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Blessé, l'Anglais Sam Underhill pourrait manquer le Six Nations

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Sam Underhill (Angleterre) est aidé à quitter le terrain par des médecins après avoir subi une blessure à la jambe pendant le match des Autumn Nations Series 2024 entre l'Angleterre et le Japon à l'Allianz Stadium le 24 novembre 2024 à Londres, en Angleterre. (Photo par Patrick Khachfe/Getty Images)

La participation de l’Anglais Sam Underhill au Tournoi des Six Nations est compromise, la blessure à une cheville du troisième ligne aile contractée dimanche dernier nécessitant une opération, selon Bath, son club en Angleterre.

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Underhill s’est blessé au cours du match de Premiership contre Northampton, où il est entré en cours de jeu, conclu par une courte défaite de son équipe 35-34.

Selon un bulletin médical publié par le club de l’ouest de l’Angleterre, “Sam devra subir une opération afin de réparer une cheville à nouveau abimée”.

Underhill, 28 ans (40 sélections), n’avait pas été sélectionné pour le Mondial-2023 en France, avant de revenir en équipe d’Angleterre pour le Tournoi 2024 puis la tournée du XV de la Rose au Japon et en Nouvelle-Zélande l’été dernier.

Une blessure, à la cheville déjà, subie au cours de cette tournée et qui avait engendré une intervention chirurgicale, avait contrarié le début de saison de l’avant anglais. Celui-ci avait dû déclarer forfait pour les premiers test-matchs de novembre de l’Angleterre contre la Nouvelle-Zélande et l’Australie.

Revenu contre l’Afrique du sud et le Japon, il s’était illustré en inscrivant un essai dans chacun de ces deux matchs. Il est réputé également pour ses grosses qualités de plaqueur.

Sam Underhill rejoint le contingent des blessés anglais, qui comptait déjà dans ses rangs l’ailier Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (épaule démise) et l’arrière George Furbank (bras cassé).

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Steve Borthwick, le sélectionneur, qui doit annoncer son groupe pour le Tournoi mardi 14 janvier, a toutefois des motifs de satisfaction : le troisième ligne aile Ollie Chessum est sur le point d’effectuer son retour après une blessure à un genou, et le demi de mêlée Alex Mitchell est pleinement rétabli d’une blessure au cou.

L’Angleterre aura le 1er février, dans le cadre de la première journée du Tournoi, un déplacement très difficile à Dublin contre l’Irlande, lauréate des deux dernières éditions.

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JW 1 hour ago
How law changes are speeding up the game - but the scrum lags behind

so what's the point?

A deep question!


First, the point would be you wouldn't have a share of those penalities if you didn't choose good scrummers right.


So having incentive to scrummaging well gives more space in the field through having less mobile players.


This balance is what we always strive to come back to being the focus of any law change right.


So to bring that back to some of the points in this article, if changing the current 'offense' structure of scrums, to say not penalizing a team that's doing their utmost to hold up the scrum (allowing play to continue even if they did finally succumb to collapsing or w/e for example), how are we going to stop that from creating a situation were a coach can prioritize the open play abilities of their tight five, sacrificing pure scrummaging, because they won't be overly punished by having a weak scrum?


But to get back on topic, yes, that balance is too skewed, the prevalence has been too much/frequent.


At the highest level, with the best referees and most capable props, it can play out appealingly well. As you go down the levels, the coaching of tactics seems to remain high, but the ability of the players to adapt and hold their scrum up against that guy boring, or the skill of the ref in determining what the cause was and which of those two to penalize, quickly degrades the quality of the contest and spectacle imo (thank good european rugby left that phase behind!)


Personally I have some very drastic changes in mind for the game that easily remedy this prpblem (as they do for all circumstances), but the scope of them is too great to bring into this context (some I have brought in were applicable), and without them I can only resolve to come up with lots of 'finicky' like those here. It is easy to understand why there is reluctance in their uptake.


I also think it is very folly of WR to try and create this 'perfect' picture of simple laws that can be used to cover all aspects of the game, like 'a game to be played on your feet' etc, and not accept it needs lots of little unique laws like these. I'd be really happy to create some arbitrary advantage for the scrum victors (similar angle to yours), like if you can make your scrum go forward, that resets the offside line from being the ball to the back foot etc, so as to create a way where your scrum wins a foot be "5 meters back" from the scrum becomes 7, or not being able to advance forward past the offisde line (attack gets a free run at you somehow, or devide the field into segments and require certain numbers to remain in the other sgements (like the 30m circle/fielders behind square requirements in cricket). If you're defending and you go forward then not just is your 9 still allowed to harras the opposition but the backline can move up from the 5m line to the scrum line or something.


Make it a real mini game, take your solutions and making them all circumstantial. Having differences between quick ball or ball held in longer, being able to go forward, or being pushed backwards, even to where the scrum stops and the ref puts his arm out in your favour. Think of like a quick tap scenario, but where theres no tap. If the defending team collapses the scrum in honest attempt (even allow the attacking side to collapse it after gong forward) the ball can be picked up (by say the eight) who can run forward without being allowed to be tackled until he's past the back of the scrum for example. It's like a little mini picture of where the defence is scrambling back onside after a quick tap was taken.


The purpose/intent (of any such gimmick) is that it's going to be so much harder to stop his momentum, and subsequent tempo, that it's a really good advantage for having such a powerful scrum. No change of play to a lineout or blowing of the whistle needed.

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JW 2 hours ago
How law changes are speeding up the game - but the scrum lags behind

Very good, now we are getting somewhere (though you still didn't answer the question but as you're a South African I think we can all assume what the answer would be if you did lol)! Now let me ask you another question, and once you've answered that to yourself, you can ask yourself a followup question, to witch I'm intrigued to know the answer.


Well maybe more than a couple of questions, just to be clear. What exactly did this penalty stop you from doing the the first time that you want to try again? What was this offence that stopped you doing it? Then ask yourself how often would this occur in the game. Now, thinking about the regularity of it and compare it to how it was/would be used throughout the rest of the game (in cases other than the example you gave/didn't give for some unknown reason).


What sort of balance did you find?


Now, we don't want to complicate things further by bringing into the discussion points Bull raised like 'entirety' or 'replaced with a ruck', so instead I'll agree that if we use this article as a trigger to expanding our opinions/thoughts, why not allow a scrum to be reset if that is what they(you) want? Stopping the clock for it greatly removes the need to stop 5 minutes of scrum feeds happening. Fixing the law interpretations (not incorrectly rewarding the dominant team) and reducing the amount of offences that result in a penalty would greatly reduce the amount of repeat scrums in the first place. And now that refs a card happy, when a penalty offence is committed it's going to be far more likely it results in the loss of a player, then the loss of scrums completely and instead having a 15 on 13 advantage for the scrum dominant team to then run their opposition ragged. So why not take the scrum again (maybe you've already asked yourself that question by now)?


It will kind be like a Power Play in Hockey. Your outlook here is kind of going to depend on your understanding of what removing repeat scrums was put in place for, but I'm happy the need for it is gone in a new world order. As I've said on every discussion on this topic, scrums are great, it is just what they result in that hasn't been. Remove the real problem and scrum all you like. The All Blacks will love zapping that energy out of teams.

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