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Pro D2 : Brive s'en sort face à Agen et passera Noël au chaud

Le pilier Simon-Pierre Chauvac a marqué le premier essai briviste sur ballon porté, une des forces du CAB cette saison. (Instagram @cabriverugbyofficiel)

Brive, vainqueur laborieux d’Agen (32-18) ce jeudi soir en match avancé de la 15e journée de Pro D2, est assuré de passer les fêtes sur le podium.

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Pro D2
Brive
32 - 18
Temps complet
Agen
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Le CA a tout fait pour ajouter un petit cadeau au pied du sapin sous la forme d’un bonheur offensif, mais devra se contenter d’une victoire à quatre points, qui a mis du temps à se dessiner.

Malgré une séquence de près de deux minutes après la sirène et ce qui ressemblait quand même à un en-avant volontaire agenais sur la dernière offensive, il aura manqué un essai au CAB pour se positionner en tête de la Pro D2, en attendant les matchs de vendredi.

Quoi qu’il en soit, les Corréziens passeront tout de même les fêtes au chaud, assurés de leur place sur le podium grâce à cette 7e victoire à la maison en sept sorties cette saison, la 13e consécutive.

Ce que l’ampleur du score final ne dit pas, c’est que le SUA n’était qu’à quatre points (19-15) à la 46e minute et quand Brive s’est retrouvé à 13 contre 15, ça commençait sentir le sapin pour les joueurs de Pierre-Henri Broncan.

Graphique d'évolution des points

Brive gagne +14
Temps passé en tête
78
Minutes passées en tête
0
96%
% du match passés en tête
0%
69%
Possession sur les 10 dernières minutes
31%
0
Points sur les 10 dernières minutes
0

Timilai Rokoduru venait en effet de rejoindre Courtney Lawes au frigo (45e et 48e) mais Agen n’a pas su profiter de cette période. Quand les deux équipes se sont retrouvées à nouveau à égalité numérique, il y avait toujours quatre points d’écart (22-18).

La chance de Lot-et-Garonnais était passée et le CAB remettait la main sur le match à la manière de ce qu’il avait fait en début de match et de ce qu’il fait depuis le début de saison : grâce à sa maitrise du ballon porté.

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Comme Simon-Pierre Chauvac d’entrée (4e), Benjamin Boudou s’affalait dans l’en-but aidé par tous les gros (64e) pour inscrire le 4e essai des siens, celui du break définitif (29-18).

Brive a le jeu pour être efficace dans ce rugby d’hiver

Dommage pour Agen, qui avait survécu à son indiscipline en première période (deux cartons jaunes à Santiago Socino, 24e, et Hans Lombard-Huet, 38e) pour tourner sur le score de 12-8.

Sous la pluie battante et dans des conditions donc difficiles, il aura manqué un peu de précision dans le jeu agenais pour rivaliser avec le solide pack de cette équipe briviste.

Le SUA n’a trouvé la faille que trop rarement, comme sur l’essai de Loris Tolot (19e) où voyant que ça ne passait pas en force, il a intelligemment resserré la défense avant d’ouvrir au large pour profiter du décalage.

Le reste du temps, en faisant des choses simples, en profitant du rythme lent de ce match et en étant globalement dominateur en mêlée, Brive sans être génial a maitrisé son sujet pourrait tirer profit de cette période qui s‘ouvre, propice au rugby d’hiver.

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Pro D2

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
Grenoble
14
10
4
0
46
2
Brive
14
9
5
0
42
3
Beziers
14
8
6
0
41
4
Dax
14
9
5
0
38
5
Provence Rugby
14
7
6
1
37
6
US Montauban
14
8
6
0
35
7
Biarritz
14
9
5
0
35
8
Soyaux Angouleme
14
7
5
2
34
9
Agen
14
6
8
0
31
10
Mont de Marsan
14
6
8
0
30
11
Colomiers
14
6
7
1
29
12
USON Nevers
14
6
8
0
27
13
Aurillac
14
6
8
0
26
14
Valence Romans
14
5
9
0
24
15
Oyonnax
14
5
9
0
24
16
Nice
14
3
11
0
17


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JW 24 minutes ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

Yep, that's exactly what I want.

Glasgow won the URC and Edinburgh finished 16th, but Scotland won the six nations, Edinburgh would qualify for the Champions Cup under your system.

It's 'or'. If Glasgow won the URC or Scotland won the six nations. If one of those happens I believe it will (or should) be because the league is in a strong place, and that if a Scotland side can do that, there next best club team should be allowed to reach for the same and that would better serve the advancement of the game.


Now, of course picking a two team league like Scotland is the extreme case of your argument, but I'm happy for you to make it. First, Edinbourgh are a good mid table team, so they are deserving, as my concept would have predicted, of the opportunity to show can step up. Second, you can't be making a serious case that Gloucester are better based on beating them, surely. You need to read Nicks latest article on SA for a current perspective on road teams in the EPCR. Christ, you can even follow Gloucester and look at the team they put out the following week to know that those games are meaningless.


More importantly, third. Glasgow are in a league/pool with Italy, So the next team to be given a spot in my technically imperfect concept would be Benneton. To be fair to my idea that's still in it's infancy, I haven't given any thought to those 'two team' leagues/countries yet, and I'm not about to 😋

They would be arguably worse if they didn't win the Challenge Cup.

Incorrect. You aren't obviously familiar with knockout football Finn, it's a 'one off' game. But in any case, that's not your argument. You're trying to suggest they're not better than the fourth ranked team in the Challenge Cup that hasn't already qualified in their own league, so that could be including quarter finalists. I have already given you an example of a team that is the first to get knocked out by the champions not getting a fair ranking to a team that loses to one of the worst of the semi final teams (for example).

Sharks are better

There is just so much wrong with your view here. First, the team that you are knocking out for this, are the Stormers, who weren't even in the Challenge Cup. They were the 7th ranked team in the Champions Cup. I've also already said there is good precedent to allow someone outside the league table who was heavily impacted early in the season by injury to get through by winning Challenge Cup. You've also lost the argument that Sharks qualify as the third (their two best are in my league qualification system) South African team (because a SAn team won the CC, it just happened to be them) in my system. I'm doubt that's the last of reasons to be found either.


Your system doesn't account for performance or changes in their domestic leagues models, and rely's heavily on an imperfect and less effective 'winner takes all' model.

Giving more incentives to do well in the Challenge Cup will make people take it more seriously. My system does that and yours doesn't.

No your systems doesn't. Not all the time/circumstances. You literally just quoted me describing how they aren't going to care about Challenge Cup if they are already qualifying through league performance. They are also not going to hinder their chance at high seed in the league and knockout matches, for the pointless prestige of the Challenge Cup.


My idea fixes this by the suggesting that say a South African or Irish side would actually still have some desire to win one of their own sides a qualification spot if they win the Challenge Cup though. I'll admit, its not the strongest incentive, but it is better than your nothing. I repeat though, if your not balance entries, or just my assignment, then obviously winning the Challenge Cup should get you through, but your idea of 4th place getting in a 20 team EPCR? Cant you see the difference lol


Not even going to bother finishing that last paragraph. 8 of 10 is not an equal share.

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