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<blockquote data-quote="Melhor Time" data-source="post: 289477"><p>Mike Blair would be ideally suited to playing Argentina. A shame that he is therefore injured. I like the Scottish back three very much but am not so convinced of the centres. I do think Graeme Morrison is very underrated but he did make too many knock-on´s against the Wallabies. Carins is Scotland´s top 13 so its great to see him starting. Tiesi will start for Argentina and he is maybe the most underrated Argentina player in the World. He is very dangerous and with a full strength Argentina should be able to combine very well. So, I am interested in seeing how Cairns does against him. I did like Grove´s performance at 13 vs Australia so will focus heavilly on how he does at 12, probably vs Rodriguez. Great to see Thom Evans starting. He is a great player with huge potential. </p><p></p><p>The forwards look to be much like an English pack with a solid front five and a huge backrow. I think it will be tough for the backrow to get the better of Argentina though. Lobbe is playing so well and should be up against the slowest back row of the tour and certainly the least rated. If he can play well again it should be crucial to his teams chances. I cannot understand why Jason White is on the bench and not starting this match. I would go for him at 6 and Strokosch at 7, which has the makings of a perfect combination to play against Argentina. </p><p></p><p>It looks like Argentina are altering their game plan for this match and will rotate a number of players. Mario Ledesma is out for personal reasons which may not be a bad thing as he was not so good vs Wales or England. Good, but not fast enough around the park. Roncero has not been used as the loosehead prop ion training this week so far. Instead it has been Marcos Ayerza who is probably the better scrumager. Certainly in the GP he is very noteworthy. In place of Ledesma Toulouse´s Alberto Vernet Basulado has been training at hooker and will start with Scelzo retaining his spot at tighthead prop. Finally it looks like the giant and underused second rower, Manuel Carizza (Biarritz) will start alongside Albacete in the second row and Campos in the backrow. Two changes which should have happened vs Wales. But Tomás Leonardi is in doubt for the game. A shame as he is one of the youngsters on his first tour to shine. </p><p></p><p>The mising wingers have not recovered yet either. Both Camacho and Amorisino remain out of action. It looks like Comuzzi has been dropped and will be repalced by Fede Martin Aramburu, a player I am not too keen on at all. Lalanne has taken back the 9 spot in the other change at training thus far. </p><p></p><p>So the team being used in training is: 1 Ayerza, 2 Basualdo, 3 Scelzo, 4 Carizza, 5 Albacete, 6 -----, 7 Campos, 8 Lobbe, 9 Lalanne, 10 Fernandez, 11 Aramburu, 12 Rodriguez, 13 Tiesi, 14 Borges, 15 Agulla. </p><p></p><p>Scotland will tour Argentina for two tests in June 2010. This test will be very interesting as a viewing point for that tour because it is the last chance for these young Pumas players to play before then. They are playing for places that should be taken back from the injured players who amount to over 10 certainties in the squad. </p><p></p><p>Sure, Scotland defeated Australia but they hardly threatened did they? I was watching the game on my tv yelling encouragement for the Scot´s but really they didn´t do so much with ball in hand. It worked as the conditions were poor and Australia clealy messed up in their planning for the match in this regard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Melhor Time, post: 289477"] Mike Blair would be ideally suited to playing Argentina. A shame that he is therefore injured. I like the Scottish back three very much but am not so convinced of the centres. I do think Graeme Morrison is very underrated but he did make too many knock-on´s against the Wallabies. Carins is Scotland´s top 13 so its great to see him starting. Tiesi will start for Argentina and he is maybe the most underrated Argentina player in the World. He is very dangerous and with a full strength Argentina should be able to combine very well. So, I am interested in seeing how Cairns does against him. I did like Grove´s performance at 13 vs Australia so will focus heavilly on how he does at 12, probably vs Rodriguez. Great to see Thom Evans starting. He is a great player with huge potential. The forwards look to be much like an English pack with a solid front five and a huge backrow. I think it will be tough for the backrow to get the better of Argentina though. Lobbe is playing so well and should be up against the slowest back row of the tour and certainly the least rated. If he can play well again it should be crucial to his teams chances. I cannot understand why Jason White is on the bench and not starting this match. I would go for him at 6 and Strokosch at 7, which has the makings of a perfect combination to play against Argentina. It looks like Argentina are altering their game plan for this match and will rotate a number of players. Mario Ledesma is out for personal reasons which may not be a bad thing as he was not so good vs Wales or England. Good, but not fast enough around the park. Roncero has not been used as the loosehead prop ion training this week so far. Instead it has been Marcos Ayerza who is probably the better scrumager. Certainly in the GP he is very noteworthy. In place of Ledesma Toulouse´s Alberto Vernet Basulado has been training at hooker and will start with Scelzo retaining his spot at tighthead prop. Finally it looks like the giant and underused second rower, Manuel Carizza (Biarritz) will start alongside Albacete in the second row and Campos in the backrow. Two changes which should have happened vs Wales. But Tomás Leonardi is in doubt for the game. A shame as he is one of the youngsters on his first tour to shine. The mising wingers have not recovered yet either. Both Camacho and Amorisino remain out of action. It looks like Comuzzi has been dropped and will be repalced by Fede Martin Aramburu, a player I am not too keen on at all. Lalanne has taken back the 9 spot in the other change at training thus far. So the team being used in training is: 1 Ayerza, 2 Basualdo, 3 Scelzo, 4 Carizza, 5 Albacete, 6 -----, 7 Campos, 8 Lobbe, 9 Lalanne, 10 Fernandez, 11 Aramburu, 12 Rodriguez, 13 Tiesi, 14 Borges, 15 Agulla. Scotland will tour Argentina for two tests in June 2010. This test will be very interesting as a viewing point for that tour because it is the last chance for these young Pumas players to play before then. They are playing for places that should be taken back from the injured players who amount to over 10 certainties in the squad. Sure, Scotland defeated Australia but they hardly threatened did they? I was watching the game on my tv yelling encouragement for the Scot´s but really they didn´t do so much with ball in hand. It worked as the conditions were poor and Australia clealy messed up in their planning for the match in this regard. [/QUOTE]
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