[2014 TRC] Australia v Argentina in Gold Coast (13/09/2014)

[ruggabee]

Are gloves illegal these days? On wet days like this it's surprising seeing no one wearing them.

 

[austingtir]

Jeez what a crock of **** that penalty was australian prop clearly on his knees first!

 

[Tony Manx]

White line fever cost the Wallies there but surely will not be long................and another crocks of s**t!!!

 

[Jaguares]

Are gloves illegal these days? On wet days like this it's surprising seeing no one wearing them.

Yeah, Wobs need gloves

 

[Wakaloo]

Wallabies getting so many wasted chances! But what the hell is wrong with Pumas set piece today...? That line out

 

[RoosTah]

We've blown two certain tries and both Foley and Toomua are playing pretty poorly, but other than that I've been surprised by the Wallabies forwards.

 

[Wakaloo]

We've blown two certain tries and both Foley and Toomua are playing pretty poorly, but other than that I've been surprised by the Wallabies forwards.

Yes you've produced a lot, giving Argentina not even one chance to attack. I'm surprised the score is only 14-7 now.

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

Argentina have been very disappointing so far. There defence in general had been pretty good, but they've conceded a lot of stupid penalties.

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

Argentina are quite embarrassing sometimes...

 

[ruggabee]

Where's the Argentinian team that nearly beat SA? This is so poor.

 

[Jaguares]

Leguizamon, Hernandez and Slipper out...

 

[Tony Manx]

Argentina have been very disappointing so far. There defence in general had been pretty good, but they've conceded a lot of stupid penalties.

They have really done not a lot all series, other than play with huge heart and determination, and tonight find themselves 21 - 7 down against a pretty poor Wallabies team who have made so many mistakes to keep the Argies so close.

The final table of AB, SA, Aus and Arg was predictable at the start of the Championship and has certainly never looked like changing other than for a some minutes when Argentina showed how poor and off form the SA team they played in Argentina were only to gloriously fail!

To make it interesting and less predictable, perhaps, the other competitors should be able to pick the AB team before each game they play against them...................!!!

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

I did a quick calculation. Even if Aus beat Argentina by 100 000 000 they stay in 3rd. Just but still no changes in the raking positions this week; Aus 88.10, SA 88.23

Not sure what the media were on about; even is SA lost by more than 15 we'd still be ahead even if only by 0.04 ranking points, NZ are just so far ahead and Argentina so far behind.

 

[Jaguares]

Where's the Argentinian team that nearly beat SA? This is so poor.

I said: "Wallabies are better than Pumas and Boks..."

 

[RoosTah]

Good idea to bring Beale on - Toomua has done nothing all night.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Kurtley Beale on. Will we see more accuracy from him? I hope not. A 4 try bonus point would see Aus climb into 2nd on the RC log.

 

[ruggabee]

@conrad I'm not saying Argentina should be better than Australia, but I was expecting a much better performance than this.

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

The Springboks are clearly the second best team in the competition. It was only due to a poor referee and one awful mistake last week that allowed Australia to win. This Argentina team is clearly capable of beating all three of the other teams, they just seem to raise their game to slightly below whoever they are playing. If they instead picked one or two games to play to a high standard in they would have one or two wins. They are so much worse tonight than they were last week.

 

[ruggabee]

Damn damn damn.

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

God which dropkick missed that tackle on Phipps? There was no skill involved in that try, just abhorrent defence.

 

[austingtir]

I said: "Wallabies are better than Pumas and Boks..."

Wallabies are not better than the boks trust me on this. And I have no idea why the French turned up in the Argentina shirts today.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Too much to hope for for Arg to keep Aus tryless in the last 20?

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

Too much to hope for for Arg to keep Aus tryless in the last 20?

The issue is that Australia are just as likely to score from 70 metres out as they are from 10. Hopefully this try galvanises the Argentines.

 

[austingtir]

This Argentina performance really is unbelievable. Australia has been terrible as well if Argentina was anywhere near the level they showed against NZ and SA they'd be winning this match!

 

[ruggabee]

29-20 looks a lot more respectable. Still hoping for a comeback though.

 

[austingtir]

29-20 looks a lot more respectable. Still hoping for a comeback though.

Craziest thing is they could still win it if a miracle happened.


EDIT!!! WOW awesome try by the argies!!!

 

[Darwin]

Wow. Game on!

 

[TRF Mr Fish]

Argentina!!! Come on!!

The one area they've been consistently better tonight is kicking. (Whoops just jinxed it...)

At least the scrum is looking good now.

Edit: Argentina have looked poor at the kick offs, they need to clear the ball quicker instead of fluffing around in the 22.

 

[lynam1104]

Pumas very much in this

 

[RoosTah]

Credit where it's due - very good try from the Pumas and the Wallabies forwards are folding.