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L'Ecosse dans le Top 6 mondial (et la France toujours dans le Top 3)

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L’Écosse connaît le meilleur ranking de son histoire dans le classement mondial féminin World Rugby présenté par Capgemini après avoir battu le Pays de Galles sur le sol gallois pour la première fois depuis 20 ans.

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L’Écosse s’est imposée 20-18 grâce à des essais de Coreen Grant et Rhona Lloyd au début de chaque mi-temps et à 10 points de la botte d’Helen Nelson. L’Écosse porte ainsi sa série de victoires à sept matchs et remplace le Pays de Galles à la sixième place du classement.

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L’équipe de Bryan Easson était assurée de gagner une place en cas de victoire, mais la défaite 48-0 de l’Italie à domicile contre l’Angleterre 24 heures plus tard lui a permis de gagner deux places, passant devant le Pays de Galles et l’Italie.

Avec un gain de 1,53 point pour l’Ecosse, les championnes du WXV 2 ont porté leur cote à 75,90 points. Cependant, un écart de 5,71 points les sépare encore de l’Australie, cinquième, et il leur faudra donc remporter d’autres victoires importantes avant la fin du Tournoi des Six Nations féminin pour avoir une chance de progresser encore.

Le Pays de Galles a vaillamment riposté après avoir été mené 20-3 suite aux essais de Sisilia Tuipulotu et d’Alex Callender – et huit points de la botte fiable de Keira Bevan – pour emmener le match jusqu’à la dernière minute. Cependant, Lleucu George n’a pas réussi à égaler la précision de Bevan sur le tee, ratant la transformation qui aurait permis d’égaliser le score.

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Cette défaite a non seulement compromis les chances du Pays de Galles de terminer dans la première moitié du tableau et d’assurer son retour dans le WXV 1, mais elle s’est également avérée coûteuse en termes de classement, puisqu’un match nul aurait permis au Pays de Galles de conserver son rang en tant qu’équipe la mieux classée des deux. Ayant perdu le même nombre de points que l’Écosse, le Pays de Galles a rétrogradé à la huitième place avec une note de 75,14 points.

La France n’a pas reçu de points pour sa victoire 38-17 sur l’Irlande, lanterne rouge de l’année dernière, au Mans, pas plus que l’Angleterre, qui jouait elle aussi contre une équipe beaucoup moins bien classée. Par conséquent, l’Angleterre reste en tête et la France en troisième position.

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Les Bleues et les Red Roses, quintuples championnes en titre, chercheront à améliorer leurs performances sur 80 minutes lorsqu’elles affronteront respectivement l’Écosse et le Pays de Galles le week-end prochain.

Dans le premier match du week-end d’ouverture, la France a parfois peiné pour venir à bout d’une équipe d’Irlande améliorée qui avait encaissé 53 points contre elle 12 mois plus tôt à Cork.

Les cinq essais français, marqués par Pauline Bourdon-Sansus, Marine Ménager, Madoussou Fall, Agathe Sochat et Élisa Riffonneau, ont tous été transformés, tandis que l’Irlande a inscrit deux essais de consolation en fin de rencontre par l’intermédiaire d’Aoife Wafer et Aoife Dalton.

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L’Angleterre, quant à elle, a battu l’Italie 48-0, bien qu’elle ait joué la majeure partie du match avec 14 joueuses suite au carton rouge de Sarah Beckett.

Il a fallu une demi-heure à l’Angleterre pour percer la ligne italienne grâce à Hannah Botterman et l’équipe a ensuite doublé son avance grâce à un essai d’Abbie Ward.

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Menant 10 à 0, les Red Roses ont transformé leur domination dans tous les aspects du jeu en points en deuxième mi-temps, marquant des essais par la capitaine Marlie Packer, à l’occasion de sa 100e cape, Ellie Kildunne, qui en a marqué deux, et Helena Rowland, Mackenzie Carson et Connie Powell.

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Si aucun de ces résultats n’a eu d’incidence sur le classement, le test de Valladolid entre l’Espagne et l’Afrique du Sud a donné lieu à quelques mouvements, les deux équipes ayant échangé leur place à la suite de la victoire 15-13 des Springbok Women.

L’Afrique du Sud est revenue d’un retard de 13-5 pour reprendre l’avantage dans les dernières secondes grâce à un essai de pénalité et à une pénalité de Jacomina Cilliers, mais l’Espagne avait encore une chance de remporter le match à la dernière seconde, mais la demie d’ouverture Amalia Argudo a manqué sa troisième tentative du match.

Les Springbok Women ont fêté leur quatrième victoire consécutive contre Las Leonas, qu’elles remplacent désormais à la 12e place du classement.

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GrahamVF 34 minutes ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

"has SA actually EVER helped to develop another union to maturity like NZ has with Japan," yes - Argentina. You obviously don't know the history of Argentinian rugby. SA were touring there on long development tours in the 1950's

We continued the Junior Bok tours to the Argentine through to the early 70's

My coach at Grey High was Giepie Wentzel who toured Argentine as a fly half. He told me about how every Argentinian rugby club has pictures of Van Heerden and Danie Craven on prominent display. Yes we have developed a nation far more than NZ has done for Japan. And BTW Sa players were playing and coaching in Japan long before the Kiwis arrived. Fourie du Preez and many others were playing there 15 years ago.


"Isaac Van Heerden's reputation as an innovative coach had spread to Argentina, and he was invited to Buenos Aires to help the Pumas prepare for their first visit to South Africa in 1965.[1][2] Despite Argentina faring badly in this tour,[2] it was the start of a long and happy relationship between Van Heerden and the Pumas. Izak van Heerden took leave from his teaching post in Durban, relocated to Argentina, learnt fluent Spanish, and would revolutionise Argentine play in the late 1960s, laying the way open for great players such as Hugo Porta.[1][2] Van Heerden virtually invented the "tight loose" form of play, an area in which the Argentines would come to excel, and which would become a hallmark of their playing style. The Pumas repaid the initial debt, by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park, and emerged as one of the better modern rugby nations, thanks largely to the talents of this Durban schoolmaster.[1]"


After the promise made by Junior Springbok manager JF Louw at the end of a 12-game tour to Argentina in 1959 – ‘I will do everything to ensure we invite you to tour our country’ – there were concerns about the strength of Argentinian rugby. South African Rugby Board president Danie Craven sent coach Izak van Heerden to help the Pumas prepare and they repaid the favour by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park.

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JW 7 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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