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Champions Cup : La Rochelle lance les hostilités

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Les Rochelais retrouvent ce vendredi soir une compétition qu'ils ont remportée deux fois en 2022 et 2023. (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images)

Les doubles lauréats rochelais (2022, 2023) ouvrent la saison de la Champions Cup vendredi en se déplaçant à Bath, tandis que le champion en titre toulousain reçoit les Irlandais de l’Ulster, dimanche, pour la première journée de la phase de groupes.

La Rochelle ouvre le bal à Bath

Battus à domicile par Vannes en championnat (23-14), les Maritimes font grise mine. Malgré leur sixième place au championnat, les hommes de Ronan O’Gara ont connu plusieurs fois des trous d’air cette saison, notamment en déplacement à Montpellier ou à Saint-Sébastien contre Bayonne.

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Gare donc à la douche froide à Bath, vendredi soir (21h), où les Maritimes pourront compter sur les retours d’Alldritt et Kerr-Barlow. Finalistes du championnat d’Angleterre l’an passé, les Anglais sont l’équipe en forme de la Premiership, dont ils occupent la première place avec six victoires pour une seule défaite, et comptent notamment dans leurs rangs l’ouvreur écossais Finn Russell ou le pilier international sud-africain Thomas du Toit.

Toulon en périple chez les Stormers

Parti lundi pour l’Afrique du Sud, Toulon est arrivé mardi pour affronter les Stormers samedi à Port Elizabeth (16h15). Un programme serré qui laisse peu de place aux entraînements pour les Toulonnais, quatrièmes du championnat et dont le pack va devoir rivaliser avec celui du pilier des Springboks Frans Malherbe.

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Une aventure « incroyable » pour le deuxième ligne du RCT David Ribbans, sud-africain et qui a joué aux Stormers. « Toute ma famille est en Afrique du Sud, j’ai hâte d’y être car ce sera vraiment spécial pour moi », explique-t-il, tout en déclarant que le RCT doit « prendre sa revanche » après sa saison ratée l’an passé (éliminé dès les poules).

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    As the balance of power shifts away from Ireland, has Andy Farrell got his Lions calls right?

    I'm a little more surprised at your overt, small man bias against Leinster.

    Made me chuckle, I worked for them for 7 years! But I do have the good sense to realize that they have not won the silverware they should have.


    So you should be wondering what needs to be added to make that happen. Nobody would argue with picks like Porter, Sheehan, Furlong, McCarthy, JVDF, JGP, Ringrose, Keenan and Lowe.


    Outside those it is conjecture, and sadly you’re too thick to see it.


    For example, Kelleher may be a better edge forward than George. Is he a better lineout thrower, or a better leader to have on the pitch at the finish of games? Absolutely not. James Ryan has been pretty quiet for the better part of a couple of seasons now.


    Jack Conan is a good number 8 among a lot of other good forwards in Dublin, Aaron Wainwright and Jac Morgan have been keeping the Welsh pack afloat ever since the last RWC.


    You’d need a much broader rugby mind and upbringing to know it.


    Of course not, as only an idiot would drop an entire cohort of players due to one lost game now, wouldn’t they?

    And here is the root of your problem in a nutshell. They cannot be ‘dropped’ when they were never in the squad in the first place.


    You are the ‘ass’ in ‘assume’.


    Leinster players do not pre-select themselves and they are not automatic choices. There, that’s your rugby ABC for today. Rest of the alphabet to follow when you grow up.

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