde en 2023, pour le mettre titulaire, histoire de ne pas manquer une bonne occasion de gagner.

Ainsi, Simon Huchet se retrouve sur le banc, et Antonin Corso, présent lors de trois des quatre premières rencontres du Tournoi, n’apparaît plus sur la feuille de match.

Habitué à s’entraîner avec le XV de France, Posolo Tuilagi va devoir apprendre en moins de deux jours à s’adapter à cet environnement changeant qui caractérise les Bleuets.

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JW 18 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.


What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.


Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.


There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..

Whilst these All Blacks aren’t blowing teams off the park like during the 2010s, they are nuggety and resourceful and don’t wilt. They are prepared to win the hard way, accumulating points by any means necessary.

and..

The other top sides in the world struggled to put them away. France and South Africa both could have well been defeated on home soil.

I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍

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