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Quels mouvements de la 4e journée du Six Nations au classement mondial
Seule une place et 0,70 point séparent en effet l’Italie, sixième, de l’Écosse, septième. Les visiteuses savent qu’une répétition de la victoire 29-21 de l’année dernière à Édimbourg leur permettrait de devenir la mieux classée des deux équipes.
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L’Écosse n’a pas battu les Azzurre en Italie depuis leur victoire 43-15 à Trévise en 1999 et cela reste leur seule victoire à l’extérieur dans ce duel – sans tenir compte de ceux joués sur terrain neutre en France et en Espagne (11 joués, 1 victoire, 1 nul, 9 défaites). Deux défaites au stade Sergio Lanfranchi sont incluses dans cette série.
Ce stade a néanmoins des souvenirs positifs pour l’Écosse, qui y a battu l’Irlande 20-18 en septembre 2021 pour confirmer sa place dans le Tournoi Final de Qualification de la Coupe du Monde Rugby féminin 2021 (TFQ). Elle avait ensuite remporté le TFQ pour se qualifier pour la Nouvelle-Zélande 2021.
D’un point de vue réaliste, l’Écosse doit seulement éviter la défaite pour ravir la sixième place mondiale à l’Italie. Ce n’est qu’en cas de victoire du Pays de Galles sur la France avec plus de 15 points d’avance qu’un match nul ne sera pas suffisant. Dans ce scénario, le Pays de Galles grimpera à la sixième position, l’Écosse restera septième et l’Italie perdra deux places pour se retrouver huitième.
Le Pays de Galles n’a pas battu la France depuis sa victoire 10-8 à Neath en février 2016 et a glissé vers une défaite 39-14 lors de la rencontre de l’année dernière à Grenoble.
L’équipe de Ioan Cunnigham a pour l’instant perdu ses trois rencontres en 2024, mais si elle fait mentir les pronos et perturbe les Bleues et que le match à Parme ne se termine pas sur une impasse, le Pays de Galles grimpera d’une place pour atteindre la septième position.
Quant à l’Irlande, elle remplacera les États-Unis à la neuvième place si elle évite la défaite contre l’Angleterre à Twickenham. La huitième place est possible en cas de victoire et d’échec du Pays de Galles face à la France.
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L’Angleterre restera en tête du classement même si elle subit une rare défaite à Twickenham. Mais l’écart de 5,62 points qui les sépare de la Nouvelle-Zélande, deuxième, pourrait être réduit de trois points, tandis que la France passerait derrière le Canada à la quatrième place si elle subissait sa première défaite de la compétition.
Les deux principaux protagonistes du titre ne peuvent pas gagner de points supplémentaires ce week-end car ils jouent contre des équipes dont le classement est nettement inférieur. En revanche, pour l’Italie, les points offerts en cas de victoire sur l’Écosse ne seront pas suffisants pour permettre aux Azzurre de rattraper l’Australie, qui occupe la cinquième place.
L’Angleterre est en tête du classement du Tournoi des Six Nations féminin 2024 avec un maximum de 15 points sur 15 après trois victoires bonifiées, tandis que la France est à un point derrière, à la deuxième place. L’Irlande occupe actuellement la troisième place qualificative européenne réservée pour le WXV 1 au Canada, ce qui lui permettrait également d’assurer sa place à Angleterre 2025.
Les quatrième et cinquième places – l’Italie et l’Écosse, pour l’instant – seront qualifiées pour le WXV 2 en Afrique du Sud, et grâce à la campagne triomphale de l’Irlande dans le WXV 3 2023, elles seront rejointes par une troisième équipe européenne.
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L’identité de cette nation sera déterminée par un barrage entre l’équipe qui terminera dernière du classement du Tournoi des Six Nations féminin 2024 – si rien ne change, le Pays de Galles – et l’Espagne, vainqueur du Rugby Europe Championship 2024. Le vainqueur du barrage se qualifiera pour le WXV 2 et le perdant pour le WXV 3 à Dubaï.
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Less modern South African males predictably triggered.
10 Go to commentsMy heart is with Quins, but the head is convinced Toulouse have too much. Ntamack is back, his timing and wisdom has been missed.
1 Go to commentsWow, what a starting line up for the Sharks) Tasty up front,kremer vs Tshituka or venter …fiery ,,Lavannini ,,will he knobble etzebeth? Biggest game for belleau?
1 Go to commentsIt was rubbish to watch, Blues weren’t even present. Did what they had to do, nothing more. Should be better next week against canes.
1 Go to commentsI’ve just noticed that this match has an all-French refereeing team. Surely a game like this ought to have a neutral ref? Although looking at the BBC preview of the Saints game, Raynal is also down as reffing that - so there may be some confusion about who is reffing what.
