Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November

[Snowy]

@nostrildamus said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Chocobares is on debut

Nick Mulvenney  /  Nov 11, 2020  /  Sports

Rugby-Centre Chocobares to make Pumas debut against All Blacks

Santiago Chocobares will make his test debut for Argentina against New Zealand this weekend after being named at inside centre in coach Mario Ledesma's starting line-up for the Tri-Nations clash.

Any Argentinians here? I wonder if his name means either
S. American: Pub (Bar) of the Choco (Columbian) people, or
Spanish: Crash Bar..
which would still be rather delightful for a solid midfielder.

See I just thought of these sorts of things:

I deliberately left out Hershey's Choco bars as we all know which road (highway if you like) that will descend to.

TBF he does look more solid, or muscular rather than fat.

Going to be interesting to see if we do our usual bounce back after a loss. We do have a better team out there this week too.

[nostrildamus]

Wish I was an announcer "And on debut, in the midfield, at 1.88m 91kg, a golden slab of a man with a high-calorie game.."

[chimoaus]

I think we need a thread with the best rugby names.

Be funny if this bloke made the national side.

[NTA]

Decided against the trip to Bankwest - didn't have anyone to go with so rather than be a Nigel Nofriends I hit up a free 10-day Foxtel login.

ABs v Argentina
Last season of GoT

Done.

[NTA]

And looks like I'm getting the SkySports pregame feed and not the Aussie shit.

Besides the missing vowels, it's good.

[NTA]

Ah. Well this pregame is the same boring crap as most pregames. Carry on

[chimoaus]

@NTA Yeah nice seeing NZ comms so far. Interesting stats for HB, not sure what the turnover metric relates too as TJ and AS are very different.

[Anonymous]

@NTA said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Ah. Well this pregame is the same boring crap as most pregames. Carry on

The only pregame that isn't boring as fuck is one that involves drinking

[Crazy Horse]

Someone needs to tell JK his glasses look silly.

[NTA]

About 24C in Parra right now - the sun should mostly be off the playing surface by kickoff but she'll be a warm one. RelHum only 55% so not muggy. Light, cool breeze at my place roughly 15km NNW of.

[NTA]

LOL Mehrts hamming it up to prepare AB fans for another potentially below-par performance - Pumas more likely to upset ABs than Wallabies. Guv ut a rist, bro.

Any failures in the AB game plan to fire up will be due to AB rust and a bit of aggression early from the Pumas.

[chimoaus]

@NTA Looks to be perfect conditions, should be a big scoring game you would think.

[Crazy Horse]

Why can't NZ have a stadium like that?

[NTA]

@chimoaus said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

@NTA Looks to be perfect conditions, should be a big scoring game you would think.

Yeah the surface there is pretty good - the two games I saw were Tahs v Brumbies (smashed) and Tahs v Lions (good win). Both evening games but superb.

Aw fuck its Aussie commentary for the game with Kafe, Mehrts, and some other knob. Shit.

[NTA]

@Crazy-Horse said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Why can't NZ have a stadium like that?

I think that's the blueprint for a stadium in ChCh TBH - seats 30,000 and architecture is wonderful.

Lights there are all on-call LED so no bullshit for night games. Not a bad seat in the house, and the sound is really amplified even with a small crowd

(Just the USD360B price tag being the issue tho that may have included knocking down the shit-show that was Parra Stadium)

[NTA]

One club we played against last year in Subbies has a few Argies - I'll bet they are all in attendance.

[NTA]

Jeez we need to pick up on the Welcome To Country game.

[NTA]

That guy they had in Brisbane a couple of times was great. The guy in Perth last year was good as well

EDIT: It's NAIDOC week ffs...

[Anonymous]

@NTA said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Jeez we need to pick up on the Welcome To Country game.

It'd be a start if they just fixed the feedback on the microphone

[Siam]

@NTA said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Jeez we need to pick up on the Welcome To Country game.

Wish they'd make a dance or some performance art...like we do...