Joe Schmidt favori pour entraîner l’Australie
Rugby Australia (RA) s’apprête à franchir une première étape importante dans le recrutement du prochain sélectionneur des Wallabies en nommant son nouveau responsable de la haute performance.
Selon le Sydney Morning Herald, la fédération australienne de rugby s’apprête en effet à recruter Peter Horne à ce poste, l’accord étant sur le point d’être finalisé.
« Les dernières négociations sont encore en cours, mais une annonce devrait être faite au cours de la semaine prochaine », indique le journal.
« Le recrutement de Horne est considéré comme un bon signe pour le rugby australien, compte tenu de sa grande expérience dans la gestion de programmes de haute performance dans le domaine du rugby depuis près de 20 ans. »
Les atouts de Peter Horne
Après une année noire au cours de laquelle l’Australie a été éliminée dès la phase de poule de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023 pour la première fois de son histoire, Rugby Australia cherche désormais à mettre en place des personnes capables de faire avancer l’organisation et Horne pourrait jouer un rôle important à cet égard.
Il travaille avec World Rugby depuis 2015, d’abord en tant que manager général de la haute performance avant de devenir directeur de la haute performance en 2021.
Horne a contribué à façonner les compétitions, les structures de haute performance et les parcours dans les pays en développement au cours de son mandat au sein de World Rugby. Son engagement vis à vis des nations émergentes du rugby a ainsi permis d’intégrer les Fiji Drua et les Moana Pasifika au Super Rugby, et a contribué aux récents succès du Chili, des Fidji, de la Géorgie et du Portugal lors de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby.
Le directeur de la performance de l’Irish Rugby Football Union, David Nucifora, a également été approché, mais il n’était pas intéressé par ce poste.
Néanmoins, Nucifora quittera l’IRFU en 2024 pour retourner en Australie et, selon le SMH, il pourrait devenir consultant de la fédération australienne.
Le terrain préparé pour Joe Schmidt ?
L’une des nouvelles fonctions de Peter Horne sera de contribuer à la désignation du successeur d’Eddie Jones au poste de sélectionneur des Wallabies.
Il serait proche de Joe Schmidt depuis leur passage à World Rugby lorsque celui-ci était directeur du rugby et de la haute performance jusqu’en 2021. Par conséquent, le Néo-Zélandais pourrait devenir l’un des principaux candidats à la succession d’Eddie Jones.
De même, Schmidt a travaillé au côté de Nucifora pendant cinq ans en Irlande, ce qui renforcera les liens si l’ancien entraîneur des Brumbies rejoint Rugby Australia en tant que consultant.
Le palmarès de Schmidt
Schmidt a entraîné l’Irlande entre 2014 et 2019, les aidant à remporter trois Tournois des Six Nations et un Grand Chelem.
Bien qu’ils aient finalement échoué au stade des quarts de finale lors de deux Coupes du Monde de Rugby, l’homme de 58 ans a contribué à améliorer les résultats du pays.
L’Irlande a battu les All Blacks pour la première fois de son histoire pendant son mandat, puis a réitéré cet exploit lors de la série de fin d’année 2018.
Après son départ du poste de sélectionneur de l’Irlande, il a rejoint World Rugby avant de devenir « sélectionneur indépendant » des All Blacks en 2022, avant de prendre en charge l’attaque, poste qu’il a occupé jusqu’à la fin de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023.
Avec l’objectif de boucler le dossier avant Noël, Rugby Australia prévoit que le nouveau directeur de la haute performance jouera un rôle central dans le remodelage du paysage du rugby en Australie. La collaboration potentielle entre Peter Horne et Joe Schmidt pourrait marquer le début d’une nouvelle ère pour le rugby australien, avec la promesse de performances accrues et d’un sens aigu de la stratégie sur la scène internationale.
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Self proclaimed expert/pundit Andy Goode and his very personal views on referees…Why recalling them in such an article as if he were an undisputed authority on the subject ? Only because fellow writer ?
1 Go to commentsLate growth spurts are a common problem over here. I’m well over 30, and I just started having a growth spurt too. Could be a world class prop soon.
1 Go to commentsas much as the challenge cup is a bit of a nothing competition, winning it would still mean something. last year it was won by toulon, who are now something like 4th in the top 14? The year before it was won by Lyon a season before they finished 3rd in the league. The year before that the final was contested by Montpellier and Leicester - 12 months before they both became domestic champions. That should give Gloucester fans some hope.
1 Go to commentsgreat article - although I can’t help wonder whether the more relevant debate over coming years will be between Ford and Fin Smith!
