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La France se rapproche un peu plus de la 3e place mondiale
Le classement mondial World Rugby présenté par Capgemini indique que seules trois équipes ont amélioré leur classement à la suite des résultats de ce week-end.
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La France est l’équipe qui a gagné le plus de points avec 1,12 points attribués pour sa victoire difficile 20-16 à l’extérieur contre l’Ecosse.
Les Bleus affiche désormais un score de 87,39 points, ce qui ne leur permet pas de décoller de leur quatrième place, mais réduit l’écart avec la Nouvelle-Zélande à 2,41 points.
L’Ecosse a perdu le même nombre de points en s’inclinant, mais conserve la sixième position, tandis que l’Argentine est toujours à 2,65 points de la septième.
L’Angleterre, classée cinquième, n’a gagné que 0,08 point pour sa victoire tout aussi tendue sur le Pays de Galles (16-14), ce qui la place encore plus loin de la France. Le Pays de Galles conserve sa huitième place, toujours confortablement installé devant l’Australie.
Après deux rencontres extrêmement serrées, le seul match qui a eu lieu dimanche s’est soldé par une très nette victoire 36-0 de l’Irlande sur l’Italie. Aucun point n’a cependant été attribué aux champions en titre, en raison des 16,53 points et des neuf places qui séparent l’Irlande, deuxième, de l’Italie, onzième, avant la prise en compte de l’avantage du terrain.
Il n’y a pas eu non plus de mouvement de position à la suite des matchs de la deuxième journée du Rugby Europe Championship.
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Contrairement au week-end précédent, il n’y a pas eu de chocs, les favoris s’imposant dans les quatre matchs.
La Géorgie n’a reçu aucun point pour sa victoire 31-10 sur les Pays-Bas, tout comme le Portugal qui a gagné 54-7 contre la Pologne et l’Espagne qui a battu l’Allemagne 27-5.
En revanche, la Roumanie a bénéficié d’un gain marginal pour avoir battu l’équipe du moment, la Belgique.
La victoire 33-18 des Chênes sur les Diables Noirs, qui avaient battu le Portugal la semaine précédente, vaut 0,02 point mais, là encore, cela ne leur permet pas d’améliorer leur 20e place.
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Doxed himself. Great work Johnny. You are well suited to the Saders
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1 Go to commentsWho's Jarrad Hohepa?
1 Go to commentsSo let me get this straight. Say you have the dominant scrum. You are 99% sure you can go for a scrum pushover try on the line to win the game. The opposition knows it too. They give away a silly tap kick instead. You are now not allowed to scrum. This is ridiculous! *%@ing the game up as usual! The fact that the attacking teams are not allowed to scrum from a held up over the line is just as ridiculous. Really world rugby? Careful people might start a rebel league called True Rugby or Real Rugby.
72 Go to comments12 subs during a game? How has that been allowed to happen NB? I hate when the game goes in this monopolistic direction closing up shop, it just becomes non sport. Btw have you seen anything of how Liam Coltman was tracking for Lyon? He has just signed to return to Otago though we have a couple of young hookers developing here. He was a popular gentle natured character down here and I’m glad to see him back but maybe he will be a mentor primarily?
4 Go to commentsGreat breakdown and the global politics always confuses me a little. The southern hemisphere seems to be left out a bit but I wouldn’t even know where to start with fixing it. Club challenge could be a step in the right direction
4 Go to commentsSince he coached Free state, from that time onwards, I maintained he was the coach for the Boks. A nice, no nonsense guy with an excellent brain, who gets results.
11 Go to commentswell - they only played against 14 men and had the TMO team on their side - and still should have lost… so actually that makes sense.
32 Go to commentsSouthern hemisphere Rugby is exactly that, boring. Northern Hemisphere Rugby is soooo much more entertaining and better with better players.
2 Go to commentsIf he was to be cited for a dangerous behavior, then it’s natural that he should be. Then NTamack too, yes? And I’ll add a good whataboutism - Yeandle eye-gouging on Richie Arnold: not cited. Eye-gouging. Not high tackle. Eye-gouging. It was on French TV, with French TV directors.
5 Go to commentsReally poorly written rambling piece ..
4 Go to commentsIt was so boring
2 Go to commentspersonally I’d go with : 1. France 2. NZ 3. England 4. Ireland 5. Scotland
32 Go to commentsAndy everything becomes easier with experience therefor counting etc straight after a match becomes easier when you have 100+ caps vs 17 which is the experience you speak from.
160 Go to commentsGetting rid of the Dupont Law is a good thing and ought to have been done months ago! Officially getting rid of the croc roll is a good thing. The law about no scrums from a short arm is well intended in terms of speeding the game up but it’s an overreaction to a clever yet calculated gamble that could have blow up in South Africa’s face if they conceded a penalty from the scrum that was set after Willemse took claimed the mark in the World Cup QF.
72 Go to commentsRassie The GOAT
11 Go to commentsOf their 5 big matches in RWC Scotland and NZ were the easiest. They took a 12-3 lead against NZ and after the red decided it was best to hold the lead and take chances that came. None came and it was tight but they dug a lot deeper in the other two knock out matches. They had trounced NZ in Twickenham in a fixture that NZ must now regret. Psychology was clearly with SA in the final as a result.
32 Go to commentsMy favourite line/exchanges from Chasing the Sun 2. News headline: “SA. The last hurdle in ABs World Cup glory”. Something like that. “You’re all just a hurdle. A hop, skip and a jump”. Coming from Rassie and Jacque. Basically - nobody thinks you’re going to win. You’re just a pushover team. Nobody respects you. When the camera shows the players faces, you can see the effect. You can see the rev meters (die moer metertjies) firing up. Mitchell said he felt it prior to the 19 final. He said to Eddie watching the teams warming up that it was going to be a tough day at the office. Wave a red flag in front of South African, and you can expect a reaction. This is not unique - many teams rev themselves. And Bok teams in particular. With horrific consequences (discipline, poor thinking under pressure) because that’s the drawback to using emotion right? But what this Bok team does better than many since 2007 is channel the emotion and stay on task. Despite the emotion. Why, because while Rassie might play mind games - he talks about creating a safe environment. Listen to his recent honorary doctorate acceptance speech. While he uses psychology he creates psychological safety. He’s a damn fine coach. Can’t wait for Pretoria. It’s going to be a hummer.
11 Go to commentsWhat Rassie does for SA is big. It has helped people to unite and see we can win with the right people in place.
11 Go to commentsTerrible conditions for young players to express themselves just enjoy it guys. As a saffa great to see Ausie youth looking good. Wow SA have some great talent also.
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