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Giorgi Tsutskiridze quitte le Stade français après six saisons

Par Francisco Isaac
LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE - 27 SEPTEMBRE : Giorgi Tsutskiridze (Géorgie) lors d'une séance d'entraînement à l'Apivia Parc le 27 septembre 2023 à La Rochelle, France. (Photo par Levan Verdzeuli/Getty Images)

L’international géorgien Giorgi Tsutskiridze rejoindra le Black Lion pour les deux prochaines saisons, après avoir passé six ans en France avec le Stade Français.

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Il a rejoint sa première équipe en France, le Stade Aurillacois, en 2018, où il a rapidement eu un impact significatif, jouant un rôle clé pour le club de Pro D2 pendant quatre saisons, avant de déménager à Paris à l’été 2022.

À 27 ans, le joueur a eu peu de temps de jeu avec l’équipe parisienne. La décision de rentrer en Géorgie s’est donc avérée judicieuse, lui permettant de se battre pour une place de titulaire dans l’équipe dirigée par Richard Cockerill.

Avec 36 sélections et six essais, Tsutskiridze a fait ses débuts en Coupe du Monde de Rugby en 2023 et a contribué à la victoire des Lelos dans le Rugby Europe Championship à sept reprises.

À quelques mois du début de la saison de la Super Cup de Rugby Europe, la franchise géorgienne Black Lion annoncera dans les prochains jours trois autres recrutements, trois autres transfuges depuis la France : Vladimer Chachanidze (US Nevers – Pro D2), Guga Ghaniashvili (FC Grenoble – Pro D2), et Vasil Kakovin (Stade Français – Top14).

Le pilier gauche Vasil Kakovin, qui a joué pour le Stade toulousain, le CA Brive, le Racing 92 et le Stade français, a disputé son dernier match avec la Géorgie en 2016 et peut être de nouveau sélectionnable pour la tournée d’été des Lelos.

Le deuxième-ligne Lado Chachanidze, 24 ans, met fin à son aventure en France, son contrat n’ayant pas été prolongé par l’Union Sportive Olympique Nivernaise, repartant dans son pays d’origine.

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Enfin, Guga Ghaniashvili est l’un des plus talentueux espoirs de la première ligne géorgienne, mais il quitte Grenoble sans avoir pu faire ses débuts dans l’équipe senior.

Les triples vainqueurs de la Rugby Europe Super Cup visent une quatrième campagne et espèrent ajouter quelques victoires majeures en Challenge Cup, après avoir battu les Scarlets en décembre 2023.

Cet article publié à l’origine en anglais sur RugbyPass.com a été adapté par Willy Billiard.

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JW 7 minutes ago
It's time to stop hating on Damian McKenzie, the best 10 in the Championship

My bad, one real miss isn't that bad though. Dmac's obviously got a lot more to his game, he arguably does too much work for the team covering as a full back, taking the contestables and counter attacking, but he's only been playing 10 for two years, and maybe in his youth. It shows in my opinion, and this is where the criticism is laid, and will only been resolved over time. Albornoz is as described in the previous article ranking him higher than Dmac, that BS is replying to, a true ten. He's been at it his whole career, and has already gone through this transition period of find out what is required from a 10 at the top level. In my opinion this is what really counts above this 'all-round' advantage that you want to give him, especially with the criticism being laid on him.


Again, he is simply putting his own opinion forward after others had commented on him compared to, not only their 10's, but how well Argentina and South Africa are playing in general. That is the volume of criticism laid on McKenzies feet, which is the article I think criticisms are more worth of being placed. At least Ben is comparing apples with apples. I also suggest you watching the English games to get a better perspective of how well he can play in varying games. He might not have looked completely assured in those games (his first at getting a run at 10) but he executed superbly and hardly made a mistake.

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JW 1 hour ago
It's time to stop hating on Damian McKenzie, the best 10 in the Championship

NZ pulled a couple of very good kick chase games off last year. The second half in Auckland against the boks I remember. Most were around halfway (just on their side) I think, were I agree, this year for the boks for instance that is mostly on their own 40m line (or more towards their own line). Even between those two success', I'd say a 10 meter difference in the area they want to land them. They seemed to stop using the tactic last year after Jordan got carded.


I think they have always preferred to give their opponents a chance to run the ball back at them, yes. What is being see is that it's not successful these days (mostly because other teams are much more confident playing like NZ these days), and the kick chase is being critised as inaccurate. I'm not buying that, at least not yet. Beauden certainly didn't achieve anything better did he?


Yeah, interesting. I'm not really sure what number best reflects what I like, but on review I do see the number increasing for runs. The games they were in control, England series and the first SA test, they were 1:6 or under. The game at Eden Park in the pouring rain they showed the ability to control the game by foot at 1:4 (1:8, like you say, the previous week).


Really interesting. I'm not going to even begin to give a cause for that, they weren't behind in the Eden Park loss, but only had 4 22 entries. They may have lost structure towards the end but it could also have just been the change at 9 to Ratima that changed the kicking dynamic game to game.


I've heard a few grand but obviously that could be in anything. Yeah I think they'd give a quote based on what you use it for?

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