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Giorgi Tsutskiridze quitte le Stade français après six saisons

LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE - 27 SEPTEMBRE : Giorgi Tsutskiridze (Géorgie) lors d'une séance d'entraînement à l'Apivia Parc le 27 septembre 2023 à La Rochelle, France. (Photo par Levan Verdzeuli/Getty Images)

L’international géorgien Giorgi Tsutskiridze rejoindra le Black Lion pour les deux prochaines saisons, après avoir passé six ans en France avec le Stade Français.

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Il a rejoint sa première équipe en France, le Stade Aurillacois, en 2018, où il a rapidement eu un impact significatif, jouant un rôle clé pour le club de Pro D2 pendant quatre saisons, avant de déménager à Paris à l’été 2022.

À 27 ans, le joueur a eu peu de temps de jeu avec l’équipe parisienne. La décision de rentrer en Géorgie s’est donc avérée judicieuse, lui permettant de se battre pour une place de titulaire dans l’équipe dirigée par Richard Cockerill.

Avec 36 sélections et six essais, Tsutskiridze a fait ses débuts en Coupe du Monde de Rugby en 2023 et a contribué à la victoire des Lelos dans le Rugby Europe Championship à sept reprises.

À quelques mois du début de la saison de la Super Cup de Rugby Europe, la franchise géorgienne Black Lion annoncera dans les prochains jours trois autres recrutements, trois autres transfuges depuis la France : Vladimer Chachanidze (US Nevers – Pro D2), Guga Ghaniashvili (FC Grenoble – Pro D2), et Vasil Kakovin (Stade Français – Top14).

Le pilier gauche Vasil Kakovin, qui a joué pour le Stade toulousain, le CA Brive, le Racing 92 et le Stade français, a disputé son dernier match avec la Géorgie en 2016 et peut être de nouveau sélectionnable pour la tournée d’été des Lelos.

Le deuxième-ligne Lado Chachanidze, 24 ans, met fin à son aventure en France, son contrat n’ayant pas été prolongé par l’Union Sportive Olympique Nivernaise, repartant dans son pays d’origine.

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Enfin, Guga Ghaniashvili est l’un des plus talentueux espoirs de la première ligne géorgienne, mais il quitte Grenoble sans avoir pu faire ses débuts dans l’équipe senior.

Les triples vainqueurs de la Rugby Europe Super Cup visent une quatrième campagne et espèrent ajouter quelques victoires majeures en Challenge Cup, après avoir battu les Scarlets en décembre 2023.

Cet article publié à l’origine en anglais sur RugbyPass.com a été adapté par Willy Billiard.

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Flankly 57 minutes ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

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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