2020 Tri-Nations - Australia v Argentina (Round 4) - 21/11/2020

[Leonormous Boozer]

Argentina looking every bit that 5th-8th best team in the world this week, basically Ireland and Wales bar periods from 2016-2019 for both. Great one week against the 2nd/3rd best team in the world and totally flat the next, frustrating as a fan.
It'd be interesting if they could claw out a win though, it'd be as big for their development as last week if so.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Feels like whenever a team beats the all blacks it takes all the wind out of their sails the next week

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Feels like whenever a team beats the all blacks it takes all the wind out of their sails the next week

Only truly great teams back it up with an even more iconic win.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Insane kick,
Don't think I've ever seen one with that much hang time

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Scott sio is an absolutely awful scrummager. It's amazing he is still selected.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Here we go, this is gutsy

 

[Kiwiwomble]

all over and another draw, actually think that's fair, Aussie didn't do much more likely to score a try even with loads of possession

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Decent second half of rugby. Argentina showed serious composure to come back

 

[Derpus]

That was amazingly brainless.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

Our defence is good. Our set-pieces are "meh" at best. Our scrambling is pretty good but our offence is close to non-existent. We are just kicking the ball and expecting the opposition to make a mistake, which is fine, as long as you back it up with a lot of pressure, which we didn't really exert. We got lucky.

God I hate boffelli. He's not bad offensively but I'd rather defend with 14 guys and a cone. He plays as FB, I've been watching him play every week for years and i cant recall a single time he made a try-saving tackle. Not once.

Could they cite Matera for the hair-pulling? To be honest, they should. Unnecessary and stupid.

 

[The Seeker]

No tries. If you like 3 pointers then this was your night.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

To other things. Cant wait to see the stats. The territory must have been appallingly against us.
The bright side, if there is one, is that a sign of maturity/composure i look for in the teams i support is them being able to win (or not to lose) when they play bad. We did that.

 

[The Seeker]

Argentina, 6 points
Australia, 6 points
New Zealand, 6 points

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

To other things. Cant wait to see the stats. The territory must have been appallingly against us.
The bright side, if there is one, is that a sign of maturity/composure i look for in the teams i support is them being able to win (or not to lose) when they play bad. We did that.

Yeah, always the big one for me too.

 

[Derpus]

Scott sio is an absolutely awful scrummager. It's amazing he is still selected.

He is **** and only selected due to injuries.

That said, seemed to me the Argie went down im both of those scrums first (certainly no scrum expert).

 

[The Seeker]

To other things. Cant wait to see the stats. The territory must have been appallingly against us.
The bright side, if there is one, is that a sign of maturity/composure i look for in the teams i support is them being able to win (or not to lose) when they play bad. We did that.

I agree, Los Pumas looked very composed in that second half. Three way tie for first place. Good job Argentina!

 

[Derpus]

Thought the Wallabies were clearly dominant and let the Argies get under their skin. Showed no composure and made terrible decisions.

 

[Derpus]

I agree, Los Pumas looked very composed in that second half. Three way tie for first place. Good job Argentina!

NZ will wrap it up next week with a bonus point win and make the one ******* game i have tickets for a dead rubber.

 

[Kiwiwomble]

Thought the Wallabies were clearly dominant and let the Argies get under their skin. Showed no composure and made terrible decisions.

I think they had the potential to be...but just had too many handling errors and didn't build enough pressure to really be dominant

 

[Kiwiwomble]

I

NZ will wrap it up next week with a bonus point win and make the one ******* game i have tickets for a dead rubber.

see you trying to jinx us