France Rugby World Cup: France advantage ahead as Autumn thrillers augur well for World Cup

Posted by Xchange Tickets on November 28th, 2022

France Rugby World Cup: France, Ireland, and reigning winners South Africa are the leading contenders, but multiple former winners New Zealand and Australia are established, tournament performers. The French have yet to win the World Cup, having lost three finals. And when they staged the 2007 edition, Les Bleus were twice beaten by Argentina as the Pumas over third.

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France, however, is now more sensitively resilient under Coach Fabien Galthie, but still with plenty of traditional attacking, although even a gifted squad would be hampered were star half-backs Antoine Dupont and Romain Ntamack to be hurt.

'Not perfect

France's year-ending 35-17 defeat of Japan was their 13th successive Test victory, a sequence including a 2022 Six Nations Grand Slam and fine wins this month over Australia and South Africa.

"It's not perfect, we have to work more and continue to do what we did this Autumn," said France No 8 Gregory Alldritt.

"(We must) keep our feet on the ground by not thinking we're something we're not."

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South Africa, without several first-select players for a match outside of the Autumn window, still ended the year with a complete 27-13 win over England, their well-beaten adversaries in the 2019 Rugby World Cup final in Japan, at Twickenham on Saturday.

Emerging wing Kurt-Lee Arendse scored the seventh try in as many Tests, with a gifted back division given a chance to shine by a characteristically strong Springbok pack.

"It is not that much of a difference but we are just seeing opportunities which we didn't in the past," said South Africa captain Siya Kolisi.

Ireland's 13-10 win over Australia this month destined them to become the first team since England in 2002 to defeat the All Blacks, the Springboks, and the Wallabies in a calendar year.To know more about France Vs New Zealand Tickets click here.

England went on to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup but Ireland has yet to make a semi-final.

But an 'ugly' win over Australia, reached without veteran fly-half Jonathan Sexton, prompted Ireland coach Andy Farrell to say: "We found a way and that's what good sides do when they're not at their best."

England, skippered by Farrell's son, Owen, had a poor November, their only win coming against an outmuscled Japan.

They were beaten first-up by World Cup pool adversaries Argentina and were well behind New Zealand before, from 19 points down with 10 minutes left, snatching an unlikely 25-25 draw.

Yet if opposite Argentina results in France, they could walk a similar path to the final as they did Japan, where England beat Australia and New Zealand in the neighborhood and semi-finals correspondingly.

Jones' 'imperfect' plan

England coach Eddie Jones, for whom 2019 was his third participation in a World Cup final, insisted after Saturday's match: "I've got a plan for how England can win the World Cup, but it doesn't go in a perfect line."

As for New Zealand, their draw with England sealed a year where Coach Ian Foster almost lost his job following overthrows by Ireland and Argentina.

"We played some great rugby and in our mind, we should have walked away with a win and we didn't get it in that last 10 (minutes)," said Foster, who earlier in November nearly oversaw the All Blacks' first loss to Scotland.

Constancy remains an issue for Argentina, their 30-29 win over England followed by a 20-13 defeat by Wales.

Australia endured a brutal autumn timetable of five Tests in as many weeks,

Australia endured a brutal autumn timetable of five Tests in as many weeks, including a surprise loss to Italy, and a raft of injuries meant the Wallabies writhed to field a Matchday 23 against Wales.

Yet they still came from 34-13 down after 58 minutes to score 26 unanswered points for an extraordinary 39-34 win on Saturday.

"I guess we could have lost all five or won all five, that's the sort of tour it's been," said Australia coach Dave Rennie.

For Wales, another Cardiff collapse came conventional after their shock 13-12 loss to Georgia and meant they had won just three of 12 Tests this year, with Coach Wayne Pivac facing an uncertain future.

Habosi predictable to leave for France after RWC 2023

Swire Shipping Fijian Drua robust winger, Vinaya “The Bossman” Habosi is predictable to join Racing 92 after the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

Habosi who is supposed to have signed a lucrative deal with the top French side has been in form and has caught the attention of many top teams all over the world.

When asked about his departure, Drua coach Mick Byrne says Habosi would be a big loss after his breakout season for the Drua and his confidence that they can unveil more Habosis in the future.

Meanwhile, Byrne named his 38-member team for the 2023 Shop N Save Super Rugby today with the inclusion of 5 new players and 12 development players.

The Swire Delivery Fijian Drua will open their 2023 Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific against Moana Pasifika on Saturday, February 25th at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland.

Their first home match in Fiji will be against defending champions, the Crusaders, on 11th March 2023 in Lautoka.

France Rugby World Cup rocked by bullying indictments

The first bombshell has released on the 2023 Rugby World Cup, with the intelligence of alleged ‘bullying’ of staff. World Rugby said in a statement that it was “concerned” by the reports of allegations that the bests of the France 2023 World Cup organizing group created a ‘toxic environment in which staff was verbally ill-treated and overworked. To know more about France Vs Namibia Tickets click here.

French newspaper L’Equipe said it spoke to the staff of the Groupement internet Community France 2023, who worked at the Paris HQs and they described a culture of fear and “management by terror”.

At the center of the claims were France’s 2023 Rugby World Cup chief Claude Atcher and his chief of staff Marie Houzot.

World Rugby reacted with a court declaration saying it was “concerned” about allegations of the working conditions within the organizing committee.

“World Rugby is concerned by media intelligence about alleged working conditions within the France 2023 organizing group,” read the statement. “The well-being of the rugby family is supreme and World Rugby has formally raised the allegations with the Board of the France 2023 Organising Committee and the FFR.

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“We note that the matter is being considered by the France 2023 Ethics Committee and we welcome the French Sports Ministry’s call for a comprehensive investigation to be undertaken by the labor office.

“It would be inappropriate to comment further until the outcome of these ongoing investigations.”

The French Ministry of Sports also spoke out and is set to launch a study.

Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra announced that she had mentioned the matter to the Labor Inspectorate, after having “read the worrying rudiments reported by the newspaper The Team relating to the social climate, labor relations and the organization of the GIP France 2023 teams, in charge of the organization of the Rugby World Cup“.

“We note that the matter is being considered by the France 2023 Ethics Committee and we welcome the French Sports Ministry’s call for a comprehensive investigation to be undertaken by the labor office,” World Rugby said in a statement.

 “It would be inappropriate to comment further until the outcome of these ongoing investigations.”

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