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Le Stade Français cherche la solution à son indiscipline

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PARIS, FRANCE - 15 DÉCEMBRE : Sekou Macalou du Stade Français (absent de la photo) reçoit un carton rouge de l'arbitre, Hollie Davidson pendant le match de l'Investec Champions Cup entre le Stade Français Paris et les Saracens au Stade Jean-Bouin le 15 décembre 2024 à Paris. (Photo David Rogers/Getty Images)

Sanctionné de quatre cartons rouges en un mois dont trois lors des deux dernières rencontres de Champions Cup, le Stade Français doit retrouver ses nerfs pour la réception de Perpignan, samedi dans le cadre de la 12e journée du Top 14.

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« Au bout d’un moment, être à quatorze contre quinze, treize contre quinze, ça fait beaucoup », ne pouvait que reconnaître dimanche dernier le pilier samoan Paul Alo-Emile après la défaite contre les Saracens, marquée d’un nouveau rouge.

Lors du derby face au Racing 92 fin novembre, les Parisiens avaient déjà eu une première alerte, lorsque le deuxième ligne JJ Van der Mescht était exclu pour un plaquage bien trop haut sur Henry Chavancy. Les Parisiens qui menaient 40-3 après 60 minutes ont ensuite tremblé pour leur bonus offensif, finalement conservé.

Malgré cet avertissement sans frais, les Soldats roses récidivent, et paient l’addition de leur indiscipline deux semaines plus tard, en déplacement au Munster en Champions Cup.

Deux rouges au Munster

Menés 14-0 par les Irlandais, les coéquipiers de Paul Gabrillagues s’accrochent jusqu’à un enchaînement fatal. À la 49e minute, le deuxième ligne Pierre-Henri Azagoh envoie une manchette dans le visage du troisième ligne Peter O’Mahony en tentant de le plaquer : rouge.

À la 53e minute, même punition pour son compère Baptiste Pesenti. Le N.5 vient de réaliser une prise de catch sur le demi de mêlée Craig Casey, retourné et à deux doigts de finir la tête plantée dans le gazon.

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Réduits à 13, les joueurs du Stade Français coulent peu à peu, et s’inclinent 33 à 7.

La semaine suivante, les hommes de Laurent Labit réussissent une excellente entame à Jean-Bouin face aux Saracens, et dominent l’équipe des internationaux anglais Maro Itoje et Jamie George, menée 10-0 et acculée dans son camp.

Jusqu’à ce que les démons resurgissent. À la 22e minute, Sekou Macalou (29 ans, 20 sélections avec les Bleus) enchaîne deux fautes incompréhensibles : un croche-patte sur le demi de mêlée adverse, avant de plonger épaule en avant sur sa victime alors au sol.

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Un nouveau carton rouge – et deux autres jaunes – plus tard, les Parisiens connaissent un nouveau revers, 28-17.

« Si c’est à 15, c’est un tout autre match. Là on a joué dix minutes à 13 » a regretté jeudi l’arrière Léo Barré.

« On doit être intelligents »

« Chacun doit prendre ses responsabilités et faire très attention sur le terrain, faire l’effort de se baisser, de ne pas attaquer un joueur au sol, de ne pas viser la tête », ne pouvait que répéter comme une évidence Morgan Parra, entraîneur adjoint du Stade Français, après ce match « frustrant » face aux Sarries.

« On bosse avec un arbitre au quotidien », rappelle Parra.

« Cette semaine, on s’est dit qu’on allait s’imposer physiquement », reconnaît le pilier droit samoan du Stade Français Alo-Emile. « Mais parfois c’est à la limite et on doit être agressifs, mais on doit être intelligents aussi. »

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Le Stade Français, qui tarde au démarrage cette année après sa deuxième place de la saison régulière l’an dernier, est-il plus nerveux en raison de son mauvais classement ?

« Je pense que c’est un surplus d’envie, on est tous frustrés du début de saison. On a envie de bien faire », explique Barré pour qui il n’y avait pas de « mauvaises intentions » de la part des joueurs parisiens sanctionnés.

« À nous de nous canaliser et savoir rester froids », conclut Barré.

« On a bossé la technique de plaquage pour se baisser » cette semaine, veut croire le troisième ligne Ryan Chapuis, sans perdre « l’ADN du club » qu’est son agressivité défensive.

Privé de Pesenti, Azagoh et Macalou, tous suspendus, pour la réception de Perpignan samedi (16h30), le Stade Français, douzième du championnat seulement, doit impérativement retrouver sa sérénité pour s’éloigner de la zone rouge.