1 Go to commentsIf Havili can play anywhere in the back line, why not first 5. #10.
11 Go to commentsThe dressing room had already left for their summer break before they ran out in Dublin that year, and that’s on the coach. Franco Smith has undoubtedly made progress, particularly their maul, developing squad players and increasing squad depth. And against a very tight budget too. That said they were too lightweight last year and got found out against both Toulon and Munster in consecutive games. Better this season so far but they’ve developed something of a slow start habit occasionally, most notably losing at home to Northampton who played them at their own game. Play offs will ultimately show whether there has been tangible progress on last year, or not…!
2 Go to commentsAustralian Rugby has been a disaster, by not incorporating learning from previous successful campaigns. QLD Reds 2011 - Waratahs 2014. Players, coaches and administrators appoint there representatives for scheduled meetings, organisation’s agreement’s assessments and correspondence. This why a unified Rugby Union under one entity works. Every Rugby nation has taken that path. Was most difficult in the Northern hemisphere with over 100 years of club rugby before the game become professional. Took a lot of humility for those unions to eventually work together.
7 Go to commentsThough Wilson’s sacking was pretty brutal, it wasn’t just down to that Leinster game; Glasgow had a lot of 2nd half collapses that season, in the URC and Europe, and only just scraped into the playoffs. Franco Smith has definitely been an improvement, some players are delivering far more than they did under Wilson.
2 Go to commentsjesus - that front 5!
1 Go to commentsShould be an absolute cracker of a game! Will be great to see DuPont & Ntamack in tandem once again🔥
1 Go to commentsBest team ever…. To have played? These guys are still pressure chokers. Came nowhere when it counted. What a joke
81 Go to commentsMusk defends anonymous terrorism, fascism, threats against individuals and children etc etc But a Rugby club account….lock ‘em up!!!
1 Go to commentsActually the era defining moment came a few years earlier. February 2002 to be precise, when Michael D Higgins as finance minister at the time introduced his sports persons tax relief bill to the dial. As the politicians of the day stated “It seems to be another daft K Club frolic born in Kildare amongst the well-paid professional jockeys with whom the Minister plays golf” and that the scheme represented “a savage uncaring vision of Ireland and one that should be condemned”. The irfu and Leinster would be nowhere near the position they are in today without this key component of the finances.
5 Go to commentsIt is crystal clear that people who make such threats on line should be tried and imprisoned. Those with responsibility in social media companies who don’t facilitate this should be convicted. In real life, I have free speech to approach someone like Reinach and verbally threaten him. I am risking a conviction or a slap but I could do it. In the old days, If someone anonymously threatened someone by letter the police would ask and use evidence from the postal system. Unlike the Post, social media companies have complete instant and legal access to the content in social media. They make money from the data, billions. Yet, they turn a blind eye to terrorism, Nazi-ism and industrial levels of threats against individuals including their address and childrens schools being published online all from ananoymous accounts not real people. They claim free speech. Free speech for anonymous trolls/voilent thugs threatening people under false names? The fault is with the perps but also social media companies who think anonymous personas posting death threats constitutes free speech.
2 Go to commentsSo if this ain’t the best Irish team ever then who exactly is? I don’t remember any other Irish team being this good & winning a series in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Yes I may rip them often for 8 X QF RWC exits & twice not even making it to the QF, but they’re a damn good team who many think can only improve, including me!
81 Go to commentsNot a squeek out of Leinster for weeks about this match. So quiet. The first team have been quitely building for this encounter under Nienaber’s direction. All fresh, all highly motivated. They are expecting a season’s best performance from Northhampton. They will match that. They will be fresher and apparently they will have 80,000 out of the 83,000 shouting for them. I do expect Northhampton to turn up big time. Not to be missed. On a tangent it is evident how the loss of a few Premiership teams has in some respect helped other Premiership teams and England. More quality over less teams makes the teams better, which has a knock on effect on England. Not the only factor contributing to England’s rise but one of them.
5 Go to commentsOur very own monster teddy bear Ox😍💪
17 Go to commentsThis is might be the most generalised, entitled, patronising, out-of-pocket cultural indictment on a group of people you’ll ever see on what is supposedly a sports publication. I can only assume the author is weak like a woman or homosexual. I’m feeling an incredible range of emotions but I am not quite sure how to express them. I might go beat up a hockey player - assuming that’s okay with Duane and the boys? 🙂
10 Go to commentsBest thing the Welsh clubs could do is apply to join Gallagher prem surely be more exciting matches for there support than they have now.
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