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On connaîtra dans les prochaines semaines qui sera la sixième équipe qui participera au World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024 suite à l’annonce du lancement de l’Oceania Rugby U20s Challenge.
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Disputé sur trois journées de matchs du 26 février au 6 mars, l’Oceania Rugby U20s Challenge réunira des équipes jeunes des Fidji, des Samoa et des Tonga, ainsi que les Moana Pasifika, la franchise du Super Rugby Pacific qui a accepté l’invitation de compléter l’affiche et d’accueillir l’événement.
Une place à prendre entre Samoa et Tonga
La nouvelle compétition servira de voie de qualification pour les Samoa et les Tonga en vue du World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024, qui se déroulera en Écosse du 2 au 17 juillet. Le vainqueur entre les deux adversaires du Pacifique lors de la deuxième manche, le 2 mars, se qualifiera en tant que représentant de l’Océanie pour cet événement majeur.
Les Fidji ne sont pas en lice pour une place dans le U20 Trophy car ils se trouvent déjà au niveau supérieur en 2024, dans la poule C du Championnat U20 World Rugby en Afrique du Sud.
« Ce sera un énorme coup de pouce pour l’avenir du rugby. Il s’agit de créer une véritable filière et d’offrir une scène à nos talents Pasifika prometteurs », a déclaré Leasiosiofaasisina Kevin Seni, responsable des filières pour Moana Pasifika.
« Oceania Rugby et Moana Pasifika invitent chaleureusement les fans de rugby du monde entier à assister à ce tournoi historique et à soutenir leurs équipes préférées. Avec une place convoitée pour le World Rugby U20 Trophy de 2024 à la clé, les enjeux sont élevés et l’action promet d’être tout simplement extraordinaire. »
Relancer la filière jeune dans le Pacifique
L’implication de Moana Pasifika est le fruit d’un partenariat stratégique visant à engager une nouvelle compétition jeune conçue pour relancer les programmes de formation des moins de 20 ans dans la région du Pacifique.
L’Oceania Rugby U20s Challenge offrira ainsi aux jeunes joueurs de toute la région du Pacifique la possibilité de progresser dans l’environnement professionnel d’élite de Moana Pasifika et de la Fijian Drua.
« Ce mélange unique d’athlétisme, de créativité et de fierté culturelle promet de mettre en valeur les meilleurs talents de rugby de notre région au sein d’un carrefour traditionnel pour les communautés Pasifika, la ville d’Auckland », a indiqué Frank Puletua, directeur général d’Oceania Rugby.
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« Oceania Rugby est fier de soutenir le développement et la croissance de nos jeunes athlètes, et nous avons hâte de voir plus de jeunes hommes et femmes passer à l’échelon supérieur pour participer à des compétitions d’élite grâce au programme U20s. »
Restera encore deux places à prendre
Cinq équipes ont déjà réservé leur place pour le World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024, à savoir l’Écosse, pays hôte, le Japon – l’équipe reléguée du Championnat U20 World Rugby 2023 – et les qualifiés régionaux, l’Uruguay (Amérique du Sud), les Pays-Bas (Europe) et Hongkong China (Asie).
Les Samoa sont deux fois vainqueurs du World Rugby U20 Trophy (2011 et 2016), tandis que les Tonga, qui ont terminé deuxièmes en 2014, aimeraient franchir un nouveau palier en Écosse.
Une fois le tournoi de qualification pour l’Océanie terminé, il restera deux places à pourvoir. Les détails du tournoi de qualification pour l’Afrique, le Trophée Barthés U20, et du tournoi de qualification pour l’Amérique du Nord entre les États-Unis et le Canada seront bientôt communiqués.
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My 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
74 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!
74 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? 🙂
9 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.
2 Go to commentsRugbyPass writers are useless! you guys should get a real job because you all suck at writing about rugby!!!
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