TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas

[MiketheSnow]

@Kirwan said in TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas:

Wallabies will win this fairly comfortably, IMO.

Lottery numbers please

[MiketheSnow]

Very enjoyable first half.

High tempo, plenty of attacking intent from both sides.

Rugby smarts (or lack thereof) Argentina's undoing.

Australian scrum looks impressive.

Oz 8 providing plenty of go forward.

If Australia had three players with Hooper's work rate and game awareness they'd be world beaters.

Cracking try despite poor final pass from Beale.

[MiketheSnow]

Fantastic Australian scrum again but terrible decision by Genia to kick the ball away.

[pukunui]

Might be a question for the Aussie rugby in general thread, and i hope no one takes this the wrong way, but do white guys not play rugby in Australia any more? Where are all the private school boys these days? AFL?

[Kirwan]

A lot of turnovers in this game

[Kirwan]

@pukunui similar to us in the 1970s with the Polynesian immigration?

[Kirwan]

Wallabies defence is taking care of the Pumas fairly easily.

[Kirwan]

Argie scrum is poor, really poor.

[Tim]

@Kirwan 2nd tier team. Might be better to get Fiji into the RC.

[MiketheSnow]

If Australia don't start playing smarter they could blow this.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas:

@Kirwan 2nd tier team. Might be better to get Fiji into the RC.

Yeah. It’s helpful to develop our B and C players though.

[Kirwan]

@MiketheSnow said in TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas:

If Australia don't start playing smarter they could blow this.

Lost a bit of structure for sure

[MiketheSnow]

Australia are not good enough to just defend this

[Kirwan]

Not the place or time to knock on

[Bones]

Argies have got to be about the worst team at converting simple chances. They fucked that overlap in the wallaby 22 also which was just catch and pass.

[Siam]

Surely a genuine rugby mystery: whatever happened to the Argie scrum?

[pukunui]

@Kirwan said in TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas:

@pukunui similar to us in the 1970s with the Polynesian immigration?

For sure there are heaps of Polynesians in Aust and have been for ages. There is just such a contrast to even 10 years ago. Has the private school system which traditionally produced most of the rugby players disappeared? Maybe those schools are packed with islanders on rugby scholarships now.

Not saying this is a bad thing but the change is just so obvious.

[Steven Harris]

After watching 2 test matches this evening..all I can say is ,that’s 160 minutes I will never get back..!

[Kirwan]

@Steven-Harris said in TRC: Wallabies vs Los Pumas:

After watching 2 test matches this evening..all I can say is ,that’s 160 minutes I will never get back..!

Yeah, wasn’t great was it?

Some interesting improvements from Aussie though. Back row looks good, look better at ten for the first hour.

[Machpants]

Whelp, Ozzie were pretty poor, but Arg were worse. A more entertaining game than the 'tits for handfest' that was Abs vs SA. Ozzie comfortably won, Arg looked pathetic.

This round of the RC will not have any NH teams quaking in their boots!

Final score:
Australia 16 Argentina 10

74 J. D. Bonilla
73 F. Isa
C. Lealiifano 50
C. Lealiifano 42
C. Lealiifano 32
R. Hodge 31
23 N. Sanchez
C. Lealiifano 10
1 Tries 1
1 Conversions 1
3 Penalty Goals 1
0 Field Goals 0