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L'Italie a tenu bon jusqu'au bout en Irlande

Les Italiennes se congratulent suite à leur victoire en Irlande, lors de la 2e journée du Tournoi des Six Nations 2024 (Photo by Federugby/Federugby via Getty Images).

Quel fin de match ! En clôture de la 2e journée du Tournoi des Six Nations, l’Italie a résisté au retour de l’Irlande pour signer sa première victoire dans le Tournoi, bonus offensif à la clé (21-27).

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Entre deux équipes battues lors de la journée inaugurale, les Azzurre ont infligé une 7e défaite de rang dans la compétition aux Irlandaises, qui ont pourtant dominé les débats.

Ces dernières ont même eu l’occasion d’arracher la victoire, ce qui n’aurait peut-être pas été immérité vu la volonté de jouer affichée, mais un ultime ballon arraché au sol par Beatrice Veronese dans ses 22 m a mis fin à la remontée verte.

Une action symbolique de l’après-midi vécue par les Irlandaises à Dublin, ce dimanche. Dominatrices, volontaires, mais bien trop inefficaces dans la zone de vérité. Tout l’inverse d’une équipe d’Italie qui a capitalisé chaque entrée dans les 22 adverses ou presque.

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Le début de match montrait la volonté irlandaise de déployer du jeu et une possession frôlant les 90% durant le premier quart d’heure. Ça payait rapidement, avec un essai de pénalité couplé à un carton jaune adressé à Vittoria Ostuni Minuzzi.

Mais sans paniquer, l’Italie s’appliquait à bien défendre, à provoquer des pertes de balle et des faute irlandaises (sept en-avant et sept pénalités à la demi-heure de jeu), et piquait dès qu’elle en avait l’occasion.

C’est d’abord la talonneuse Vittoria Vecchini qui marquait au ras (7-5, 25e) pour la première incursion italienne dans les 22 irlandais. Puis Valeria Fedrighi concluait une action partie d’un nouveau cadeau irlandais (7-12, 34e).

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A la différence des locales, qui délaissaient les pénalités tentables pour préférer des pénaltouches infructueuses, Beatrice Rigoni ajoutait trois points avant la pause, atteinte sur le score de 15-7 pour les visiteuses.

On repartait sur les mêmes bases, avec des Italiennes réduites à défendre et des Irlandaises multipliant les temps de jeu proche de l’en-but des Transalpines. Et comme en première période, un raté irlandais précédait un essai italien.

La relance incroyable d’Alyssa D’Inca

Ce coup-ci, c’est Beibhinn Parsons qui ne captait pas la passe sur son aile, alors que la voie était libre devant elle 54e). Un ballon récupéré bonifié par une course incroyable d’Alyssa D’Inca, relayée par ses avants dont Vecchini qui s’offrait un doublé (7-22, 58e).

Les jeunes Irlandaises (9 sélections de moyenne dans le XV de départ) faisaient preuve de caractère en marquant sur ballon porté peu après (14-22, 62e). Mais l’Italie restait sereine, même quand le 4e essai, celui du bonus offensif lui était refusé pour un en-avant de passe. Il venait quelques minutes plus tard sur une jolie action au large conclue par l’ailière Aura Muzzo (14-27, 69e).

Cela semblait cuit pour l’Irlande quand, à la 76e, Beibhinn Parsons se voyait encore refuser l’entrée dans l’en-but d’un plaquage spectaculaire, alors qu’Aoife Wafer l’avait mise sur orbite.

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Le baroud d’honneur irlandais sera justement récompensé par le premier essai de Katie Corrigan, sur interception (21-27, 79e). Suffisant pour décrocher un point de bonus défensif. Mais pour arracher la victoire, il aurait fallu que l’action finale aille au bout…

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GrahamVF 18 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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