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Pumas vs Wallabies: Match Overview
Date: Oct 6, 2012
Time: 23:00 GMT
Place: Argentina
Competition: Rugby Championship
Live/Repeat: Live (Link to Rugby Live Streaming)
Time: 23:00 GMT
Place: Argentina
Competition: Rugby Championship
Live/Repeat: Live (Link to Rugby Live Streaming)
Pumas Rugby Championship preview
THEY are the new boys in a new series. While big things are not expected they have the Pumas have the ability to sprig an upset or two.
The Pumas are proved to a strong outfit in recent years but as they say in horse racing, the South Americans are coming up several classes joining the former Tri-Nations. Up against the three top-ranked sides in the world, let’s set the Pumas a slightly more realistic goal than winning the inaugural Rugby Championship – taking some scalps at home. In the hostile environs of Argentina, they’re a formidable outfit; particularly with a very long flight for visiting teams. Australia have struggled touring South America, and the Kiwis have only got out of jail there as well. The Pumas have an awkward style that can trouble top sides. They use a combative, territory game that exhibits their huge numbers of players in France, a strong set-piece and sharp goal-kicking. Though not natural, they can use the ball wide as well and coaching consultant Graham Henry is currently pressing them to attack across the breadth of the field even more.
Getting up for one game is possible, but the intensity of playing New Zealand, Australia and South Africa twice each in two months will be a huge shock to the system. It is likely to take a few years before Argentina come to grips with it. The Pumas’ form has not been crash hot in recent times, either. A young side beat France in June but after the return of the French-based professionals, the team lost twice to Stade Francais in warm-up games. The vaunted Pumas scrum was reportedly ordinary in the June outings as well, and former skipper Felipe Contepomi has elected to not play in the Rugby Championships. They’ll miss his big-game experience.
Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, the new captain of the Puma, is an inspirational backrower who trucks the ball powerfully and dents people in defence. Lobbe is no stranger to playing among elite company; currently playing at the star-studded Toulon. A big man who can make a big impact.
The Pumas are proved to a strong outfit in recent years but as they say in horse racing, the South Americans are coming up several classes joining the former Tri-Nations. Up against the three top-ranked sides in the world, let’s set the Pumas a slightly more realistic goal than winning the inaugural Rugby Championship – taking some scalps at home. In the hostile environs of Argentina, they’re a formidable outfit; particularly with a very long flight for visiting teams. Australia have struggled touring South America, and the Kiwis have only got out of jail there as well. The Pumas have an awkward style that can trouble top sides. They use a combative, territory game that exhibits their huge numbers of players in France, a strong set-piece and sharp goal-kicking. Though not natural, they can use the ball wide as well and coaching consultant Graham Henry is currently pressing them to attack across the breadth of the field even more.
Getting up for one game is possible, but the intensity of playing New Zealand, Australia and South Africa twice each in two months will be a huge shock to the system. It is likely to take a few years before Argentina come to grips with it. The Pumas’ form has not been crash hot in recent times, either. A young side beat France in June but after the return of the French-based professionals, the team lost twice to Stade Francais in warm-up games. The vaunted Pumas scrum was reportedly ordinary in the June outings as well, and former skipper Felipe Contepomi has elected to not play in the Rugby Championships. They’ll miss his big-game experience.
Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, the new captain of the Puma, is an inspirational backrower who trucks the ball powerfully and dents people in defence. Lobbe is no stranger to playing among elite company; currently playing at the star-studded Toulon. A big man who can make a big impact.
Pumas Squad: Horacio Agulla (Bath Rugby), Patricio Albacete (Toulouse), Marcos Ayerza (Leicester Tigers), Marcelo Bosch (Biarritz), Martín Bustos Moyano (Montpellier), Gonzalo Camacho (Exeter Chiefs), Manuel Carizza (Biarritz), Agustín Creevy (Montpellier), Julio Farías (Tucuman Rugby), Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe (Toulon), Santiago Fernández (Montpellier), Juan Figallo (Montpellier), Alvaro Galindo (Racing Métro), Lucas González Amorosino (Montpellier), Eusebio Guiñazú (Biarritz), Juan Martín Hernández (Racing Metro), Juan Imhoff (Racing Metro), Martín Landajo (Los Pampas XV), Tomás Leonardi (Los Pampas XV), Juan Pablo Orlandi (Racing Metro), Martín Rodríguez (Stade Francais), Rodrigo Roncero (Stade Francais), Federico Nicolás Sánchez (Bordeaux Begles), Leonardo Senatore (Los Pampas XV), Tomás Vallejos Cinalli (Scarlets), Nicolás Vergallo (Stade Francais)
Wallabies Rugby Championship preview
They won the Tri-Nations last year but then bombed out in the World Cup. They haven’t won the Bledisloe for 10 years. How will Australia fare in the new Rugby Championship?
The series whitewash against Wales in June showed the Wallabies had developed something they’d rarely applied consistently over the last few years: composure. The Welsh arrived with high hopes as Six Nations champions, and believed they were a real chance to knock over the Australian side on home soil. They came close three times but couldn’t get the job done against a determined Wallabies, who secured their wins in the final stages of each Test.
