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Eddie Jones devrait être nommé sélectionneur du Japon

Eddie Jones, Coach of Barbarians, looks on as he inspects the pitch prior to the Test Match between Wales and Barbarians at Principality Stadium on November 04, 2023 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images for Barbarians)

Eddie Jones est sur le point de faire son retour à la tête du Japon, un poste qu’il a déjà occupé jusqu’en 2015, bien qu’il ait nié avec véhémence les informations faisant état d’un entretien pour ce rôle pendant son mandat de sélectionneur des Wallabies lors de la Coupe Monde de Rugby 2023 en France.

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Des informations en provenance du Japon laissent entendre qu’Eddie Jones, qui avait été à plusieurs reprises pressenti pour occuper le poste, sera officiellement annoncé comme entraîneur principal dans les jours qui viennent. Jones est maintenant prêt à reprendre les rênes, en attendant l’autorisation du conseil d’administration de la Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) qui se réunira le 13 décembre. Il devrait être sous contrat jusqu’à la Coupe du Monde Rugby de 2027.

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Jones a démenti à plusieurs reprises les informations du Sydney Morning Herald selon lesquelles il aurait postulé pour le poste, alors qu’il était sous contrat avec Rugby Australia jusqu’en 2027 pour un montant de 4,5 millions de dollars australiens (2,74 millions d’euros).

Le départ de l’ancien sélectionneur de l’Angleterre, neuf mois seulement après le début d’un contrat de cinq ans, n’est pas une surprise après une Coupe du Monde de Rugby désastreuse avec les Wallabies, où les doubles champions n’ont pas réussi à franchir les phases de poule malgré ce que beaucoup considéraient comme un tirage au sort favorable.

Il était aussi pressenti en Géorgie

Jones avait également été pressenti pour le poste d’entraîneur principal de la Géorgie, en concurrence avec des personnalités illustres comme l’ancien sélectionneur de l’Irlande Joe Schmidt et l’ancien entraîneur adjoint de l’Angleterre et ex-entraîneur de Montpellier Richard Cockerill. Toutefois, ce dernier aurait remporté la victoire et obtenu le poste avec les Lelos.

Jones a été nommé à nouveau sélectionneur de l’Australie en janvier 2023, un mois seulement après que la Rugby Football Union l’a limogé en raison d’une mauvaise série de résultats au cours de laquelle l’Angleterre n’avait remporté que cinq des douze tests en 2022.

Il a conduit l’Angleterre à trois titres du Tournoi des Six Nations, dont le Grand Chelem en 2016, mais aussi à la finale de la Coupe du monde 2019 au Japon.

Le retour de Jones en Australie, qu’il a entraînée entre 2001 et 2005 et menée jusqu’à la finale de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2003, battue par l’Angleterre, a rapidement tourné à l’aigre.

La pire saison des Wallabies

Les Wallabies ont remporté deux des neuf tests cette année, contre la Géorgie et le Portugal, et se sont inclinés 22-15 et 40-6 face aux Pays de Galles et aux Fidji lors de la Coupe du monde en France.

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Le taux de victoire de 12,5 % de l’Australie au cours du deuxième mandat de Jones en tant que sélectionneur des Wallabies est le plus faible de l’histoire de l’équipe.

Par ailleurs, le site Internet sportif japonais Sponichi a rapporté que le manager général des Wallabies, Chris Webb, qui a récemment quitté son poste, pourrait rejoindre le staff de Jones au Japon.

Webb, un collègue de longue date d’Eddie Jones depuis le début des années 2000 avec les Wallabies, connaît bien le rugby japonais, puisqu’il a beaucoup travaillé dans le pays. Il est actuellement consultant auprès de Toshiba.

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Flankly 1 hour ago
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Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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Nickers 1 hour ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

Very poor understanding of what's going on and 0 ability to read. When I say playing behind the gain line you take this to mean all off-loads and site times we are playing in front of the gain line???


Every time we play a lot of rugby behind the gain line (for clarity, meaning trying to build an attack and use width without front foot ball 5m+ behind the most recent breakdown) we go backwards and turn the ball over in some way. Every time a player is tackled behind the most recent breakdown you need more and more people to clear out because your forwards have to go back around the corner, whereas opposition players can keep moving forward. Eventually you run out of either players to clear out or players to pass to and the result in a big net loss of territory and often a turnover. You may have witnessed that 20+ times in the game against England. This is a particularly dumb idea inside your own 40m which is where, for some reason, we are most likely to employ it.


The very best ABs teams never built an identity around attacking from poor positions. The DC era team was known for being the team that kicked the most. To engineer field position and apply pressure, and create broken play to counter attack. This current team is not differentiating between when a defence has lost it's structure and there are opportunities, and when they are completely set and there is nothing on. The reason they are going for 30 minute + periods in every game without scoring a single point, even against Japan and a poor Australian team, is because they are playing most of their rugby on the back foot in the wrong half.

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Nickers 1 hour ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

I thought we made a lot of progress against that type of defence by the WC last year. Lots of direct running and punching holes rather than using width. Against that type of defence I think you have to be looking to kick on first phase when you have front foot ball which we did relatively successfully. We are playing a lot of rugby behind the gain line at the moment. They are looking for those little interchanges for soft shoulders and fast ball or off loads but it regularly turns into them battering away with slow ball and going backwards, then putting in a very rushed kick under huge pressure.


JB brought that dimension when he first moved into 12 a couple of years ago but he's definitely not been at his best this year. I don't know if it is because he is being asked to play a narrow role, or carrying a niggle or two, but he does not look confident to me. He had that clean break on the weekend and stood there like he was a prop who found himself in open space and didn't know what to do with the ball. He is still a good first phase ball carrier though, they use him a lot off the line out to set up fast clean ball, but I don't think anyone is particularly clear on what they are supposed to do at that point. He was used really successfully as a second playmaker last year but I don't think he's been at that role once this year. He is a triple threat player but playing a very 1 dimensional role at the moment. He and Reiko have been absolutely rock solid on defence which is why I don't think there will be too much experimentation or changes there.

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