Argentina v New Zealand, Sat 27th Sept 2014

[Slim 293]

Nup, Rule 10.

 

[Bardon]

Argies are showing some good ambition to attack from their own line. It's risky stuff and I hope they don't throw an intercept for an AB try.

 

[Bardon]

Great try from Savea.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

The last pass from Smith to Savea looked to be a little forward, but great work by Savea the Elder to get meat. 27 tries in 27 tests. Wonderful record.

Black lead 27 - 6 after 58 minutes.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Cane & TJP on but still no sign of Harris.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Thought Savea's offload was forward but looks OK on replay so BP try, Championship secured.

 

[badabing59]

And that's the championship folks. Congrats to the ABs.

Unless the Argies score 28 points in 10 minutes...

 

[Slim 293]

Argh, that last play sums up the Argies' game..................

They've played some great attacking rugby at times but fail to capitalise.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Harris on. Great shift from Kev, maybe there's life in those legs yet.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Harris on now for Old Man River. 8 minutes game time on debut in Black.

 

[Dewald Nel]

Congrats to the All Blacks. The better team won the championship.

Now onto next week, where the best 2 teams in the world can smash each other into oblivion with no tournament positions etc. hanging over the match - just a pure rugby match, nothing more, nothing less.

Except of course pride, and loads of it.

 

[Slim 293]

Argh.......... once again - if only they could make those passes stick.

Argentina are a good chance next week if they can.

 

[Dctarget]

Congrats to the All Blacks. The better team won the championship.

Now onto next week, where the best 2 teams in the world can smash each other into oblivion with no tournament positions etc. hanging over the match - just a pure rugby match, nothing more, nothing less.

Except of course pride, and loads of it.

Australia's playing Argentina, not NZ. Sorry to disappoint!

 

[Bardon]

Finally Argentina get a reward for their efforts. They deserved that try just as much as NZ deserved the win and the championship.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Yeah, good try and deserved by Los Pumas.

Final score NZ 34 Arg 13.

 

[Dewald Nel]

Australia's playing Argentina, not NZ. Sorry to disappoint!

Based on the results in the last 3 years, that's a tad optimistic mate. But I like your loyalty.

 

[Dan54]

Harris on. Great shift from Kev, maybe there's life in those legs yet.

WO, Kev was always going to play a good game, Gwerty rubbished him in the match thread, and as usually happens when Gwerty does that the player seems to hear about it and prove him wrong

 

[ACT Crusader]

Mealamu is going to get eaten alive. Ridiculous he's still playing.

Couldn't be further from the truth. One of the top 3 on the park tonight. Our scrum was very good and he smashed plenty of Argies in the tackle.

 

[FrankLind]

WO, Kev was always going to play a good game, Gwerty rubbished him in the match thread, and as usually happens when Gwerty does that the player seems to hear about it and prove him wrong

Pedant alert.
Qwerty, (as in the keyboard).

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Probably too early to say if Retallick will be right for next week but jeez I hope he is, right now I'd say we'd miss him more than we would (or did) Whitelock. That's not dissing Sam in any way, it's just that IMO Retallick is now marginally the more valuable of them. Hopefully they kept him off as a precaution & we don't have another Kieran Read-type situation.