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Tevita Tatafu quittera Bayonne pour l'UBB l'an prochain

Le pilier tongien de Bayonne Tevita Tatafu court avec le ballon lors du match de Top14 entre la Section Paloise et l'Aviron Bayonnais au Stade du Hameau à Pau, le 14 septembre 2024. (Photo by GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Le jeune pilier droit d’origine tongienne de Bayonne Tevita Tatafu rejoindra l’été prochain et pour quatre saisons le club de Bordeaux-Bègles, où il retrouvera son ancien entraîneur Yannick Bru, a-t-on appris mardi de l’entourage du joueur.

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Sous contrat avec Bayonne jusqu’en 2026, Tatafu, 21 ans, a fait activer une clause de sortie lui permettant de rejoindre un autre club avant cette échéance.

Le Tongien de naissance, qui possède le statut JIFF (joueur issu de la filière de formation), a choisi l’UBB, suivant deux autres piliers formés à l’Aviron, Ugo Boniface en 2022 et Matis Perchaud cet été.

Tatafu sélectionnable avec les Bleus à partir du 1er novembre

Tatafu, qui sera sélectionnable avec l’équipe de France à compter du 1er novembre, avait été retenu dans le groupe élargi des Bleus avant la Tournée en Argentine sans s’y rendre, faute de papiers en règle.

A l’UBB, il viendra renforcer un poste où figurent deux Tongiens, Ben Tameifuna et son oncle Toma Taufa, ainsi que l’international français Sipili Falatea.

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JW 34 minutes ago
How can Scott Robertson revive the All Blacks’ playmaking ‘triple threat’?

Love how you stoke up the fire with these slow burners Nick, great time to let the air into this one too coming into Jordies new home for a few months.


Razor (and possibly Cullen?) is the perfect coach to keep fueling Jordies own flame. Foster on the other hand has to be a people person because he's always trying to douse everyones due to his own lack of enterprise.


I didn't want to nark on the man but we still have Reiks waiting to be ignited as well. His own play when he first moved to center was full of threat and tact. He could cut in just as easily as swing out and had some great ball handling to put people away with. While we haven't seen much more of that since, I think he has at least been working hard on his defence and his books under Foster and Schmidt, and could turn into a Conrad (or even Nonu) one day. I'm not quite so sure Jordie has been making the same progress in the meantime.


I've been really happy with Jordies workons this year however, but that Final was a big learning curve and I've not really sure I've seen the calmness required to pull off Nonu type plays through his career so far. In fact he has often been the opposite and been a bit ropey when he was in more of a playmaker role at 15, I do think he has all the skills and desire to make these sorts of plays though, just having such a wide scope as a 'triple' threat put's a big demand on being able to read the game. So perhaps I might not go too much further than trying to use that big boot, and keeping it simple really. Like Nonu did.


I'm happy with all those 10 and 15 pictures myself, especially the ones where Jordan is playing more of a hand. He is someone who certainly could do with some sort of 'double' threat to help his line breaking ability and I certainly think he has some sort of innate skill to do the right thing. Sadly it's not going to happen in conjunction with Beaudie I don't think. This is going to be retirement. 2nd start back playing with his old courage (he actually did run the ball after all) and he's concussed again, not good.


Trouble is for this team, it could be a completely different 10, 12, 13. That shouldn't stop Razor from encouraging all the options the All Blacks have in those positions, right now. Also looking forward to Perofeta coming into fullback late instead of BB or Dmac going there.

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