15 Benjamin Elizalde, 14 Matias Moroni, 13 Lucio Cinti, 12 Justo Piccardo, 11 Ignacio Mendy, 10 Santi Carreras, 9 Simon Benitez Cruz, 8 Pablo Matera, 7 Juan Martin Gonzalez, 6 Santiago Grondona, 5 Pedro Rubiolo, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Francisco Gomez Kodela, 2 Julian Montoya, 1 Thomas Gallo
Reserves: 16 Bautista Bernasconi, 17 Mayco Vivas, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Lucas Paulos, 20 Facundo Isa, 21 Benjamin Grondona, 22 Agustin Moyano, 23 Nicolas Roge

15 Freddie Steward, 14 Tom Roebuck, 13 Luke Northmore, 12 Seb Atkinson, 11 Will Muir, 10 George Ford (cc), 9 Ben Spencer, 8 Tom Willis, 7 Sam Underhill, 6 Ben Curry, 5 Alex Coles, 4 Charlie Ewels, 3 Joe Heyes, 2 Jamie George (cc), 1 Fin Baxter
Reserves: 16 Theo Dan, 17 Bevan Rodd, 18 Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 19 Chandler Cunningham-South, 20 Guy Pepper, 21 Alex Dombrandt, 22 Jack van Poortvliet, 23 Cadan Murley

I wonder if the Argies will try and expose Steward’s one on one tackling rather than put up contestable kicks. He will swallow those up all day, whereas he has the turning circle of an aircraft carrier.

Best 7 in the NH starting for England

@Dodge said in Argentina v England II:

Best 7 in the NH starting for England

Hmmmm

@Dodge Underhill is certainly in that conversation. He was immense in the last game.

It's infuriating where we are with genuine open sides currently. For years we had a real dearth of genuine 7s and had a succession of guys who "could do a job". Now we have Underhill, Curry x2, Pollock, Earl, Pepper.

Like bloody London buses.

@Catogrande said in Argentina v England II:

@Dodge Underhill is certainly in that conversation. He was immense in the last game.

It's infuriating where we are with genuine open sides currently. For years we had a real dearth of genuine 7s and had a succession of guys who "could do a job". Now we have Underhill, Curry x2, Pollock, Earl, Pepper.

Like bloody London buses.

Our back row is genuinely stacked at the moment as long as Willis is fit - he was incredible last week. Happen to think he's the best 8 in the home nations too, but understand he hasn't been doing it for long enough to book his seat on the Lions tour

If only we could get Jack Willis back in the mix too.

Seems to go in cycles, I assume we will end up with a glut of centres in about 3 years since we've been so short there for a while.

@Dodge

Agree re Wills T although he has the weirdest running gait I've seen for a while.

We're pretty well looked after at 6 too (though that's rarely been a problem), with Hill, Tom Curry, CCS, Chessum and several more waiting in the wings. As you say, find some centres and we might be looking like a good team.

How old is Gomez Kodela ? He must be the oldest player on the international scene. I guess he is in his forties now. Fortunately for the Argies, they have a young gun coming in and who will be a superstar very soon (Tomas Rapetti). He has all the attributes to become the best THP in the world.

A really entertaining first half with both sides playing pacey, ball in hand rugby. England’s poor line out and handling errors releasing pressure often though. Second half was less interesting with both sides showing fatigue and continuity getting buggered up by all the replacements. Too much kicking and little intent from either side. England with possession and territory but with a mislaid cutting edge to go with it. Argentina struggling to get out of their half. Heading for a dull draw but England nicked it with a last minute try when for once they didn’t kick it away.

Offside line optional all through the game.

That was pretty horrid in many ways. The match handbrake scored the winning try.
I do like Carreras and the new puma fullback. But Freddie Steward and Pepper were even better.

A great win and effort by England to go to Argentina and win back-to-back victories with their top players with the Lions. It shows their increasing player depth.

Excellent result, excellent series.

Tough, tough watch on TV with the sun & shade though

@cgrant said in Argentina v England II:

Gomez Kodela

40 last week, a veritable spring chicken.

@nostrildamus said in Argentina v England II:

@cgrant said in Argentina v England II:

Gomez Kodela

40 last week, a veritable spring chicken.

Maths!

How on earth did this happen? A weakend Argentina team beat the Lions at away and then proceed to lose at home to an England side sans-Lions players...

Make it make sense lol

@Windows97 said in Argentina v England II:

How on earth did this happen? A weakend Argentina team beat the Lions at away and then proceed to lose at home to an England side sans-Lions players...

Make it make sense lol

Argentina rotated out a lot of their squad for this series. They didn't use a full-strength team.

@Mr-Fish said in Argentina v England II:

@Windows97 said in Argentina v England II:

How on earth did this happen? A weakend Argentina team beat the Lions at away and then proceed to lose at home to an England side sans-Lions players...

Make it make sense lol

Argentina rotated out a lot of their squad for this series. They didn't use a full-strength team.

More Latin disrespect.