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Junior Kpoku suspendu pour trois matchs

Cork , Irlande - 30 janvier 2025 ; Junior Kpoku (Angleterre), avant de recevoir un carton rouge lors du match du Tournoi des Six Nations U20 entre l'Irlande et l'Angleterre au Virgin Media Park à Cork. (Photo par Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Junior Kpoku, troisième-ligne aile de l’équipe d’Angleterre des moins de 20 ans, ne participera pas au test contre la France à Bath vendredi soir.

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Le joueur du Racing 92 a été suspendu pour trois matchs après avoir écopé d’un carton rouge lors du match contre l’Irlande à Cork, en ouverture du Tournoi des Six Nations U20. Cette exclusion fait suite à un plaquage dangereux survenu à la 15e minute de jeu.

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Lundi 3 février, Kpoku a comparu devant une commission disciplinaire indépendante qui a confirmé son carton rouge et estimé que la faute justifiait une suspension de six semaines.

Toutefois, le joueur ayant reconnu son geste et bénéficiant de circonstances atténuantes, la sanction a été réduite de moitié, passant à trois semaines. De plus, s’il suit le programme de formation au plaquage de World Rugby, il pourrait encore voir sa suspension allégée à deux semaines.

En conséquence, Kpoku manquera non seulement le match contre la France au Recreation Ground, mais aussi la rencontre du Racing 92 face à Vannes en Top 14 le 15 février.

Il pourrait en revanche être disponible pour affronter l’Écosse avec les U20 anglais le 21 février, à condition d’avoir complété le programme de réhabilitation imposé.

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Why Blair Kinghorn should be nailed on as the Lions starting 15

I can see arguments for both Kinghorn, and Keenan starting for the Lions. But I’m less convinced by some of the claims (clearly partisan) supporters are using to argue the merits of one over the other.


For example, a number of Ireland supporters have suggested Kinghorn is ‘defensively weak’. That’s patently false - or at least on the evidence of this 6N, he’s certainly no weaker there than Keenan is, who is presumably the comparative standard they’re using. Keenan was both shrugged off in contact, and beaten on the edge for pace, a number of times during this competition.


Equally, Scotland supporters arguing Kinghorn is the more capable ‘rugby player’ seem to have overlooked the (frankly sizeable) body of evidence demonstrating that Keenan is an excellent ball in hand distributor and decision maker. So that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny either.


I don’t think there’s all that much to choose between them, and either would be a strong choice. I think it would be really interesting from a pure rugby perspective to see Keenan playing a ‘Scotland-esque’ style of high tempo attacking rugby. Either coming into the line more routinely as first receiver, or being swung as a pendulum and getting the ball on the edge against a stretched defence.


That’s assuming Andy Farrell goes that route, of course. He may well just opt for his Ireland system instead, and populate it with the likes of Henshaw, Ringrose, Lowe and Keenan. I’m sure that would win the series. Quite what effect it might have on a Lions audience who were expecting something other than ‘Ireland on tour, but wearing red’ would remain to be seen.


As for the debate at FB, the only ‘eye test’ difference I feel exists is in the pace of rugby Kinghorn (Toulouse? Scotland?) tends to play. His passing/offload game feels crisper and higher tempo than Keenan’s - and as we saw in Paris, his pace and eye for a gap from deep are superior.


But again, that will only prove a decisive factor if Andy Farrell wants to play that way. If all he wants from his FB is to sit deep, field high balls, and mop up then there’s little between these two equally excellent players.

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