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Depoortere convoqué pour préparer l’Ecosse avec six autres joueurs

LE CAP, AFRIQUE DU SUD - 4 JUILLET : Nicolas Depoortere (C) de la France U20 pendant le Championnat U20 World Rugby 2023, match de poule A entre la France et le Pays de Galles au Athlone Stadium le 4 juillet 2023 au Cap, en Afrique du Sud. (Photo par World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images)

La France a appelé sept nouveaux joueurs dans son équipe cette semaine, Fabien Galthié cherchant à recoller les morceaux après la défaite record de 17-38 contre l’Irlande à Marseille lors de la première journée du Tournoi des Six Nations.

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Alors qu’il s’est incliné face à l’UBB dimanche soir (32-37), le pilier du RC Toulon Dany Priso (30 ans, 18 sélections) a été appelé pour palier le forfait de Reda Wardi qui s’est fracturé le poignet au Stade Vélodrome.

Le pilier gauche avait fait son entrée à la 55e minute en remplacement de Cyril Baille mais avait été obligé de sortir 16 minutes plus tard en raison d’une fracture au poignet gauche. Le joueur (28 ans, 15 sélections) aurait subi une intervention chirurgicale dans le courant du week-end et est indisponible pendant quatre mois, ce qui met fin à son Tournoi.

Dany Priso, originaire du Cameroun, a vécu sa dernière sélection en bleu face au Japon en novembre 2022.

Depoortere à la rescousse

Il retrouvera celui qui a coupé les pattes à son équipe dimanche soir, le trois-quarts centre de l’UBB Nicolas Depoortere. Présent dans le groupe France pour cette campagne du Tournoi 2024, il n’avait pas été retenu face à l’Irlande et c’est sous les couleurs de son club qu’il a brillé en offrant l’essai de la victoire face à Toulon à l’occasion de la 14e journée de Top 14.

Alors que ses coéquipiers seront en vacances (le Top 14 reprend le 17 février), Depoortere retrouvera les internationaux français groggy et frustrés par leur défaite d’entrée de jeu contre l’Irlande. « Je suis content parce qu’on a gagné et je repars avec le sourire à Marcoussis. J’espère apporter toute ma joie là-bas », a dit le jeune joueur de 21 ans, champion du monde 2023 avec les U20 et toujours en attente de sa première sélection en bleu.

Reconstruire la deuxième-ligne

Le deuxième-ligne toulonnais Matthias Halagahu, âgé de 22 ans, a également été appelé, car les réserves de deuxième-ligne de la France seront certainement réduites cette semaine en raison de la suspension attendue de Paul Willemse qui a écopé d’un carton rouge pour deux déblayages épaule contre tête à Marseille.

Dès lors, la deuxième-ligne va être considérablement revue. Appelé en dernière minute pour combler le forfait de Romain Taofinenua juste avant le match contre l’Irlande (infection à la jambe), la pépite de Perpignan Posolo Tuilagi (19 ans, 1,92 m, 145 kg) était entrée en cours de jeu et pourrait même être titularisé face à l’Ecosse pour la première fois, en raison des circonstances.

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Les sparring-partners habituels

Il y a beaucoup de jeunesse dans le groupe de joueurs qui arrivent, avec le centre d’origine anglaise de Pau Emilien Gailleton (20 ans) et le demi d’ouverture du Stade français Léo Barré (21 ans) – qui peut aussi jouer centre et arrière – déjà sparring-partners du XV de France dans la préparation du match contre l’Irlande.

Le troisième-ligne de Toulouse Alexandre Roumat est le cinquième de ces joueurs qui avaient retrouvé leurs clubs respectifs en milieu de semaine dernière. Le pilier du Racing 92 Thomas Laclayat (26 ans) fait également partie de la liste des joueurs convoqués à Marcoussis pour préparer le déplacement de la France à Édimbourg samedi pour affronter l’Écosse.

« C’est un moment à vivre collectivement, un moment dur. Mais le Tournoi continue, il reste quatre matchs à jouer », avait déclaré Fabien Galthié en conférence de presse d’après-match.

Les joueurs de l’équipe de France se rendront dans la capitale écossaise en occupant la dernière place du classement du Tournoi des Six Nations. Ils affronteront une équipe qui a mis fin à une période de 22 ans sans victoire à Cardiff lors de la première journée, même si cette victoire a été obtenue de manière difficile, avec une avance de 27 points qui a failli être gâchée.

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JW 13 minutes ago
'The Wallabies only have themselves to blame': How the Lions sunk Australia in Melbourne

Cameron Woki picked at the base of a ruck and jumped/dived over. That would clearly now be penalised.

