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Italie : Allan de retour pour la tournée d'automne, Varney absent

L'ouvreur ou arrière Tommy Allan avait pris du recul à l'issue de la Coupe du Monde 2023. Le voilà de retour parmi les Azzurri. (Photo by Silvia Lore/Getty Images)

Le demi d’ouverture ou arrière de Perpignan Tommaso Allan est de retour en équipe d’Italie, à l’occasion de la tournée d’automne, tandis que le demi de mêlée Stephen Varney, qui pourrait rejoindre sous peu, est absent.

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Allan avait décidé de mettre sa carrière internationale entre parenthèses en plein Tournoi des Six Nations en février dernier, car « l’année (fut) très fatigante, physiquement et mentalement », avait-il expliqué.

L’international aux 80 sélections n’a plus porté le maillot italien depuis la déroute de son équipe face à l’Irlande (36-0) à Dublin lors de la 2e journée du Tournoi 2024, match pour lequel il était remplaçant.

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Cette saison, il a disputé trois matchs de Top 14 avec l’USAP et inscrit seize points.

Quesada a convoqué un joueur de Serie A

Parmi les 34 joueurs retenus par l’Argentin Gonzalo Quesada, figurent deux nouveaux venus : le talonneur de Parme Tommaso Di Bartolomeo et le centre Giulio Bertaccini.

Fait rare, ce dernier n’évolue pas dans l’une des deux franchises fédérales italiennes ou à l’étranger, mais en Serie A avec Valorugby Emilia.

En revanche, l’ailier ou centre de Bayonne Federico Mori et le demi de mêlée de Gloucester Stephen Varney, qui pourrait changer de club et rejoindre Vannes comme l’a annoncé RugbyPass ce jeudi, sont absents.

L’Italie, 8e au classement de World Rugby, affrontera l’Argentine (6e) le 9 novembre à Udine (nord-est), la Géorgie (12e) le 17 novembre à Gênes (nord-ouest), avant de défier la Nouvelle-Zélande (3e) le 23 novembre à l’Allianz Stadium, le stade de la Juventus Turin.

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« Ces test-matchs de novembre sont un nouveau rendez-vous important pour consolider nos progrès », a espéré Quesada qui bouclera sa première année à la tête de la Nazionale.

Avec l’Argentin, l’Italie a réalisé le meilleur Tournoi des Six Nations de son histoire (deux victoires, un nul et deux défaites).

Les 34 joueurs italiens sélectionnés pour la tournée d’automne

Avants
Tommaso di Bartolomeo (Parme), Lorenzo Cannone (Benetton Rugby), Niccolò Cannone (Benetton Rugby), Pietro Ceccarelli (Perpignan), Riccardo Favretto (Benetton Rugby), Simone Ferrari (Benetton Rugby), Danilo Fischetti (Parme), Alessandro Izekor (Benetton Rugby), Michele Lamaro (Benetton Rugby), Dino Lamb (Harlequins), Gianmarco Lucchesi (Toulon), Sebastian Negri (Benetton Rugby), Giacomo Nicotera (Stade Français), Federico Ruzza (Benetton Rugby), Marco Riccioni (Saracens), Mirco Spagnolo (Benetton Rugby), Ross Vintcent (Exeter), Andrea Zambonin (Parme), Manuel Zuliani (Benetton Rugby).

Arrières
Tommaso Allan (Perpignan), Giulio Bertaccini (Valorugby Emilia), Juan Ignacio Brex (Benetton Rugby), Ange Capuozzo (Stade Toulousain), Alessandro Fusco (Parme), Matt Gallagher (Benetton Rugby), Alessandro Garbisi (Benetton Rugby), Paolo Garbisi (Toulon), Monty Ioane (LOU), Louis Lynagh (Benetton Rugby), Leonardo Marin (Benetton Rugby), Tommaso Menoncello (Benetton Rugby), Martin Page-Relo (LOU), Jacopo Trulla (Parme), Marco Zanon (Benetton Rugby).

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JW 2 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

In another recent article I tried to argue for a few key concept changes for EPCR which I think could light the game up in the North.


First, I can't remember who pointed out the obvious elephant in the room (a SA'n poster?), it's a terrible time to play rugby in the NH, and especially your pinnacle tournament. It's been terrible watching with seemingly all the games I wanted to watch being in the dark, hardly able to see what was going on. The Aviva was the only stadium I saw that had lights that could handle the miserable rain. If the global appeal is there, they could do a lot better having day games.


They other primary idea I thuoght would benefit EPCR most, was more content. The Prem could do with it and the Top14 could do with something more important than their own league, so they aren't under so much pressure to sell games. The quality over quantity approach.


Trim it down to two 16 team EPCR competitions, and introduce a third for playing amongst the T2 sides, or the bottom clubs in each league should simply be working on being better during the EPCR.


Champions Cup is made up of league best 15 teams, + 1, the Challenge Cup winner. Without a reason not to, I'd distribute it evenly based on each leauge, dividing into thirds and rounded up, 6 URC 5 Top14 4 English. Each winner (all four) is #1 rank and I'd have a seeding round or two for the other 12 to determine their own brackets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I'd then hold a 6 game pool, home and away, with consecutive of each for those games that involve SA'n teams. Preferrably I'd have a regional thing were all SA'n teams were in the same pool but that's a bit complex for this simple idea.


That pool round further finalises the seeding for knockout round of 16. So #1 pool has essentially duked it out for finals seeding already (better venue planning), and to see who they go up against 16, 15,etc etc. Actually I think I might prefer a single pool round for seeding, and introduce the home and away for Ro16, quarters, and semis (stuffs up venue hire). General idea to produce the most competitive matches possible until the random knockout phase, and fix the random lottery of which two teams get ranked higher after pool play, and also keep the system identical for the Challenge Cup so everthing is succinct. Top T2 side promoted from last year to make 16 in Challenge Cup

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JW 7 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).

Number Of Clubs:

1526

Registered+Unregistered Players:

651146

Number of Referees:

3460

Pre-teen Male Players:

320842

Pre-teen Female Player:

4522

Teen Male Player:

199213

Teen Female Player:

4906

Senior Male Player:

113174

Senior Female Player:

8489

Total Male Player:

633229

Total Female Player:

17917


So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.

The total number of clubs remains consistent, with a marginal increase of 1% from 1,161 to 1,167. 8.1.

A comparative analysis of verified data for 2022 and 2023 highlights a marginal decline of 1% in the number of female players, declining from 6,801 to 6,723. Additionally, the total number of players demonstrates an 8% decrease, dropping from 96,172 to 88,828.

So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).


https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.


The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.


In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.

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