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Ex-England lock David Ribbans named Toulon captain in role reversal

Published: 5 September 2024 03:10 PDT
Updated: 5 September 2024 03:11 PDT

Toulon's South African lock David Ribbans reacts during to the French Top 14 rugby union match between Rugby Club Toulonnais (Toulon) and ASM Clermont Auvergne at Stade Mayol in Toulon, south-eastern France on June 2, 2024. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

Former England second-row David Ribbans has been named Toulon captain for the upcoming season alongside former France skipper Charles Ollivon.

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The 28-year-old has not even spent a year at the Top 14 outfit yet having joined after the 2023 World Cup, but found himself captaining his new side not long after arriving at the Stade Mayol last season. He has now officially been given the role alongside Ollivon, who captained Les Bleus between 2020 and 2021.

Life on the Cote d’Azur has started swimmingly for the ten-cap England international, who was rewarded with a two-year contract extension in June that will run until 2028- effectively putting an end to his international career.

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Ribbans will be reunited with two of his former England teammates Kyle Sinckler and Lewis Ludlam this season. Ribbans and Ludlam were also Northampton Saints teammates for six years before the lock’s exit.

In a reversal of roles in France, Ludlam will now serve under Ribbans having previously been his captain at Franklin’s Gardens.

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The English duo headline an extensive list of signings by the three-time European champions over the summer.

Toulon have a tricky start to their Top 14 season with a trip to the Stade Marcel de Flandre on Sunday to face La Rochelle. The match will be a replay of last season’s semi-final qualifier, which Ronan O’Gara’s side won.

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NoLongerARuck 16 minutes ago

Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

The thing about the All Blacks that I have found pleasing is that they built plenty of rucks and barely box kicked playing more off counter and transition in the first games this year and relied on lightning quick ball. Then against Ireland they didnt rely on width or counter but ground the Irish down with brutality and long sequences consisting of massive phase counts which ultimately broke the dam wall. Then they played a bunch of rubbish against the stormers in cape town and got schooled at the high ball and conceded plenty of technical penalties. Against the Sharks though they played more off 9, kicked long for the corners and won multiple 50-22’s. Love put in a shift in that game in total contrast to other performances. They also kicked more through Barrett and put several box kicks up off 9 when clearing. Then when they saw the Sharks tiring they ramped it up, played wide and scored plenty. The All Blacks are showing more and more adaptability, they are playing whats in front of them and building their game and its clear that they are moving away from the rigid structures implemented under Razor. The Springboks already have that in them, their performances in Wellington and Ireland were polar opposites, their performance against France and Italy showed how they can adapt to adversity. Thats what makes this series so interesting, one team is becoming better at adapting to change while the other is already so good at it. Will the All Blacks have done enough to challenge the Boks? Cant wait for next week

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NoLongerARuck 19 minutes ago

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Thats absolute rubbish. Taking a concept from another sport and adapting it to a totally different one requires significant alteration to the original principle as its being purpose built for a totally different set of rules and play. That takes innovation and original thinking. Pep Guardiola has taken tactics from handball, water polo, chess and from total football and other footballing concepts to create his own unique style of play. Is he a pirate too? He has revolutionised football so much so that every stat in the premiership has altered to his style of play over the past 10 years. He is widely recognised as a football revolutionary. When Japanese engineers famously took inspiration from the Kingfishers beak and head to redesign their trains to eliminate tunnel boom they had to engineer the train head, materials etc. So are they pirates too? Every scientific concept developed is based on previous concepts, just because you didnt have the first idea it doesnt mean that what you create is unoriginal. It still requires innovation and thought.

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Wayneo 20 minutes ago

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Bazzallina 21 minutes ago

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And he has the perfect amount of swag to make the Boks fans jealous we look cooler haha

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RD 32 minutes ago

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So it could be any of them? :)

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RD 34 minutes ago

Two starting debuts and two timely returns for All Blacks against Bulls

What has Parker done wrong ? He has more bulk and experience than Hannah!

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Bazzallina 34 minutes ago

Two starting debuts and two timely returns for All Blacks against Bulls

Rivez was excellent tonight Harkin last night was more bad than good his exit kicking was poor ( mind you was trying to take a lot in his shoulders ) but stil showed multiple flashes of that running game ..

I just think with Richie it was enough to warrant getting him over there whip him into shape at practice and throw him to the Lions in a week an a bit ..it’s a good investment and at the very least worth the punt there us akways going to be compromises

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Wayneo 35 minutes ago

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Key phrasolagy being “Smithy borrowed from the Los Angeles Lakers”

Basically stealing ideas of another team and then calling it your own, I think that’s called pirating is it not?

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Wayneo 40 minutes ago

Two starting debuts and two timely returns for All Blacks against Bulls

Fyi: The next two teams the ABs play are different to the Stormers and thrive on high pace rugby

If you have a bad day against either they will punish you just like the ABs do, so they're going to be 2 good games to watch

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NoLongerARuck 40 minutes ago

Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

What a load of nonsense. First of all when you train players to respond to whats in front of them you are training them. That means you are creating pitcures to which they will respond. Training rehearses scenarios so therefore what you are talking about is a preplanned response to a scenario. You are training players to be prepared for specific pictures and to create structure in what was previously unstructured situation. What is structure? well structure is when everyone sees the picture and responds in the same way. So if you see a tight forward in the chasing line and a fast back has that ball then attack that point and every other player knows that back will attack that point and starts to run support perhaps preparing for the offload or a breakdown. What Tsimba and Brown are doing are training players to create responses based on whats in front of them and not to play at default settings and thats exactly what Smith did so theres plenty of parrallels between the two whether you want to admit that or not

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Bazzallina 42 minutes ago

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No specifically test 1 if Dmac not right but saw him trotting around at practice and Cam and Jordan so think we will probs see the Ireland team trotted out again with naybe some changes in second and backrow mainly on bench

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Wayneo 44 minutes ago

Two starting debuts and two timely returns for All Blacks against Bulls

Mate, we have been out of SR 6 years playing in Europe not playing Mars so I don't know where you get your assessment from that SA teams don’t know anything about how you all play.

Also, do you not know that the current ABs blueprint is a copy and paste of Glasgow Warriors and Scotland blueprint?

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Ed the Duck 45 minutes ago

Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

Thriving in chaos doesn’t just happen by itself though Wayneo, it starts with analysing the default muscle memory of what players default to when the pressure and adrenaline kicks in, understanding what choices they might want to add to the repertoire and how all of this connects across the collective profiles of the team. In short, delivering success from chaos requires a pretty structured framework to train better and practise improvements.

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Bazzallina 49 minutes ago

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..Our beloved Bkack ferns 7s and the Oz girls right across the park are wicked but why I hate Maddi teoevtufully haha giver her an inch and she takes 100m to the bank the house the window to the wall

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Wayneo 50 minutes ago

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I know that, but I operate on a different plane than normal people.

I run complex simulations and predictive algorithms in my head and my fingers type out the results.

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