3 Go to commentsMaking Scott Barrett captain might be a masterstroke….will calm him down & stop brain fades and also take pressure off Ardie, so he can just play his natural monster game. Lets see how that all pans out🧐
8 Go to commentsI’m surprised Scotland are planning to rest key players this summer - I don’t think any other tier 1 nation will be doing the same?
3 Go to commentsGreat analysis Brett and what a shame that RA haven't spent more on the tight five instead. BTW I see the latest 8-9 Combo has dropped, looking forward to that. It's incredible the amount of damage that Hamish and Eddie's egos did in such a short space of time. From memory Eddie drove the initial drive to poach league stars way back in the 00s, with community rugby paying the price in reduced funding. Australia went from 15% of its income being spent on community rugby in 2002 to 2.4% in 2015, sheer madness and look where they are now. Hamish reminds me of Scrappy Doo. Always mouthing off, spoiling for a fight with bigger dogs who'd eat him alive. Sadly RA didn't have a Scooby Doo to bail him out.
12 Go to comments*_“I love watching bone-shuddering tackles, brutal clear-outs, monster ball carries, and crushingly intense scrummaging. I love it. These things make my heart rate spike. These aren’t the only things I love about rugby, but I feel no need to pretend I don’t love them, or to apologise for loving them just in case someone thinks I shouldn’t.”_* beautifully put Flats🔥
3 Go to comments“Hidden comments” all over the place😂 Turlough’s been a busy little boy ey🤭
93 Go to commentsit’ll all be released in an autobiography a few years from now….. “Razor shafted me” blah blah blah. thinking of making Scott Barrett captain might be a good move. Could calm down his brain fades & make him an even better player for them
3 Go to commentsSadly he played far too many games too young. England and France really do need to look after their younger players better.
1 Go to commentsHaving finally been able to watch the first Chasing the Sun (thanks RugbyPass!) - because I refuse to pay DSTV's extortionate monthly fee in SA - after four years, it was amazing to see Mapimpi's story as well as seeing my personal hero, Rassie, breaking down when telling it. There _is_ hope for the country, but only once we've got rid of the crooked and incompetent ANC (and others) who have set out to destroy it. Viva Rassie, viva Kolisi viva rugby!
1 Go to commentsWhether true or not, all the best to you Sam Cane. A warrior of a player and a loyal servant to the ABs! Go get you some yen and have some fun.
3 Go to commentsThe game was changing too much with teams trying to role the dice drawing fouls. Would be better if scrums and the adjudicating problems were resolved but this is a good immediate fix.
42 Go to commentsLike many here I am encouraged by this post. Our forwards are where the real rewards and improvements must come from. With a 50/50 pack against any opposition, our backs could ensure more than 50% of the games will be won. We need Valetini at 6 and Cale at 8 to make the most or a good tight 5, McWright will add to the effectiveness of the pack BUT must get a very good tight 5 out there first.
121 Go to commentsThe key point I think that is missing is that if Joseph wants to guarantee a Lions spot, he really has to play wing in his first year. He is easily going to nail down whatever he wants to do, but with just half a season, how much of a factor he proves to be in the Lions series could be dictated by this initial choice of playing position.
12 Go to commentsthe game was 2 weeks before the challenge cup final. I really don’t believe they needed to rest that many players.
1 Go to commentsI really feel like neither of the Vunipolas is given the respect they deserve. I would have liked to see both of them get a few more caps than they have gotten in the past couple of years, but unfortunately the fact that they both peaked young has meant that for a number of years they have been perceived as disappointments. When they are both retired, in the cold light of day they will be recognised as two of the best players of their generation of any nation.
4 Go to commentsthis generation of saracens players could produce some really incredible coaches. When Farrell retires he could walk into any premiership team as a defence, attack, or kicking coach. Itoje could make it as a defence or a lineout coach, and Jamie George as a lineout or scrum coach. The problem the Vunipolas are going to have is that its not clear what their coaching speciality would be. Neither are great in the set piece, and while they were good in attack and defence, they were never tactical masterminds. Perhaps contact skills would be their ideal brief? Mako perhaps could work in strength & conditioning, but Billy has a bit of a reputation for not taking that side of the game seriously.
4 Go to commentsA very good player.We are finally getting some balance in our team. Plummer..Heem ..Lam a solid..experienced combo who take the sensible options consistently. Clarke was a grt impact of the bench option until Lam moved to 13 to replace an injured Reiko. Cotter is doing a grt job building his team. .
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