Conrad. I understand there's a language barrier, but wouldn't common sense guide you that if some user puts quotation marks around a word, he means some kind of tongue-in-cheek effect, maybe something phonetic ?...
anyways: I sure hope Argentina starts finding solutions for those summer tests...the way things are going, sending Puma C squads, it's going to decimate their cumulative records against other nations. To think they put 40 on France just 4 summers ago; they've come a long way. Having sides casually come over to put 50 on them and then go back home with inflated confidence does nobody any good...and it's degrading, so far. The 2012 side still had some decency in them, they beat Italy and beat France once. But the side last year against England was just ridiculous..
Right now, the concern of UAR and Argentine rugby is the next WC and our franchise in Super Rugby 2016. For that we need to develop players. That is, our Tier 2 or 3 players turning to Tier 1 players.
Many things conspire against it, we have lost many good players who have retired. Now we have less Tier 1 players in Europe, for example: after the third place finish in 2007, the French made more rigorous requirements for hiring Argie players. Now French employ few Argie players and many SANZAR's players.
We have a group of 50-60 young players, inexperienced at international level but with much skill and great future. Many of them will be on the next WC and on our Super Rugby franchise, then we have to give international experience to them.
We are in the process of developing players. If we are playing with our best 15 players always, then our kids will never get international experience and when players like Fernandez Lobbe or Juan Martin Hernandez retire, we'll have a lot of kids without international experience.
This process is important because it's something that never made the Argentine rugby, so that the Pumas after WC 2007 wasn't successful because always played a group of 25 players, the betters players. And then the children reached the international level with little experience. Now we have more players, our starting XV is weaker, it's true, but we have a wider group of players, if the UAR make the right decisions, we'll have an interesting participation in the Super Rugby 2016.
The objectives of the UAR: Next WC and Super Rugby 2016, everything else will be experiments to try to get the best way to those 2 competitions. We don't have players or money to achieve success this year, we are in a process of transition, looking to the future. We must make the right decisions for a good participation in the next WC and Super Rugby 2016.