But the Sheehan try is different to my eye. It starts from a tap penalty, he drives forward, the two WB defenders go low for a tackle in the assumption Sheehan will go to ground. He does not, but seeing the hole now left dives through it. In this case surely there is zero danger there.

World Rugby’s terminology/interpretation recently (shared again after this) is that it’s ok to hurdle/dive (that includes over, say a ruck, which we have seen this many times even in this years SR) to score a try, but it’s not (OK) to avoid a tackle. I can’t remember the one you describe (which may have been where their clarification came from) but that would sound OK. Sheehan definitely was playing the rope-a-dope and dived to avoid being tackled (can’t call it tackled really, just blocked/stopped lol), so shouldn’t have been awarded (I wasn’t aware of this last definition so just thought it was a very smart move). Was it premeditated? I’m not sure, but he could definitely have collected someones head if that was the case. And I guess even if he saw the space, I guess it’s not something they can allow as others might try it and get it terribly wrong?


Well summed up Miz. I have been thinking the whole situation of events that lead to this type of sneaky move is the problem, particularly as it relates to the difficulty and effort defenders now go to stop such situations (like say Slippers try), where players go extremely low to drive from meters out (and in most cases plays just trying to dive under). It’s also ugly business seeing attempt after attempt to go in under the tacklers, especially with them not really being able to perform a ‘tackle’ at all. I would simply give the defenders their goal line. All they need is some part of the body on or behind, and this will stop the play (being the fuel to this fire) from being attempted I reckon.

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Mzilikazi 1 hour ago
'The Wallabies only have themselves to blame': How the Lions sunk Australia in Melbourne

I get where you are coming from,Om. And there was a case when that French under strength team came out to Australia. Cameron Woki picked at the base of a ruck and jumped/dived over. That would clearly now be penalised.


But the Sheehan try is different to my eye. It starts from a tap penalty, he drives forward, the two WB defenders go low for a tackle in the assumption Sheehan will go to ground. He does not, but seeing the hole now left dives through it. In this case surely there is zero danger there.


Both WB heads are well clear below. There would have been far more danger had Sheehan also dropped low, as he had done on one, or was it two occasions in the game.


I just can’t see his movement as a jump. There is virtually no vertical element, it is say only 5% upwards. Surely at 95% horizontal, that won’t be penalised, not even seriously looked at ?


“It is different to the sideline touchdown on the wing”. You are the only person in hundreds of posts I have read who brings that up. I have been thinking of that as well, but not commented till now prompted by you. And you are correct, it is in most cases very different, being a side on tackle, not head on. But still, it is often more a jump than a dive. I would not advocate for penalising…..some wonderful tries scored that way, and the danger element is generally not excessive, at least not for head injuries.

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TL 3 hours ago
'The Wallabies only have themselves to blame': How the Lions sunk Australia in Melbourne

I agree, the comparison to Rassie in 2021 is unfair. Schmidt despite being highly emotional was scrupulous in not making it a personal grudge match, and in the circumstances I think he behaved in a decent way. What Rassie did was unhinged and extreme. Why fudge the two together? It’s much more common for coaches to do what Joe did, and it was unusual for him, he resisted efforts of journo’s to get him talking about the cards that weren’t in Test 1. He’s taken exception in this instance, if he was doing it all the time I’d dismiss it, but he’s got some cred so I take it a little more seriously when he speaks up.


Otherwise Mr Bishop/ Nick you have yet again proven your acumen as a selector and tactician this series, making calls before not after the event, like any good analyst would. Schmidt was cruelled by injuries this series, more than was apparent initially. In both games injuries to Bobby V and Skelton’s fitness hampered the WBs, and Gleeson in Test 1, and Noah before, and JAS leading in. Picking TT would have been a huge risk after SR form, but yes, seems like it would have been worth taking in hindsight and many were suggesting before. We just don’t have the depth for that not to make a big impact. But Joe seems to have put his chips on Williams as long termer and is investing in him, like he did players in Ireland, when Williams is yet to deliver in this series (although the lineout has been solid when he’s on). Perhaps his time will come. JAS defence is perhaps the biggest issue as Nick you’ve pointed out now on multiple occasions. I just get flummoxed myself thinking about it, as any solution creates another problem, perhaps he just needs time and it just had to be this way….At the very least we need an A/B test and see what the experiment uncovers.


As an Australian I stick to the paradoxical blend of unrealistic optimism and fatalism in reflecting on these decisions that has at once been the blessing and cruse of our culture historically.

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