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Les Anglaises en balade contre l'Irlande

Avec les trois essais marqués contre l'Irlande, Ellie Kildunne totalise neuf essais en quatre matchs dans le Tournoi 2024 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images).

Et de 28 ! L’Angleterre a atomisé l’Irlande, hier à Twickenham, et signé un 28e succès consécutif dans le Tournoi des Six Nations (88-10), dont elle est quintuple tenante du titre.

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Synthèse du match

0
Coups de pied de pénalité
1
14
Essais
1
9
Transformations
0
0
Drops
0
160
Courses avec ballon
93
24
Franchissements
0
12
Turnovers perdus
11
3
Turnovers gagnés
3

Les Red Roses, tellement supérieures, ont étalé toute la panoplie de leur jeu au cours de ce match en forme de galop d’entraînement, une semaine avant le match que tout le monde attend.

Si les Bleues battent le pays de Galles ce dimanche, ce France – Angleterre du 27 avril sera en effet une véritable finale. Gaëlle Mignot et David Ortiz, les deux sélectionneurs de l’équipe de France, ont dû constater devant leur télé que la mission serait ardue, tant les Anglaises se sont baladées face à l’Irlande.

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Toujours aussi conquérantes devant, les joueuses de John Mitchell ont parfaitement alterné jeu au ras et jeu au large, scorant de toutes les manières possibles : 14 essais au total, dont trois pour l’ailière Abby Dow, et trois pour l’arrière Ellie Kildunne, qui en totalise neuf en quatre matchs.

Avec la N.10 Holly Aitchinson dans un fauteuil, elles avaient le bonus offensif en poche dès la 19e minute, enchaînant les offloads, les percées monumentales, les raffuts ravageurs tout au long de la partie.

Entre la puissance d’une Hannah Botterman, la vista d’une Megan Jones et les cannes d’une Ellie Kildunne, les Anglaises disposaient de bien trop d’armes pour les jeunes Irlandaises (une seule joueuse à plus de 20 sélections au coup d’envoi). Prises en vitesse, dépassées en puissance, elles écopaient comme elles le pouvaient, mais rataient  un nombre affolant de plaquages.

Défense

132
Tentatives de plaquages
168
6
Plaquages manqués
63
96%
% de plaquages réussis
73%

Offensivement, les occasions étaient rares pour les visiteuses. Leur volonté de jouer à la main, même depuis leur camp, se heurtait à leurs difficultés à tenir le ballon, à perforer la ligne défensive blanche ou à capter les jeux au pied anglais (trois en-avant pour l’arrière Lauren Delany, remplacée à la mi-temps).

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Si les Irlandaises revenaient du vestiaire avec un regain d’agressivité, leur permettant de glaner un essai de pénalité (56e), les Red Roses ont continué d’afficher leur sérénité, même sans la capitaine Marlie Packer et la demi de mêlée titulaire Natasha Hunt, sorties précocement. Même à 14, suite au carton jaune adressé à Lucy Packer (54e), elles ont marqué deux essais (dont celui du triplé pour l’ailière Abby Dow).

Elles déroulaient jusqu’au coup de sifflet final, faisant finalement mieux, si c’était possible, après la pause (huit essais, contre six en première période).

Maigre consolation pour l’Irlande, grâce à la pénalité bottée par O’Brien (24e) et l’essai de pénalité en deuxième période, elle Irlande ne termine pas « fanny » dans cette partie. Ce qui n’était pas arrivé depuis 2019.

Quant à l’Angleterre, elle a parfaitement préparé la rencontre face à la France, si ce n’est le carton jaune reçu. Avec deux rouges et trois jaunes en quatre rencontres, l’indiscipline constitue l’une des seules failles de la cuirasse anglaise.

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Womens Six Nations

P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
England Womens
3
3
0
0
15
2
France Womens
3
3
0
0
14
3
Ireland Womens
3
1
2
0
6
4
Italy Womens
3
1
2
0
5
5
Scotland Womens
3
1
2
0
4
6
Wales Womens
3
0
3
0
1

 

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GrahamVF 13 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 6 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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