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Marcus Smith sur le banc de l'Angleterre contre l'Italie

Marcus Smith à l'entraînement (Photo de David Rogers/Getty Images)

Marcus Smith sera sur le banc de l’Angleterre le dimanche 9 mars à l’Allianz Twickenham pour le match du Tournoi des Six Nations contre l’Italie. Il fait partie des trois changements apportés par Steve Borthwick à son équipe après la victoire contre l’Écosse.

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Les Anglais se sont imposés 16-15 à la faveur d’une transformation manquée par Finn Russell en fin de match. Borthwick a décidé d’intégrer Elliot Daly et Fraser Dingwall à son XV de départ, et de titulariser Jamie George au talon.

Les 35 joueurs de l’effectif sont aptes à jouer et le sélectionneur a décidé d’aligner Daly à l’arrière à la place de Smith. Il a également rappelé Dingwall pour sa première apparition en 13 mois, à la place d’Henry Slade.

L’Angleterre a été vivement critiquée après sa performance mitigée contre les Écossais, qui ont inscrit 3 essais contre un seul pour les Anglais. Pour parer à ce manque de créativité, Daly, auteur du premier essai lors de la victoire contre la France, et Dingwall, qui avait marqué un essai décisif contre le pays de Galles l’an dernier, sont alignés.

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Plus expérimenté au poste de n°15, Daly est récompensé de ses deux bonnes entrées en jeu pour le XV de la Rose

Il s’agit d’un nouveau rebondissement pour Marcus Smith, qui avait débuté en 10 huit matchs de rang avant de passer à l’arrière lors des courtes victoires contre la France et l’Écosse pour que Fin Smith passe à l’ouverture. Il débutera donc sur le banc aux côtés de Jack van Poortvielt, seul autre trois-quarts remplaçant.

Autre changement dans le XV de départ : George revient au talon pour sa 100e sélection et reprend son poste à la place de Luke Cowan-Dickie. Le joueur de 34 ans avait remplacé Owen Farrell comme capitaine avant le Tournoi 2024, avant de laisser ce statut à son coéquipier des Saracens, Maro Itoje, avant l’édition 2025.

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« C’est magnifique d’atteindre les 100 sélections. Cela illustre tout le talent de Jamie, mais aussi l’étendue de sa dévotion et de son talent. Il donne toujours tout sous le maillot de l’Angleterre. L’équipe ne pourrait être plus fière. »

L’Angleterre est troisième du classement avant ce match, à un point de la France et à quatre points de l’Irlande.

Le XV de départ de l’Angleterre contre l’Italie dimanche 9 mars (16h00)

Elliot Daly – Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Fraser Dingwall, Ollie Sleightholme – (o) Fin Smith, (m) Alex MitchellTom Willis, Ben Earl, Tom CurryOllie Chessum, Maro Itoje (cap.) – Will Stuart, Jamie George, Ellis Genge

Remplaçants : Luke Cowan-Dickie, Fin Baxter, Joe Heyes, Ted Hill, Chandler Cunningham-South, Ben Curry, Jack van Poortvliet, Marcus Smith

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RedWarriors 4 hours ago
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I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

But it paid off.

Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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