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Première victoire pour l'Irlande

The Ireland women's team line up last year versus Scotland (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Il n’y a pas réellement eu de match, hier à Cork, entre les Irlandaises et les Galloises pour la 2e rencontre de la 3e journée du Tournoi des Six Nations. L’Irlande remporte sa première victoire en huit matchs dans la compétition (36-5), et offre un joli cadeau de bienvenue à son nouveau sélectionneur Scott Bemand.

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Comme un peu plus tôt dans l’après-midi au terme d’Écosse – Angleterre (0-46), la rencontre a été à sens unique. Si l’on s’attendait à une nouvelle démonstration des Red Roses, on espérait un duel un peu plus équilibré entre les deux équipes occupant le bas du classement.

La rencontre, émaillée de petites fautes de main polluant la continuité du jeu ou de coups de pied mal ajustés annihilant les efforts collectifs, a tourné au cavalier seul des locales.

Bonus offensif assuré dès l’entame de deuxième période, cinq essais au total, cinq points encaissés : l’après-midi a été douce sous le soleil de Cork, malgré le vent, pour l’Irlande, qui recherchait une victoire depuis avril 2022.

Synthèse du match

1
Coups de pied de pénalité
0
5
Essais
1
4
Transformations
0
0
Drops
0
168
Courses avec ballon
91
8
Franchissements
4
13
Turnovers perdus
17
2
Turnovers gagnés
4

Portées par une Aoife Wafer auteure de quelques percées tranchantes et une Dannah O’Brien impériale face aux perches (5/6,), les Irlandaises ont varié leur jeu pour engranger un succès précieux pour la confiance, à l’image de leurs essais : Wafer tout en puissance (14e), Jones en conclusion d’un bon ballon porté (28e), Eve Higgins derrière une touche volée (20e), Beibhinn Parsons en pure ailière (60e).

Et les Galloises dans tout ça ? Condamnées à défendre toute la rencontre, elles ont eu bien du mal à exister offensivement. Leurs difficultés en touche et en sortie de camp les ont acculées dans le camp.

Défense

127
Tentatives de plaquages
221
23
Plaquages manqués
37
85%
% de plaquages réussis
86%

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15%
22%
28%
35%
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63%
Occupation
37%
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Elles n’en sont jamais sorties, hormis durant les vingt dernières minutes, quand le score était acquis et les Irlandaises relâchèrent un peu la pression.

Elles ont ainsi réussi à sauver l’honneur après un long arbitrage vidéo, récompensant la percée de l’ailière Carys Cox, relayée par la remplaçante Gwennan Hopkins (66e), auteure d’une bonne entrée en 3e ligne.

Le pays de Galles a même cru en inscrire un deuxième, mais Carys Cox était devant quand elle a reçu la passe de Sian Jones (77e).

Un match définitivement à oublier pour les Galloises, tandis que les Irlandaises ont trouvé matière à valider le travail fourni, en attendant les deux dernières journées du Tournoi.

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Womens Six Nations

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
England Womens
3
3
0
0
15
2
France Womens
2
2
0
0
9
3
Italy Womens
2
1
1
0
5
4
Scotland Womens
3
1
2
0
4
5
Ireland Womens
2
0
2
0
1
6
Wales Womens
2
0
2
0
1

 

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I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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