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Rudie van Vuuren, in 2003. I cheated, but I think we need to move on if we are to save this thread.

Rules say that only players who have made their debut in the last year can get it, and Cordero started playing tests in 2013. Often the Argentines play their first tests in the South American championship, so it is unlikely any Puma will ever get this award.

I think there will be a NH nominee. Don't know who, and he's sure not to win it, but nomination rules have been extremely sketchy so even if it takes nominating 10 players, they'll do it. So I think the fun part would be to predict the three or four likely winners, plus the token NH nominee. For...

Yes. I'm off now, up to you Bradsa.

What do Argentina's first matches in the '99, '03 and '07 have in common? (This one is fairly easy, but I'm going offline for a few days so won't be able to check answers.) Edit: just noticed there are a few possible answers, so let's exclude answers involving players (such as: xxxx participated...

George North

Ref will be über-cautious about Herera's brainfarts. Hope he's not a liability for the Pumas.

Kirwan? Don't know really, seems like the best guess.

I disagree with you. I admit, I took my view about "massification" as a given, and now I see it is not shared by everyone. I think that is a debate that I am not invited to participate in (as I'm not an Argentine myself), and anyway this wouldn't be the place (maybe a new thread?). Anyway...

Yeah, it was ESPN I was talking about. Last time I watched, Manuel Contepomi was just starting to appear on TV (he was still playing the URBA), so I couldn't comment on him. But this "friend" mentality has two huge drawbacks in my view: - No one dares to be critic. The Phelan tenure is a perfect...

My feeling is that the main rugby pundits in Argentina are too close to the team to be effective reporters. They're pretty condescending and unwilling to criticize their friends. Of course, that might have to do with them trying to get people interested in rugby, but apart from Diego Albanese...

That would make it way too long, and midweek games allow to fill press pages and to keep people talking about it. I really like midweek games, and I think this time round the schedule has been a lot more even between tier 1 and 2 sides than 2011.

Seriously? If you enjoy this, you should have a look at Fédérale 1 or 2 games, very much like this.

I would love to see more teams playing. I have personal ties with Chile, so I would really really love seeing them play a WC. But, trying to look at it from the outside, I don't think it is a good idea. The gap in level is just huge, and I think two representatives of "very low tiers" is enough...

Deleted. I was just feeding the troll, which I shouln't have (or "shouldn't of" as the troll himself would write).

I actually think France played quite well during some parts of the game, and wera awful during others. - They started well, which is unusual (0-30min) - Then allowed two tries probably out of complacency (30-35) - Then sort of recovered control, but without being convincing (35-40) - Then...

I think outside of the four nations involved, people would want to see France vs NZ and Ireland vs Argentina. But I think fans from all those, expect for the Irish, would prefer the opposite.

I was quite silly to expect anything from this match other than what happened. I'll take the win, especially the no injuries part. I'm particularly happy with the locks. They both played very well in my opinion, even if it's true that for bigger games there should be only one of them on the...

France is starting the weakest scrum you can make out of this squad. Atonio and Debaty are not known for their scrummaging, and the locks and flankers are a lot looser than Saturday's. I don't think this was a strategic choice, and it had to do just with as much rotation as possible, but France...

I think PSA made the right team choice. 2nd choicers will be motivated to show their worth, so excess confidence will not be a problem, and also given the short turnaround. I admit I don't know the romanian players (except the Castres prop), but I've seen the Stade Français third choicers give...