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Pro D2

Un deuxième ex-Wallabie en Pro D2 la saison prochaine

Par Josh Raisey

Il y a 150 jours

Leicester's Joe Powell (Photo by Malcolm Couzens/Getty Images)

L’ancien demi de mêlée australien Joe Powell a signé un contrat de trois ans avec l’US Montauban en vue de la saison prochaine.

Le joueur de 30 ans qui compte quatre sélections avec les Wallabies (entre juin 2017 et juin 2018) a quitté les Leicester Tigers avec effet immédiat en janvier, n’ayant rejoint Welford Road qu’au début de la saison, à la suite de la disparition de son club précédent, les London Irish.

L’ancien numéro 9 des ACT Brumbies et des Melbourne Rebels croisera sur les terrains de la ProD2 son ancien partenaire australien Ned Hanigan la saison prochaine. Le troisième-ligne aile a accepté de rejoindre Provence Rugby en provenance des New South Wales Waratahs en mai.

Ned Hanigan a joué sous le même maillot des Wallabies que Powell, mais plus longtemps, totalisant 28 sélections entre janvier 2017 et novembre 2022.

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Le demi de mêlée international australien s'engage à Sapiac pour 3 saisons! ??
Joueur expérimenté passé par le Super Rugby, la PremierShip et le Top 14, Welcome Joe! ?#AllezSapiac #GreenArmy pic.twitter.com/G3fsiHV5Ii
— USM Sapiac (@UsmSapiacRugby) June 24, 2024

Provence Rugby a terminé en tête du classement de la ProD2 la saison dernière, mais n’a pas réussi à obtenir la promotion lors des play-offs. Montauban, quant à lui, a terminé avant-dernier du championnat et a été contraint d’affronter Narbonne, deuxième de Nationale, en barrage de relégation – un match qu’il a remporté 20-19 pour rester en ProD2 la saison prochaine.

Après le départ de Joe Powell de Welford Road en début d’année, le directeur général de Leicester, Richard Wilks, avait déclaré : « C’est toujours difficile de voir partir de bonnes personnes et ces deux garçons sont des personnes exceptionnelles et ils manqueront au club.

« Joe Powell n’était avec nous que depuis peu de temps et il n’est jamais facile d’arriver dans un environnement pour une courte période, mais Powelly travaillait comme un fou tous les jours et les gars aimaient l’avoir près d’eux. »

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RedWarrior 10 minutes ago

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Yep, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?

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Mark 21 minutes ago

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Totally agree, and with the Greenwood comment you have hit the nail on the head, England have never managed to replace Greenwood.

And although it's a simple analogy if you look at today's England side, how many of them would make a combined world xv?.

As you allude to, they are I'm afraid mediocre.

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Lisa Decker 23 minutes ago

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Werner 26 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

I dare say it's an "everyone against the ABs" scrapbook. Only time I've seen him give half a compliment is when he talks about other teams beating the Springboks. Even in this article he puts the Argentina win in NZ down to the ABs being bad rather than the Argentines playing well, which they have been doing all year round.

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AA 37 minutes ago

Fin Baxter wades into debate over the England losing streak

Agreed. Borthwick will have to write a new excuse book soon .

I have looked at the two world cup final teams from 2003 and 2020.

2003 team scored 187 tries between them in 389 caps

2020 team scored 113 tries between them in 473 caps. As you can see a huge disparity in scoring rate. Only Johnny May with 36 tries in 78 caps scored a higher amount of tries. Elliot Daly comes close but the rest are frankly very poor.

Farrell and Ford scored a pathetic 20 tries between them in a combined 210 caps.

There again , the 2003 team did have Wilko and Greenwood etc whereas 2020 team had Ford and Farrell .

So much people saying that Fords strength is of bringing others into the game .

Really. The figures totally disprove that notion .

It has been mentioned elsewhere that we have accepted mediocrity far too often and the figures would indicate that players are or have been picked far too often without performing .

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Alex 44 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

Not disputing that NZ are ahead of Eng. Also not saying Eng are unlucky (though clearly the tone of the article is not that the ABs were unlucky but that they 'should have' won). Your team are looking great and are on the up. I just felt that Pundits have argued Eng 'should have' won the first test against the ABs, when it's more nuanced than that, and very fine margins determine results that Eng didn't get right. Same applies, therefore, to NZ and other nations. Ben Smith though doesn't seem to see it that way. To be clear: I'm not saying I agree with the 'should haves', but more that I take issue with the phrasing.

Good to see your respect for other nations is so strong! Proper rugby fan you are!!!

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RedWarrior 48 minutes ago

Did Rassie Erasmus miss a trick with his latest South Africa squad?

GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.

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RedWarrior 51 minutes ago

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