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Siya Kolisi : « Le coach et Antoine peuvent sortir la tête haute »

Captains Siya Kolisi of South Africa and Antoine Dupont of France interact at The Asahi Coin Toss prior to the Rugby World Cup France 2023 Quarter Final match between France and South Africa at Stade de France on October 15, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by David Ramos - World Rugby/World Rugby via Getty Images)

On a toujours connu Siya Kolisi extrêmement humble et soucieux de son prochain.

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Dans l’auditorium du Stade de France dimanche 15 octobre, le capitaine de l’Afrique du Sud, champion du monde en titre, a eu des mots très forts pour tenter de réconforter les Bleus après leur défaite 28-29 en quart de finale de leur Coupe du Monde de Rugby.

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« Le peuple français rend cette compétition incroyable », a-t-il insisté alors que quelques dizaines de minutes avant son équipe avait éliminé le XV de France de son propre mondial.

Une tristesse immense pour les Français mais que Siya Kolisi comprend au regard de l’immense succès populaire que rencontre l’évènement dans le pays.

La fierté d’un peuple

« Cette équipe se bâtit depuis quatre ans et on savait qu’il faudrait tout donner pour gagner contre cette super équipe. On l’a vu, leur leader s’est blessé mais il s’est battu pour revenir et jouer ce match. Il n’a pas quitté le terrain », a-t-il dit.

« Même quand la France ne joue pas, on entend l’hymne national tout le temps. C’est ce genre de truc qui fait qu’on savait que ce serait dur et que ce serait un vrai combat. « À l’entraînement, on a même mis des haut-parleurs pour reproduire ce son.

« Ils peuvent être fiers de l’équipe. On n’a gagné que d’un point et pour gagner, il fallait faire quelque chose d’unique. Le contre de Cheslin (sur Thomas Ramos), on ne voit pas ça tous les jours. C’était un gros match, très dur, et il fallait sortir une performance unique pour gagner. Le coach et Antoine peuvent sortir la tête haute. »

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Bob Salad II 37 minutes ago
Mick Cleary: 'England need to knock over one of the Big Two this autumn, as a bare minimum'

1. NZ has had time to play together and are likely more settled than England;

Coming off a recent Rugby Championship sure, but I'm not sure England have the selection problems the ABs have.

2. Especially after England's management problems - which must be disruptive (despite it being swept under the carpet or downplayed);

Or being overplayed. Bottom line is, Borthwick is still early in his England career as are his support staff. it's not as if the coaching team had been in place for 3 or 4 years.

3. NZ, despite their performances this year, have a very good pack which I think overall are better (but I guess this is subjective);

They do have a good pack and probably a better front 3, but England have great strength at lock and in the loose forwards, so I'm not sure I agree that the NZ 'pack' are better.

4. England won't have their 1st choice 9 & 10 available;

Marcus Smith is England's first choice 10 and he is available. Spencer - arguably England's #2 scrum half, will most likely start with Randall on the bench. Think there's more question marks over who's starting at 13 for England. Who's NZ first choice 10 these days?

5. On paper, the ABS have better and more experienced players across the squad.

In terms of caps, probably. But again, how long have this ABs team been playing together? Hasn't Robertson been trying new combinations out etc? Who's the starting 10/9 etc? Do the ABs have a settled lock pairing? This is hardly a vintage NZ squad and from what I've been reading, there seems to a fair amount of uncertainty within the NZ camp over who the best starting 15 currently are. In contrast, the bulk of Borthwick's side are - injuries aside, largely known.


One final point is tries scored. Across the last 6 games, NZ have scored 22 to England's 21. Pretty sure you'd have to trawl the record books pretty deeply to find a comparable data set.


And yeah, England are also at home.

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AJ 2 hours ago
Should Fiji and Japan be included in the rejigged Rugby Championship?

It's definitely time we see All blacks bring change to their calendar. AB's for last 15 years now have been versing mainly 'traditional' sides and been too conservative. Regularly seeing AB's do once off 4 year period or don't at all verse sides like Tonga, Samoa, Georgia, Japan, Uruguay and 8th Ranked Europe team. They should be playing all these sides every 4 years! Watching the AB's is boring watching likes of Ireland, Wales, France on regular basis! Lastly watching the AB's vs Springboks feels meaningless since they're both in Rugby Championship when they are competing with Australia & Argentina too.


If the AB's were versing Springboks outside of Rugby Championship every year, replacing it with Freedom Cup, Doesn't make sense to be playing it in Rugby Championship! AB's vs Springboks outside Rugby Championship makes more sense, would bring more meaning, would strengthen the rivalry between them, reach out new audiences, bring understanding of significance between them, become like State of Origin of rugby union and grow rugby game overall! Makes total sense if we swapped out Springboks(move to Six Nations) with Fiji in Rugby Championship. All Blacks calendar really needs to change too!


AB's top 'Marquee Players' (Beauden Barrett, TJ Perenara, Sam Cane, Ardie Savea, Rieko Ioane) should only be selected for matches against top 8 ranked teams and not feature in Rugby Championship which prevents next generation of players(Stephen Perofeta, Noah Hotham, Dalton Papalii, Samipeni Finau, Billy Proctor) properly developing to their true form on international level.

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