Top 14

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
Toulouse
11
8
3
0
39
2
Bordeaux
11
8
3
0
37
3
Clermont
11
7
4
0
32
4
Toulon
11
7
4
0
32
5
Bayonne
11
7
4
0
30
6
La Rochelle
11
6
5
0
28
7
Castres
11
6
5
0
27
8
Racing 92
11
5
6
0
23
9
Montpellier
11
4
7
0
21
10
Pau
11
4
7
0
19
11
Perpignan
11
4
7
0
19
12
Stade Francais
11
4
7
0
19
13
Lyon
11
4
7
0
18
14
Vannes
11
3
8
0
15


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JW 1 hour ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

Well some smart scheduling will have to be done, but I'm not sure how we can avoid teams to send a B team in any format. I genuinely just don't like the luck of the draw for who's home or not

That dilemma has been one of the strongest drives of my ideas, where my hope would be for clubs (and more importanltly their fans) to switch focus and allow the leagues to come up with leagues with better player welfare (ie shorter). I get Finn's ideas but I just don't think they are actually going to work, they are kinda like fake incentives. Rugby as a whole needs to improve for this problem to get resolved.


Nick Bishop has come out with an article where he suggests it is just a South African problem, but I think this earlier reply of mine to Finn is pertinent to your question (and that article) so I'll include it here a well.

the appeal of pools of 4, but 6 pool games might not go down well with the French or the South Africans given already cramped schedules.

This is more of a suggestion for NBs new article on SA but I'd argue more pool games mean its easier to have a structure based on region system where say all of the SA teams that qualified are in the same pool, and you can play all those away games against them consecutively. Then return home and they come to you etc.

I don't think its necessarily needed as I think it would be quite easy for EPCR to take into account/do in conjunction with each leagues fixture list.


(I also go on to say I don't like that pool idea in the perfect world but you can ignore this)

To me, pool play should be sort to just acheive a ranking system. The bottom team of each pool is kicked out or 'culled' (perhaps to Challenge Cup, I'm fond of that exchange), but the fixtures then go into consecutive knockouts of home/away fixtures, say 1 v 16, then go thru to 1 v 8(or worst seed of the other winners etc) home/away, 1v4, etc etc. Maybe the Semi's onwards are 'neutral' fixtures and those last three games are just do or die fixtures?

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JW 1 hour ago
‘The problem with this year’s Champions Cup? Too many English clubs’

ould really devalue the competition unless there is a way to incentivise performance, e.g. by allowing teams that do well one year to directly qualify for the next year's competition.

So your intention is that teams prioritize those games because it's going to be more reliable way to remain in Champions than league performance. Say in your predicted case where England has 8 strong teams, only four are going to gain automatic entry, so the other four are going to stay up by doing well enough in Champions Cup pool games.


I would be interested on just how many teams would have gone out of contention in the last few years using your system, my thought is that it would not be a lot. Winning a quarter of your games might be enough to remain in it each year. It greatly depends one how much the leagues fluctuate, and I see that becoming less and less.

the appeal of pools of 4, but 6 pool games might not go down well with the French or the South Africans given already cramped schedules.

This is more of a suggestion for NBs new article on SA but I'd argue more pool games mean its easier to have a structure based on region system where say all of the SA teams that qualified are in the same pool, and you can play all those away games against them consecutively. Then return home and they come to you etc.


I don't think its necessarily needed as I think it would be quite easy for EPCR to take into account/do in conjunction with each leagues fixture list. To me, pool play should be sort to just acheive a ranking system. The bottom team of each pool is kicked out or 'culled' (perhaps to Challenge Cup, I'm fond of that exchange), but the fixtures then go into consecutive knockouts of home/away fixtures, say 1 v 16, then go thru to 1 v 8(or worst seed of the other winners etc) home/away, 1v4, etc etc. Maybe the Semi's onwards are 'neutral' fixtures and those last three games are just do or die fixtures?

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JW 4 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

It's just an endemic problem within EPCR. Glasgow threw away the game on the weekend too by resting players. Those sorts of crazy results are all over tournament.


The closest knockout result in 23' was a 14 point win. 24' had a 1, 3 and 12 point margin games, the rest all 30/40 point thrashings by the home team. In every single game.

“We are not disrespecting [the tournament], but we need to get ourselves into a better position. I don’t know how we solve it. It’s like being invited to someone’s birthday party, then complaining about the chips. We are so grateful to be here.

Haha that's a great line, thanks for the share.


The issue is not really solving the itinerary for South African teams, that is easy, the problem is solving it for the teams that are required to come back from South Africa and win the following week. The perfect example of this was La Rochelle last year having to beat Stormers away and then return for a day to France before heading off to Dublin. They consequently but unsurprising got spanked. It's the same problem Super Rugby created when it required higher ranking sides to travel to another countries top team at the pointy end of the season.


As has been discussed in a recent article about England having too many teams in EPCR, the problems are many and varied in general. Combining EPCR and league games into a signle itinerary/season is no problem, both comps simply need to get together at planning stage and be prepared to have flexible weekends where the two comps are swapped around, but is it going to be as easy to suggest that the EPCR just needs a week off from the Ro16 stage to Quarters (or pool to Ro16 I can remember which it was)? What if that LaRvStomers game was a quarter, when is the semi, or the final going to be played?


South Africa's future is, of course, in South Africa. There is talk of a group wanting to create a Super League in America, touring big cities, no doubt some in the Middle East being included, in a World Series type format of the games biggest stars. It's a terrible idea by itself, but especially when there is already Europe, the ME, and all of Africa crying out for more high level rugby, and South Africa's huge abundance of players that can provide it.

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