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Rory Kockott quitte le Stade Français

Rory Kockott reste un leader vocal sur le terrain, mais il a choisi de ne pas prolonger au Stade Français, où il était arrivé en qualité de joker Coupe du Monde (Photo by ROMAIN PERROCHEAU/AFP via Getty Images).

Rory Kockott n’est plus un joueur du Stade Français. Le demi de mêlée d’origine sud-africaine, international français (11 sélections) a décliné la proposition du club, qui souhaitait le prolonger une saison supplémentaire.

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Kockott, 38 ans, était arrivé dans la capitale en qualité de joker Coupe du Monde. Il avait favorablement répondu à l’appel de son ancien entraîneur à Castres Laurent Labit, et avait dans la foulée signé un contrat jusqu’à la fin de la saison.

L’ancien Castrais, double champion de France avec le club tarnais (2013, 2018) n’a pas encore indiqué s’il comptait trouver un autre club, ou reprendre sa carrière d’entraîneur, interrompue.

Kockott avait en effet annoncé sa retraite une première fois en 2022, devant entraîneur en charge de la défense du Castres Olympique. Mais il avait repris du service en cours de saison 2022-2023 pour compenser les blessures des N.9 du CO, jouant quatre rencontres.

Alors qu’il semblait se diriger à nouveau vers la retraite sportive, c’est donc le Stade Français qui l’a sollicité, lui offrant les clés du camion rose lors des phases finales, notamment la demi-finale perdue samedi contre l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles.

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« D’abord comme renfort puis comme cadre, tu as su t’imposer dans ce vestiaire par ton travail et tes valeurs fortes mais aussi sur le terrain par ta personnalité unique », a souligné le club parisien sur Instagram.

Une pige de plus ? Retraite ? Arrivée dans un staff ? Rory Kockott n’a pas indiqué ce qu’il souhaitait faire de son avenir.

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JW 41 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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