South Africa vs Argentina Kick off 1605

Pudsy33

15 Joaquin Tuculet
14. Horacio Agulla
13. Marcelo Bosch
12. Juan Martin Hernandez
11. Manuel Montero
10. Nicolas Sanchez
9. Martin Landajo
8. Juan Manuel Leguizamon
7. Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe
6. Pablo Matera
5. Tomas Lavanini
4. Mariano Galarza
3. Ramiro Herrera
2. Agustin Creevy
1. Marcos

15. Willie Le Roux
14. Cornal Hendricks
13. Damian De Allende
12. Jean De Villiers
11. Bryan Habana
10. Handre Pollard
9. Ruan Pienaar
8. Duane Vermeulen
7. Marcell Coetzee
6. Francois Louw
5. Lodewyk De Jager
4. Bakkies Botha
3. Jannie Du Plessis
2. Bismarck Du Plessis
1. Tendai Mtawarira

Hopefully Argentina can put up a fight. Keep an eyes put for Montero on the wing, he looked mighty impressive against Ireland in the summer.

Swiwi.

South Africa already down to 14 men, and Le Roux moving into 6. Interesting!

Pudsy33

I copied and pasted, blame rugby planet!

Kiwi_knock

Competition needs a strong Argentinian side, no use them being whipping boys.

Kiwi_knock

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Competition needs a strong Argentinian side, no use them being whipping boys.

Only pressed submit, and Piennar had gone over. Simple as you like

matthew8

Great start, lovely try.

bilston

Argentina have just been ruaned

Swiwi.

My stream goes briefly dead...and bang 5-0 to the Boks already.

CatFromHue

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Competition needs a strong Argentinian side, no use them being whipping boys.

Arg always end up playing 3 away games in their first 4 so the fixture list is against them too.

bilston

Pollard doesn't look remotely 20!

Kiwi_knock

Good response to going behind.

Swiwi.

Awful start from the 10 prodigé.

matthew8

2 restarts straight out and a crooked feed. Top quality stuff this.

matthew8

Rain pouring down hugely now. Should suit Argentina.

.ak

Unreal skill from la roux.

Kiwi_knock

Give the wingers some umbrellas

CardinalJ

This game has potential to be an award winning snooze fest.

matthew8

That must be an absolute nightmare to play in. Hopefully it clears up.

Kiwi_knock

Bad hands

CatFromHue

Almost a carbon copy of the SA try there for Arg but the winger dropped the ball.

CardinalJ

Sky Sports is free on UPC and Sky today for those streaming. 404 on UPC.

Swiwi.

More knock-ons than an U10 game. Might fire up the BBQ at half-time, and check out the score later...

P_1

It's a tad damp isn't it? Feel sorry for anyone who backed South Africa on the handicap!

sydneybound

I know the conditions are playing a major part but good seeing the pumas only 4 points behind after 45 mins, much better scoreline then last year!

Podge_irl

CatFromHue wrote: »

Arg always end up playing 3 away games in their first 4 so the fixture list is against them too.

The last two years their most winnable game has been the last one when their callow squad is broken. It's not doing them or the competition any favours.

sydneybound

Podge_irl wrote: »

The last two years their most winnable game has been the last one when their callow squad is broken. It's not doing them or the competition any favours.

So what competition you suggest they play in? Add them to the six nations? They should have regular competition.

mfceiling

Etzebeth looks like he would be comfortable playing in an Ulster jersey...

19543261

Enjoying the game so far.

CatFromHue

sydneybound wrote: »

So what competition you suggest they play in? Add them to the six nations? They should have regular competition.

The fixture list looks the exact same every year so why not just mix it up a bit instead.

SA also play away 3 in the first 4 games too but obviously have a bigger squad.

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Etzebeth looks like he would be comfortable playing in an Ulster jersey...

Why mfceiling, that's a fantastic observation you have made.

thomond2006

How is Lobbe playing?

awec

What's the attendance at this? There were empty seats earlier as well at the NZ game. Does it just not have enough interest or what?

sydneybound

What I'd give for a break away Argentina try right now!

Podge_irl

sydneybound wrote: »

So what competition you suggest they play in? Add them to the six nations? They should have regular competition.

Eh? They should be in the RC obviously. But I think they're disadvantaged by the schedule when they should be getting every advantage to even the playing field to make it a better comp.

awec

thomond2006 wrote: »

How is Lobbe playing?

Just led Argentina in a class maul defence. Drove the boks out of play.

CatFromHue

awec wrote: »

What's the attendance at this? There were empty seats earlier as well at the NZ game. Does it just not have enough interest or what?

I think it was close to 70K this morning.

Don't know about this game but it's ****e ****e weather against the weakest, by far, team in the comp.

19543261

And my heart sinks...

bilston

mfceiling wrote: »

Etzebeth looks like he would be comfortable playing in an Ulster jersey...

Aye, he'd be decent cover for Hendy