Pumas vs Australia

[Stargazer]

And then the Pumas put Koroibete on his back.

Half time: 31 - 7 to the Pumas. Well-deserved lead.

[antipodean]

Pumas look very good. Wallabies look like bunnies in the spotlight.

[Stargazer]

[raznomore]

possibly the best, most honest sentence from a sports presenter I have ever heard.

"Well George Gregan, Phil Kearns how do you polish that turd? " - Nick McArdle in his summation of the wobs.

[Kruse]

@raznomore said in Pumas vs Australia:

possibly the best, most honest sentence from a sports presenter I have ever heard.

"Well George Gregan, Phil Kearns how do you polish that turd? " - Nick McArdle in his summation of the wobs.

That was awesome

[Nepia]

Hahaha, Chieka doing his nut in the changing room. Not sure if that's actually going to help his team.

[Nepia]

Now the Wallabies are taking the Wallabies to the cleaners. Try off a charge down and now the homophobe in for a try.

31-21 to Pumas. Hmm, maybe I was wrong about Chieka doing his nut?

[Stargazer]

Aussies scoring two tries in a row. C'mon Pumas, play for 80 minutes.

[Stargazer]

Geez, and another one. The Pumas have fallen asleep. Stupid.

[antipodean]

Three tries in 10 minutes - different game now.

[booboo]

Some weird footy this morning

[Higgins]

Somehow Australis have clawed their way back to just being three points behind. That might just stymie my plans for the 2023 World Cup. I had not long penciled in my booking to stay at my mates family home in Rorotonga in expectation of ticking off one of the things on my bucket list ie to attend Australia's away World Cup qualifying match against the Cook Islands.

[jegga]

Heralds running a poll “ are the wallabies better than the blues?”

Hahahaha

[Nepia]

WTF, the Pumas just tried to run a ball out from behind their tryline - the 9 should have just kicked the bloody thing.

[Nepia]

Oz in again (probably a forward pass), but should have been penalised in the previous ruck where Genia held on with Pumas going for the ball.

[akan004]

@nepia Lucky to be awarded the try. Final pass was definitely forward.

[Machpants]

Those cracks are getting a good papering over in this half

[booboo]

YC for Latu.

4 mins ...

[akan004]

Argies are still as mentally weak as ever. Should never have lost that game after the first 40.

[hydro11]

Aussies were good value for the win. When they played sensibly, they carved the Argies up. The second half showed they are still very good with ball in hand. In the first half, they handed the Argies a few tries. Then they did short kicks which went too far and Argentina just kicked behind them. Those were the wrong tactics for altitude. When they got the tactics sorted out, Australia were too strong.

I look at the stats and don't see evidence that Argentina collapsed. Their set piece was good, they didn't make a tonne of errors and Australia conceded far more penalties. Argentina did miss tackles in the second half but that was because the Aussies ran it more. This was more of a great comeback than a serious implosion, although being 24 points up should be enough to overcome a great comeback regardless of the circumstances.