TRC: Pumas v All Blacks

[MN5]

@booboo said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@MN5 said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Bones said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real largely meaningless in a world cup year, largely meaningless between world cup years. Got it.

Try Again Bones

You're missing the point :face_with_tears_of_joy:

He’s not the only one

Okay @MN5

Help us out oh wise one.....

He can't. He's ignoring you.

He's too unintentionally hilarious to ignore.

[Siam]

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Crucial said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Bones said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

No Bridge? Dry powder.

It’s only a friendly

Big picture: the game is largely meaningless in a RWC Year

I'm looking for a very good performance

Below graphic is insane

https://twitter.com/rpetty80/status/1151899943172497408/photo/1

Welcome back fella, but jeez I'm getting tired of your meaningless test monologues

The absolute truth is that all games are meaningless, if one subscribes to your assessment. Sport is what you want it to be. It's a voluntary leisure pursuit. The importance of it is in the minds of every participant differently.

Calling games meaningless or friendlies is just a shit can notion for losers diminishing the achievements of winners. It's a dishonorable critique of national sport, and a deliberate insult to the winners. Let the players decide what is meaningless

You're smart enough to know that and we're smart enough to know vapid trolling.

Enough already

[KiwiMurph]

Weather forecast for BA looks improved. Less likely to be a wet weather game.

[Nevorian]

@Bovidae said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

Speaking from experience when I played on the wing it was always on the left. Not only am I left-footed but it is easier to step off your dominant foot.

There aren't many top players who are comfortable playing on both wings and you still see players kick with the in-step of their dominant foot because they can't kick with the other foot.

possibly due to the acceleration factor also, some can accelerate better off their left side and some on their right, and being a good winger is a lot about that initial acceleration to beat your first defender

[E African Troll]

@Siam said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

I see why my POV is controversial

But in an age where games are increasingly brutal + terrible travel itinerary you need to plan accordingly

Not every Tier 1 nation is dealing with a full set of cards to play with
Above graphic highlights where Los Pumas are at atm

To have 5 players start every game & further 4 players miss only 1 game is diabolical You've got no shot of being competitive

So do you go all out with a shallow playing pool + by far worst travel schedule in world rugby or do you pick & choose what games you prioritise

Hence ensuring you've built depth and rested key personal accordingly

[Chester Draws]

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

So do you go all out with a shallow playing pool + by far worst travel schedule in world rugby or do you pick & choose what games you prioritise

The Pumas do not have "by far the worst travel schedule". You're on a group from New Zealand for goodness sake. We're literally the furthest away from all the other rugby playing nations. Your NH tour tours are both much less far and with far less time difference.

Argentina in the Rugby Championship have one more long trip than NZ or Australia, but there are direct flights to each country involved. South Africa have to travel just as far as you.

The difference is that we win away from home, so people assume that we don't have travel issues. That's not true -- we've merely learnt to overcome them. The Pumas problem is not the travel, but that they don't play well away from home, regardless of the travel time involved.

[MN5]

@Siam said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Crucial said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Bones said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

No Bridge? Dry powder.

It’s only a friendly

Big picture: the game is largely meaningless in a RWC Year

I'm looking for a very good performance

Below graphic is insane

https://twitter.com/rpetty80/status/1151899943172497408/photo/1

Welcome back fella, but jeez I'm getting tired of your meaningless test monologues

The absolute truth is that all games are meaningless, if one subscribes to your assessment. Sport is what you want it to be. It's a voluntary leisure pursuit. The importance of it is in the minds of every participant differently.

Calling games meaningless or friendlies is just a shit can notion for losers diminishing the achievements of winners. It's a dishonorable critique of national sport, and a deliberate insult to the winners. Let the players decide what is meaningless

You're smart enough to know that and we're smart enough to know vapid trolling.

Enough already

I find his whole view on "friendlies" both hilarious ( unintentionally ) and baffling.....and when they lose said friendly there's the assumption the players have had to undertake so much arduous travel. One would think judging by @Jaguares4reals posts they had to journey by boat for weeks on end and send a telegram announcing their arrival.

The Pumas will play the All Blacks twice a year so I accept it's extremely likely we'll see them beat us at some stage in the near future. Do the players just shrug their shoulders and go"ah it was only a friendly?"

Like fuck they would. Look at the Irish.

[ACT Crusader]

@jegga I can understand wookiepedia but this emojipedia is taking it too far.

