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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 425641" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>I'm sorry, but they will not be world champions, they play like a poor man's South Africa at the moment, really poor in November and against Scotland in 2010</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>And that 10-12 combination looks unlikely to be rekindled, and Hernández in all honesty the few times he did play for Racing-Métro last season he looked rusty and didn't reach top form, even if he does play he won't necessarily be on top form, you're hypothesizing that if he's there he will be straight back into top form</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>plus the Stade Français players from the Amlin Cup final, and Montpellier and Stade Français are the two biggest French bases for Pumas players, plus they were experimenting</p><p></p><p>not too much can be read into by the results there</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Also wasted possession attempting about three stupid missed long range drop goals</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree here, Argentina's backline was pathetic against Ireland, they just passed from one touchline to the other going nowhere until somebody (normally Bosch) dropped the ball, and they hardly scored many tries against France and England in their other matches either</p><p></p><p>the backline wasn't great when I saw it against Wales and Scotland back in 2009 too</p><p></p><p>the only match I can think of where the Pumas scored some good backline tries was against France in 2010 (which followed two other poor backline performances against Scotland). Melhor, can you tell me what went well in that match and why whatever did go well appears to have been a one off performance, and that form not been seen in the November tests 2009 against Scotland in 2010 or the November tests in 2010</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Roncero is still arguably the best scrummaging loosehead, did well last season whenever I saw him play, it's his penalty count that's the problem which could nudge Ayerza to start, but either way they're both going to be in the 22 and play so it doesn't really matter.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>I agree here, I've read some good reviews on Figuerola, who seems to have been a find for Brive, Phelan just needs to make sure Lalanne is nowhere near the team, really poor in those two Scotland matches in 2010</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't know why you are so confident Melhor that Argentina will beat Scotland, as I've said before on this forum that match will be tight and probably come down to penalties so the refereeing of the scrum will be crucial, if the referee (Mark Lawrence then) performs like he did in the Ireland match in November then Scotland should fancy their chances. And Chris Paterson misses few kicks so Contepomi will have to bring his kicking boots. Anyway you make it seem like they are assured of victory, when that will be really close and going by form Scotland defeated Argentina twice away from home so I would just favour Scotland at the minute. The referee for that match by the way will be Craig Joubert, don't know whether he's good or not but southern hemisphere refs tend to be more lenient on the struggling scrum than northern hemisphere which will be bad for the Pumas, but we'll wait and see</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 425641, member: 48703"] I'm sorry, but they will not be world champions, they play like a poor man's South Africa at the moment, really poor in November and against Scotland in 2010 And that 10-12 combination looks unlikely to be rekindled, and Hernández in all honesty the few times he did play for Racing-Métro last season he looked rusty and didn't reach top form, even if he does play he won't necessarily be on top form, you're hypothesizing that if he's there he will be straight back into top form plus the Stade Français players from the Amlin Cup final, and Montpellier and Stade Français are the two biggest French bases for Pumas players, plus they were experimenting not too much can be read into by the results there Also wasted possession attempting about three stupid missed long range drop goals I disagree here, Argentina's backline was pathetic against Ireland, they just passed from one touchline to the other going nowhere until somebody (normally Bosch) dropped the ball, and they hardly scored many tries against France and England in their other matches either the backline wasn't great when I saw it against Wales and Scotland back in 2009 too the only match I can think of where the Pumas scored some good backline tries was against France in 2010 (which followed two other poor backline performances against Scotland). Melhor, can you tell me what went well in that match and why whatever did go well appears to have been a one off performance, and that form not been seen in the November tests 2009 against Scotland in 2010 or the November tests in 2010 Roncero is still arguably the best scrummaging loosehead, did well last season whenever I saw him play, it's his penalty count that's the problem which could nudge Ayerza to start, but either way they're both going to be in the 22 and play so it doesn't really matter. I agree here, I've read some good reviews on Figuerola, who seems to have been a find for Brive, Phelan just needs to make sure Lalanne is nowhere near the team, really poor in those two Scotland matches in 2010 I don't know why you are so confident Melhor that Argentina will beat Scotland, as I've said before on this forum that match will be tight and probably come down to penalties so the refereeing of the scrum will be crucial, if the referee (Mark Lawrence then) performs like he did in the Ireland match in November then Scotland should fancy their chances. And Chris Paterson misses few kicks so Contepomi will have to bring his kicking boots. Anyway you make it seem like they are assured of victory, when that will be really close and going by form Scotland defeated Argentina twice away from home so I would just favour Scotland at the minute. The referee for that match by the way will be Craig Joubert, don't know whether he's good or not but southern hemisphere refs tend to be more lenient on the struggling scrum than northern hemisphere which will be bad for the Pumas, but we'll wait and see [/QUOTE]
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