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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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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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