Preview: South Africa v Argentina

[AndyS]

Perhaps the greatest picture ever of South African rugby was taken in 1995. In it François Pienaar holds the World Cup and gazes at Nelson Mandela and Nelson Mandela has only glee on his face, fists pumping high in delight, wearing a Springbok cap, both president and captain wearing a Springbok jersey with No.6 on the back. It was a picture filled with joy and hope.

Nelson Mandela will be back at the same ground on Saturday as "his boys" celebrate his 90th birthday and with them will be the Pumas of Argentina who made history on this ground 43 years ago. They have never beaten the Springboks anywhere. Will this be their chance to make history?
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Teams:

South Africa: 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Adrian Jacobs, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Butch James, 9 Enrico Januarie, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Luke Watson, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Brian Mujati, 18 Andries Bekker, 19 Joe van Niekerk, 20 Fourie du Preez, 21 Jaque Fourie, 22 Percy Montgomery.

Argentina: 15 Bernardo Stortoni, 14 José María Núñez Piossek, 13 Federico Martín Aramburu, 12 Miguel Avramovic, 11 Horacio Agulla, 10 Felipe Contepomi (captain) , 9 Nicolás Vergallo, 8 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, 6 Martín Durand, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, 3 Pedro Ledesma, 2 Mario Ledesma , 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Replacements: 16 Alberto Vernet Basualdo, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Esteban Lozada, 19 Álvaro Galindo, 20 Alfredo Lalanne, 21 Benjamín Urdapilleta, 22 Rafael Carballo

Date: Saturday, August 9
Venue: Coca-Cola Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 15.00 (13.00 GMT)
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England
Touch judges: Matt Goddard (Australia), James Leckie (Australia)
TMO: Geoff Warren (England)

[jargan83]

i would love to see the Argies get up in this one? Not being too familiar with Argentine Rugby is this close to their 1st choice side? Even if the boks win they may well be feeling rather battered and bruised
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[GIGS20]

In a vain attempt to answer Jargan's query

Argentina:
15 Bernardo Stortoni, Don't know the name
14 José María Núñez Piossek, Another one new to me
13 Federico Martín Aramburu, Nope sorry
12 Miguel Avramovic, Uh Uh not anybody I've ever heard of
11 Horacio Agulla, Heard this name before, probably a resreve from the World Cup
10 Felipe Contepomi (captain) , The only really experienced back they have, Contepomi's kicking was one of the main reasons Argentina did well in RWC '07
9 Nicolás Vergallo, Rounds out a pretty green backline
8 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Played almost every game of the world cup, was more of a Cliffy Paly bruising straight runner as I recall
7 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, This guy was part of the RWC pack
6 Martín Durand,
5 Patricio Albacete, As was he
4 Rimas Álvarez Kairelis,
3 Pedro Ledesma, The Ledezma brothers also have quite a bit of international experience
2 Mario Ledesma ,
1 Rodrigo Roncero. Was the grunt in the engine room of the World Cup team, I heard he'd been out of action for a while so he might take a while to get up to speed.

In short, the backline is very green and probably outside contepomi are short of experience, but they have a good few forwards who played in the World Cup and aquitted themselves quite well.

Given that the Argies played a fairly pragmatic game of Forwards dominance and clever kicking, you'd suspect that they will do OK, but not well enough....is this an ELV game? I reckon a lot will come down to that, the Argies have come to grips with the fact that they need to play this type of game to get any points and ELV's will probably reduce their effectiveness a fair bit.

I don't know if they have a good alternative kicking option either!

[jargan83]

well if they can't beat them we can hope they smash them physically and leave them feeling a bit sore before the 3N resumes next week

[AndyS]

It's potentially all good - what was that stat about no-one winning three weeks in a row?

[jargan83]

argies 6-0 after 20 mins
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[robyn <3]

argies 6-0 after 20 mins
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excellent... go the pumas!!

[jargan83]

14-9 dirty saffers at half time
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[jargan83]

this is one way traffic now. 17 mins to go and the yarpies are 49-9 up
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updating shoutbox

[jargan83]

i can't see the shoutbox
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[force addict]

lol. well then

[jargan83]

full time, yarpies 63 argies 9

Saffers on the rampage, they scored 63 points in about 48 mins, including 49 in the 2nd half alone.
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MOM adrian jacobs

[slomo]

watched the repeat of this game this morning, saffas hammered them in the second half......................