Wales vs Argentina Millennium Stadium Sat 20th Aug 2.30pm BBC 1

theboss80

Wales Team

Lee Byrne; Leigh Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, George North; James Hook, Tavis Knoyle;

Paul James, Richard Hibbard, Adam Jones, Bradley Davies, Alun Wyn Jones, Dan Lydiate, Martyn Williams, Ryan Jones (captain)

REPLACEMENTS: Huw Bennett, Ryan Bevington, Andy Powell, Justin Tipuric, Lloyd Williams, Stephen Jones, Aled Brew


After a great win against England last weekend Warren Gatland has made nine changes for the visit of the Pumas. A win will give the Welsh momentum ahead of their clash with South Africa in September. With Gatland stating there are still places up for grabs on the plane Martyn Williams who turns 36 in two weeks will earn his 99th cap on Saturday.

Cant find a Pumas line up yet so if anybody gets it please post it up.

boardieboardie

15 Martin Rodriguez, 14 Horacio Agulla, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Santiago Fernandez, 11 Gonzalo Camacho, 10 Felipe Contepomi (c), 9 Nicolas Vergallo, 8 Juan Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 6 Julio Farias Cabello, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Juan Figallo, 2 Mario Ledesma, 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Replacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Martin Scelzo, 18 Mariano Galarza, 19 Alejandro Campos, 20 Alfredo Lalanne, 21 Nicolas Sanchez, 22 Juan Imhoff.

Not bad. I would think maybe slightly better backs will give them the edge over Scotland come their world cup match.

CatFromHue

The Welsh 4-8 look pretty good not a lot of creativity in the centres though.

Big game for Halfpenny with North now starting his third friendly in a row it looks like he is odds on for a starting spot in the World Cup so it's between Halfpenny and Williams for the other spot.

Don't know a few on the Argentinian team but there is some good players in the pack.

If Barkley, Beattie, and Brown were the killer B's what are the two Juans and Julio then?

theboss80

Ryan Jones and Stephen Jones both out of game.

Wales: L Byrne (Clermont Auvergne); L Halfpenny (Cardiff Blues), J Davies (Scarlets), J Roberts (Cardiff Blues), G North (Scarlets); J Hook (Perpignan), T Knoyle (Scarlets);

P James (Ospreys), R Hibbard (Ospreys), A Jones (Ospreys), B Davies (Cardiff Blues), A-W Jones (Ospreys), D Lydiate (Newport Gwent Dragons), M Williams (Cardiff Blues, capt), A Powell (Sale).

Replacements: H Bennett (Ospreys), R Bevington (Ospreys), J Thomas (Ospreys), J Tipuric (Ospreys), L Williams (Cardiff Blues), S Jones (Scarlets), A Brew (Newport Gwent Dragons).

Argentina: Martin Rodriguez; Horacio Agulla, Marcelo Bosch, Santiago Fernandez, Gonzalo Camacho; Felipe Contepomi (capt), Nicolas Vergallo;

Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma, Juan Figallo, Manuel Carizza, Patricio Albacete, Julio Farias Cabello, Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Juan Fernandez Lobbe.

thomond2006

No cover at 10 for Wales, dunno who would slot in there if Hook gets hurt.

theboss80

Watching the build up I had a little laugh that Andy Powell would bring up GOLF to Tom Shanklin considering it wasn't that long ago he and a buggy trip made all the headlines:D

theboss80

Great defense by the Pumas so far.

Stev_o

Is Eddie Butler calling Leagizimon Samoan or something?

barbarians

Wales starting to cut loose now.

TouchingVirus

Great try there, good step by North but what were the Argies doing...

blackdog2

bad 3 minutes for argentina!

GiftofGab

Come on Wales, I've money on Wales -9, I regretted it as soon as I put it on but I'm pretty happy at half time

B0X

What's the score? (I'm in work )

CIARAN_BOYLE

B0X wrote: »

What's the score? (I'm in work )

14-3 Welsh lead

barbarians

B0X wrote: »

What's the score? (I'm in work )

Hook for Wales just scored a penalty to make it 17-3 after 45 minutes.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I'm getting worried about my argentina +10 bet now

I need argentina to come back big time

theboss80

What a boring game , Pumas given up now and Wales not very clinical

CIARAN_BOYLE

20-3 now and Lobbe in the bin for 10

Bogsnorkler

Poite doesn't have a clue.

Truly an awful referee.

TouchingVirus

Welsh fans boo the conversion, but 25-13 is how it stands after a hard fought for try by Argentina. Only 2 minutes left though

Monty Burnz

Thought Argentina weren't great. Offered nothing at all in the backline. Good confidence boost for Wales though.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I wonder if Wales took the final kick in order to push for a 15 points lead to cause a larger move in the world rankings?

They will be move to 6th if we draw or lose today I think.

barbarians

Some boring game, Argentina were terrible.

Digifriendly

barbarians wrote: »

Some boring game, Argentina were terrible.

I disagree it was boring but agree that Argentina weren't great. Wales though have some serious talent coming through the ranks and it bodes well for future.