[canefan]

@MN5 squad rotation has been going on for years now. But there is no such thing as a friendly in test rugby. Least of all when we are involved

[E African Troll]

@canefan said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@MN5 squad rotation has been going on for years now. But there is no such thing as a friendly in test rugby. Least of all when we are involved

My analogy comes from Soccer Teams that rest & rotate for their friendlies Then role out their big guns for Qualifying games and Tournaments once they've qualified

I see it similarly for Los Pumas Go hard in TRC and look to rest & rotate during Summer Tests and EOYT with aim to develop depth & experience for younger players in a RWC cycle

Of course in these "Friendlies" you play hard but personal is very different
No wonder remembers or gives a stuff if Wales beat Argentina or if Australia beat Italy come world cup time

[kiwiinmelb]

Sounds like excuses for teams that are a bit shit at the highest level

[Canerbry]

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@canefan said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@MN5 squad rotation has been going on for years now. But there is no such thing as a friendly in test rugby. Least of all when we are involved

My analogy comes from Soccer Teams that rest & rotate for their friendlies Then role out their big guns for Qualifying games and Tournaments once they've qualified

I see it similarly for Los Pumas Go hard in TRC and look to rest & rotate during Summer Tests and EOYT with aim to develop depth & experience for younger players in a RWC cycle

Of course in these "Friendlies" you play hard but personal is very different
No wonder remembers or gives a stuff if Wales beat Argentina or if Australia beat Italy come world cup time

Will Argentina have big guns to roll out at some stage later?

Also, this isn't soccer.

[mariner4life]

@Canerbry said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@canefan said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@MN5 squad rotation has been going on for years now. But there is no such thing as a friendly in test rugby. Least of all when we are involved

My analogy comes from Soccer Teams that rest & rotate for their friendlies Then role out their big guns for Qualifying games and Tournaments once they've qualified

I see it similarly for Los Pumas Go hard in TRC and look to rest & rotate during Summer Tests and EOYT with aim to develop depth & experience for younger players in a RWC cycle

Of course in these "Friendlies" you play hard but personal is very different
No wonder remembers or gives a stuff if Wales beat Argentina or if Australia beat Italy come world cup time

Will Argentina have big guns to roll out at some stage later?

Also, this isn't soccer.

It's close. Argentina don't win anything in soccer either

[canefan]

@mariner4life ouch

[rotated]

@MN5 said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

Do the players just shrug their shoulders and go"ah it was only a friendly?"

I haven't seen our players do that.

[E African Troll]

@Canerbry

Big Guns to come: Sanchez Cordero Isa Figallo Herrara Urdapilledta

With more options if needed, e.g. Imhoff F Bosch etc

[E African Troll]

@Chester-Draws said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: Pumas v All Blacks:

So do you go all out with a shallow playing pool + by far worst travel schedule in world rugby or do you pick & choose what games you prioritise

The Pumas do not have "by far the worst travel schedule". You're on a group from New Zealand for goodness sake. We're literally the furthest away from all the other rugby playing nations. Your NH tour tours are both much less far and with far less time difference.

Argentina in the Rugby Championship have one more long trip than NZ or Australia, but there are direct flights to each country involved. South Africa have to travel just as far as you.

The difference is that we win away from home, so people assume that we don't have travel issues. That's not true -- we've merely learnt to overcome them. The Pumas problem is not the travel, but that they don't play well away from home, regardless of the travel time involved.

You're having a laugh comparing Pumas to ABs in any way re. travel especially if you include Super Rugby which you have to extract any meaningful points

One has 5 pro club established for over 20 years which gives ABs a player pool of 150+ players to choose from

Other has 1 pro club side in their 4th season giving Pumas about 35 players to choose from

One has their club sides play 80-85% of their games in good times Other has 50% of their games in another continent and multiple timeszones behind Nearest "derby match" is 10,000 km away

TRC format favours NZ & AUS big time 3 of 4 games at home to start the comp every year

EOYT are 4 games and a chance to rotate for NZ especially mickey mouse sides like Italy

TBH in the TRC Los Pumas have generally played better away from him than in BA Mendoza Salta etc. over the last 5 years

[E African Troll]

@pakman

Noguera Paz is out of favour atm

AFAIK he was 3rd choice LH prop at Bath Rugby last year behind Obano + Van Rooyun

Not played for Pumas since Nov 2017

[Siam]

First time for a grand piano at a test match?

[Stargazer]

That must be Smith's first time leading the haka since the toilet incident?