Twice Australia dropped behind with single digits left on the clock but they held nerve, scored the final points and closed it out. Such composure under pressure is a quality only the best sides possess, and Australia have been guilty of crumbling under the strain against New Zealand in recent years.
Led by David Pocock and the rising star of Scott Higginbotham, the Wallabies’ backrow has the potential to be destructive in the Rugby Championship, while Will Genia’s ability to get his men out wide into space – notably Kurtley Beale – is another key asset. The Wallabies proved in winning the Tri-Nations last year that could win away from home, too. They knocked off the Springboks in Durban and backed it up with victory in a decider over New Zealand in Brisbane.
The Wallabies have shown a tendency to start slowly (Scotland, Samoa, cough, cough) so the fact they have New Zealand first-up is a tricky encounter. The All Blacks are, let’s not forget, recently-crowned world champions and aren’t likely to drop many games. The Wallabies will need to beat New Zealand at least once, as they did last year, to be a chance of hoisting silverware and their best chance is at home in Sydney. So there’ll be no room for rust.
The loss of James O’Connor for the first few games is a blow for Australia as well. The blond dynamo was the Wallabies’ best back at the World Cup last year, and is a genuine linebreaker. Not only that, but O’Connor is the best goalkicker in Australia, and nervelessly kicked the Wallabies to their two biggest wins of recent times – against the All Blacks in Hong Kong, and over the Boks in the RWC quarter-final.Being without skipper James Horwill isn’t great news either. Australia are light-on in the locking department and Horwill is a key plank to the Wallabies pack. Nathan Sharpe and Sitaleki Timani will have to find and maintain top form.
Honourable mentions to Kurtley Beale and David Pocock but the man with his hands on the steering wheel for the Wallabies is halfback Will Genia. The star halfback is the man who strikes fear into the hearts of rival teams, with his ball-playing skills and running threats from the base of the ruck quite often the decisive element of a game in which Genia plays. Superb form in the second half of the Super Rugby season. Will need quick, go-forward ball by his forwards and adequate protection from the inevitable harassment.
The series whitewash against Wales in June showed the Wallabies had developed something they’d rarely applied consistently over the last few years: composure. The Welsh arrived with high hopes as Six Nations champions, and believed they were a real chance to knock over the Australian side on home soil. They came close three times but couldn’t get the job done against a determined Wallabies, who secured their wins in the final stages of each Test.
Twice Australia dropped behind with single digits left on the clock but they held nerve, scored the final points and closed it out. Such composure under pressure is a quality only the best sides possess, and Australia have been guilty of crumbling under the strain against New Zealand in recent years.
Led by David Pocock and the rising star of Scott Higginbotham, the Wallabies’ backrow has the potential to be destructive in the Rugby Championship, while Will Genia’s ability to get his men out wide into space – notably Kurtley Beale – is another key asset. The Wallabies proved in winning the Tri-Nations last year that could win away from home, too. They knocked off the Springboks in Durban and backed it up with victory in a decider over New Zealand in Brisbane.
The Wallabies have shown a tendency to start slowly (Scotland, Samoa, cough, cough) so the fact they have New Zealand first-up is a tricky encounter. The All Blacks are, let’s not forget, recently-crowned world champions and aren’t likely to drop many games. The Wallabies will need to beat New Zealand at least once, as they did last year, to be a chance of hoisting silverware and their best chance is at home in Sydney. So there’ll be no room for rust.
The loss of James O’Connor for the first few games is a blow for Australia as well. The blond dynamo was the Wallabies’ best back at the World Cup last year, and is a genuine linebreaker. Not only that, but O’Connor is the best goalkicker in Australia, and nervelessly kicked the Wallabies to their two biggest wins of recent times – against the All Blacks in Hong Kong, and over the Boks in the RWC quarter-final.Being without skipper James Horwill isn’t great news either. Australia are light-on in the locking department and Horwill is a key plank to the Wallabies pack. Nathan Sharpe and Sitaleki Timani will have to find and maintain top form.
Honourable mentions to Kurtley Beale and David Pocock but the man with his hands on the steering wheel for the Wallabies is halfback Will Genia. The star halfback is the man who strikes fear into the hearts of rival teams, with his ball-playing skills and running threats from the base of the ruck quite often the decisive element of a game in which Genia plays. Superb form in the second half of the Super Rugby season. Will need quick, go-forward ball by his forwards and adequate protection from the inevitable harassment.
Wallabies Squad: Ben Alexander, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Berrick Barnes, Kurtley Beale, Quade Cooper, Dave Dennis, Kane Douglas, Anthony Faingaa, Saia Faingaa, Will Genia, Liam Gill, Mike Harris, Scott Higginbotham, Michael Hooper, Rob Horne, Digby Ioane, Sekope Kepu, Drew Mitchell, Stephen Moore, Nick Phipps, David Pocock (capt), Tatafu Polota-Nau, Benn Robinson, Radike Samo, Jake Schatz, Nathan Sharpe, Rob Simmons, James Slipper, Sitaleki Timani, Nic White
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