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Contre l’Angleterre, « être capable de faire un match de 80 mn »

La co-entraîneure de l'équipe de France, Gaëlle Mignot,avant le match international de rugby à XV des Six Nations entre le Pays de Galles et la France au Cardiff Arms Park à Cardiff, dans le sud du Pays de Galles, le 21 avril 2024. (Photo by Geoff Caddick / AFP) (Photo by GEOFF CADDICK/AFP via Getty Images)

Ça a beau être un nouveau groupe, un nouveau contexte, un nouveau terrain. Mais le souvenir du Crunch de l’année dernière est encore dans les têtes. Une série de baffes anglaises en première période (33-0 à la pause) puis un retour de baffes en seconde période pour échouer de cinq points à Twickenham (38-33). C’était la 12e défaite de rang des Françaises face aux Red Roses.

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« On a eu 20-25 minutes de blanc total où on se prend 30 points », se souvient la trois-quarts centre Gabrielle Vernier. Cette année, le groupe a travaillé très dur pour éviter de refaire les mêmes erreurs.

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Depuis près d’un an, la préparation mentale s’est ajoutée à la préparation physique. « On travaille beaucoup sur le nous », confirme Alexandra Chambon qui sera remplaçante contre l’Angleterre.

« Le moment important pour nous, ça va être la globalité du match », tranche Gaëlle Mignot, co-sélectionneure de l’équipe. « La stratégie, on la peaufine, on l’affine encore à la veille du match en discutant, en échangeant avec les joueuses, avoir leur ressenti, comment on va faire en fonction de la météo, du coup d’envoi – est-ce qu’on le reçoit, est-ce qu’on le donne. Ce qui est important c’est le ressenti des joueuses.

« Notre envie sera de faire une grosse entame. L’an dernier, chez elles, on n’arrive pas à scorer. Aujourd’hui on a grandi et le fait de travailler beaucoup sur la gestion des émotions, on est prêt à parer à toute éventualité, à marquer les premiers. Être capable de faire un match de 80 mn et de parer à n’importe quelle éventualité. Ça va être un match peut être fou, peut-être auront-elles le ballon d’entrée. Je ne connais pas le scénario, mais nos joueuses sont prêtes. »

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32
Le premier essai gagne
60%
L'équipe recevante gagne
40%

Partant de là, la composition a été pensée pour tenir jusqu’au bout. « L’idée c’est surtout d’apporter un équilibre sur 80 mn. On sait que ce match va peut-être se jouer dans les dix dernières minutes. La volonté de mettre Anne-Cécile (Ciofani, ndlr) et Chloé (Jacquet, ndlr), des joueuses d’expérience – elles ont vécu les derniers JO, elles connaissent la nature des gros événement – va permettre de maîtriser ces choses-là », estime Gaëlle Mignot.

« Notre objectif c’est d’essayer de réaliser nos compos et notre organisation d’équipe la plus complémentaire possible entre le XV de départ et le XV de fin », complète David Ortiz, l’autre moitié du binôme.

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« Le choix de Gaëlle (Hermet, ndlr) sur les deux derniers matchs, c’était un choix d’équilibre pour bien finir les matchs. Ce qu’on veut, c’est une équipe qui s’adapte constamment au contexte, à l’adversaire, à la situation. Et dans ce sens-là, on cherche à créer une émulation dans le groupe. Depuis le début de notre mandat, il y a une colonne vertébrale qui peut se dégager, mais de manière globale, on essaie de créer une émulation au sein de l’équipe. On peut changer une pièce du puzzle, mais le puzzle ne change pas. »

Un paramètre qui entrera en ligne de compte, c’est le public que l’on attend nombreux au Stade Chaban-Delmas de Bordeaux. Si 22 000 billets ont déjà été vendus, il reste encore près de 10 000 places de libres. Seront-elles pourvues ?

« On a déjà eu l’expérience de Twickenham l’an passé avec un stade quasi plein », se rappelle David Ortiz. « Petit à petit, quand on voit les affluences qu’on peut faire, les filles commencent à s’y habituer. C’est un contexte particulier, mais aujourd’hui ce sera un supplément d’âme dans notre motivation. »

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« On va avoir quelque chose de supplémentaire, c’est l’appui du public, c’est pas anodin », poursuit Gaëlle Mignot. « Il n’y a pas besoin de leur en parler pour savoir que les filles sont concernées, concentrées.

« Elles ont envie de se récompenser. Dans notre ligne de mire, c’est une étape dans ce projet sur trois ans. On a envie, pour l’ensemble du groupe, de se récompenser. »

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Tom 3 hours ago
What is the future of rugby in 2025?

Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol! Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol! Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistol!


It's incredible to see the boys playing like this. Back to the form that saw them finish on top of the regular season and beat Toulon to win the challenge cup. Ibitoye and Ravouvou doing a cracking Piutau/Radradra impression.


It's abundantly clear that Borthwick and Wigglesworth need to transform the England attack and incorporate some of the Bears way. Unfortunately until the Bears are competing in Europe, the old criticisms will still be used.. we failed to fire any punches against La Rochelle and Leinster which goes to show there is still work to do but both those sides are packed full of elite players so it's not the fairest comparison to expect Bristol to compete with them. I feel Bristol are on the way up though and the best is yet to come. Tom Jordan next year is going to be obscene.


Test rugby is obviously a different beast and does Borthwick have enough time with the players to develop the level of skill the Bears plays have? Even if he wanted to? We should definitely be able to see some progress, Scotland have certainly managed it. England aren't going to start throwing the ball around like that but England's attack looks prehistoric by comparison, I hope they take some inspiration from the clarity and freedom of expression shown by the Bears (and Scotland - who keep beating us, by the way!). Bristol have the best attack in the premiership, it'd be mad for England to ignore it because it doesn't fit with the Borthwick and Wigglesworth idea of how test rugby should be played. You gotta use what is available to you. Sadly I think England will try reluctantly to incorporate some of these ideas and end up even more confused and lacking identity than ever. At the moment England have two teams, they have 14 players and Marcus Smith. Marcus sticks out as a sore thumb in a team coached to play in a manner ideologically opposed to the way he plays rugby, does the Bears factor confuse matters further? I just have no confidence in Borthers and Wiggles.


Crazy to see the Prem with more ball in play than SR!

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JW 7 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 12 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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