[2023 TRC] South Africa vs Argentina

[TRF_stormer2010]

Springbok team:

15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cheslin Kolbe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Duane Vermeulen (captain), 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Steven Kitshoff

Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Kwagga Smith, 20 RG Snyman, 21 Faf de Klerk , 22 Lukhanyo Am, 23 Damian Willemse

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Happy enough apart from at center. Would've liked to see Esterhuizen and Am as a combo outside of Williams and Libbok.

 

[saulan]

Agreed, feel the same. Really like the attack options in the backline, just not really sure on the centers. Loose forwards look decent and I'm intrigued to see how that lock pairing goes.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Argentina

15 Juan Cruz Mallia, 14 Mateo Carreras, 13 Lucio Cinti, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Santiago Carreras, 9 Lautaro Bazan Velez, 8 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 7 Santiago Grondona, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Tomas Lavanini, 4 Lucas Paulos, 3 Francisco Gomez Kodela, 2 Julian Montoya (captain), 1 Thomas Gallo

Substitutes: 16 Ignacio Ruiz, 17 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, 18 Joel Sclavi, 19 Pedro Rubiolo, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Gonzalo Bertranou, 22 Tomas Albornoz, 23 Matias Moroni

 

[saulan]

Such a shame where Ellis Park is located. This game should’ve been a sell out.

 

[saulan]

What is this random introduction of dignitaries in between the national anthems? Ugh

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Jeeze, welcome to the game #9

 

[Gavin]

Jeeze, welcome to the game #9

Somewhat similar to CJ Stander attempted charge down on Pat Lambie?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Somewhat similar to CJ Stander attempted charge down on Pat Lambie?

Yeah very similar,
Hope he's ok

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

Hope he is ok. Very unfortunate.

 

[Jaguares]

Etzebeth is playing at 14 lol

 

[Derpus]

Bok forwards utterly dominant. Argentina no chance.

 

[saulan]

No go forward, proceeds to take the scrum back 5 meters where it has come from…

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

England need this kind of half time show…

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

No song made for any World Cup has ever been good.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

No song made for any World Cup has ever been good.

Although I do admit it was butchered by Paloma.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

a Dios mío

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Can’t be missing those.

Edit: Pumas just seem to be running into a Bok brick wall.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

guys, is lifting in lineouts dead?

 

[Derpus]

Saffas being very cynical.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

We've milked two of those penalties at key moments. The boys are growing up!

 

[Derpus]

And that's game.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

jesus bloody christ. We are our own worst enemy. It's mind boggling.

 

[Derpus]

jesus bloody christ. We are our own worst enemy. It's mind boggling.

You had them on the ropes. Crazy. Rugby pretty much never goes against script though so oh well.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

I only support the pumas as an adopted team idk how you do this cruz.

 

[Jaguares]

Tryyyy!

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Finally for the Pumas!

Edit: shame the conversion was missed.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Why did they kick?!

Had numbers and then kicked so it was a straight footrace vs the fastest man on the pitch

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

You had them on the ropes. Crazy. Rugby pretty much never goes against script though so oh well.

That's precisely what made it so infuriating! Just lacked a bit more patience. We still had 15/20 mins. Absolutely NOT the time to throw everything but the sink at them given the score.

As a team you need ONE guy who can read the game and decide when it's the right time to go for a quick kill and when you need to wait and let the opponent bleed to death.
I like how Malia reads the game but something clearly gets lost in the chain or something.

 

[Jaguares]

Push push push!