Wales vs Argentina KO 14:30 Sat 10th Nov - TEAM ANNOUNCED

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WALES V ARGENTINA

Venue: Millennium Stadium Cardiff Date: Saturday, 10 November Kick-off: 14:30 GMT

Coverage: Live on BBC One Wales & online; live on S4C; live commentary on BBC Radio Wales & online; live commentary on Radio Cymru

Wales Team

L Halfpenny (Blues), A Cuthbert (Blues), S Williams (Scarlets), J Roberts (Blues), G North (Scarlets); R Priestland (Scarlets), T Knoyle (Scarlets); G Jenkins (RC Toulon), M Rees (Scarlets), A Jarvis (Ospreys), A W Jones (Ospreys), I Evans (Ospreys), J Turnbull (Scarlets), S Warburton (Blues & Captain), T Faletau (Dragons)

Replacements: R Hibbard (Ospreys), R Bevington (Ospreys), P James (Bath RFC), R McCusker (Scarlets), J Tipuric (Ospreys), M Phillips (RC Bayonne), J Hook (USA Perpignan), L Williams (Scarlets)


Argentina Team

JM Hernandez (Racing Metro), G Camacho (Exeter), G Tiesi (San Isidro), F Contepomi (Stade Francais), J Imhoff (Racing Metro), N Sanchez (Bordeaux-Begles), M Landajo (San Isidro), M Ayerza (Leicester), E Guinazu (Southern Kings), J Figallo (Montpellier); M Carizza (Racing Metro), JF Cabello (Tucuman); L Senatore (Gimnasia Rosario), JM Leguizamon (Lyon), JM Fernandez Lobbe (Toulon, captain)

Replacements: A Creevy (Montpellier), B Posiglioni (La Plata), J Gomez (Los Matreros), T Vallejos (Scarlets), T Leonardi (San Isidro), N Vergallo (Southern Kings), H Agulla (Bath), J Tuculet (Grenoble).

Two decisions by the ref very iffy.

Howley must go,

man I can empathise with Welsh supporters, they look like Scotland right now

OH PRIESTLAND WILL YOU JUST Frak OFF

Think Wales could've done with one of these three Fernandez Lobbe chaps playing for the Argies.

A few previous posters on here look rather stupid judging by this Arg performance.

I went for Argentina by 5 but seems I underestimated how poor Wales are.

McCusker is a donkey the ball should have gone

so what can none of these Frak professionals remember how to Frak play the Frak sport they're Frak paid to do?

MCCUSKER - WTF!!!

Lads! That was horrific. A four man overlap and you take the tackle? Tut tut tut.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:A few previous posters on here look rather stupid judging by this Arg performance.

I went for Argentina by 5 but seems I underestimated how poor Wales are.

I know, i got slated because i said that Wales would only be slight favourites but that i would'nt be suprised to see Argentina win

I went for the Arg after I saw the team that was picked but I did not think it would be by more than 5.

You could put this team in a brothel and I don't think they'd score.

Shocking from McCusker. He's an awful player.

Halfpenny missed tackles for both tries. Lions 15 no way.

Well well well

Fancy that!

I wouldn't be so hasty in dismissing Wales Sgt Pooly. They have been poor but Argentina have played well. Credit should be given to Argentina who with their two tries broke Wales' back.

Now psychologically Wales are in turmoil and mistakes occur. That is not to say they will be this poor the next time. There's no shame in losing to Argentina. But Wales playing at home should have won this game. It doesn't always go to plan. Let's see their reaction against Samoa before we judge them too harshly.

forget 4th we be lucky to out within the top 8

No excuses, poor performance by Wales

Well done Argentina. Good luck Ireland against SA.

No surprise , really. Poor team selection, injuries, over-confidence , crap management - we've been here before...

Lobbe is just phenomenal

credit to Argentina indeed, very solid and passionate performance but this Wales team is a shadow of the one who got the 6N GS.

Two great tries too.

Halfpenny - great kicking , but a lot of falling over and missed tackles...

The pitch was awful, when will they learn that rugby is an outdoor game.

Still - real probelm was up front. When the forwards don't dominate, the LACK OF PLAN B gets painfully exposed...

Samoa game seems like an even tougher game now..

Well done Argentina fantastic win real passion and heart,
Wales well what a disgrace! they looked like they couldn't be arsed, boring slow dull couldn't even get out of their own half.

I told you so.
Great victory Argentina.
The last of TRC won over the 6N winner, this is good to think about the level differences between TRC and 6N.

viewtothegym wrote:Well done Argentina fantastic win real passion and heart,
Wales well what a disgrace! they looked like they couldn't be arsed, boring slow dull couldn't even get out of their own half.

That they did view

Argie fan wrote:
I told you so.
Great victory Argentina.
The last of TRC won over the 6N winner, this is good to think about the level differences between TRC and 6N.

Enjoy your night buddy

RogerLewis wrote:Shocking from McCusker. He's an awful player.

Halfpenny missed tackles for both tries. Lions 15 no way.

1/2p missed both tackles are you mad?

He had no chance for the first try he was in no mans land, after Faletau didnt cover tackle initially, the ball was spead wide, and for the second 1.2p made an awesome attempt it was Hook who should have been covering the outside of the FB and was nowhere to be seen

be fair hersh the pitch is always like that at the mill stad

I take it Wales have lost then. havent seen the game been watching England v Fiji.

Going by some of these post on here it was not a good game for Wales? is that right?

mattygoat wrote:be fair hersh the pitch is always like that at the mill stad

But it shouldn't be, with the roof shut its just too greasy on the pitch.

Get it open and if it rains it rains.

roofs aren't all they are cracked up to be

Nah - FHF, that ain't gonna work this time. The Argies danced past him twice, the first time he wasn't even close. Still, the issue is much deeper than that. The Argie 9 totally ruled the game.

But the forecast wasn't that bad today, Wales keep shooting themselves in the foot by insisting that its shut.

Argie fan wrote:
I told you so.
Great victory Argentina.
The last of TRC won over the 6N winner, this is good to think about the level differences between TRC and 6N.

Congrats Argie mate, your team played well in the second half.

Camacho was all over the place, can't think of one misses tackle, and Lobbe was immense.

Only caught last 10 minutes, how did next year's Lions Captain get on?

reallybored wrote:Only caught last 10 minutes, how did next year's Lions Captain get on?

Lobbe got man of the match. They're sorting out his passport currently.

Pot Hale wrote:

reallybored wrote:Only caught last 10 minutes, how did next year's Lions Captain get on?

Lobbe got man of the match. They're sorting out his passport currently.

Won't work, his Grandma is Spanish.

Pot Hale wrote:

reallybored wrote:Only caught last 10 minutes, how did next year's Lions Captain get on?

Lobbe got man of the match. They're sorting out his passport currently.

samuraidragon wrote:Nah - FHF, that ain't gonna work this time. The Argies danced past him twice, the first time he wasn't even close. Still, the issue is much deeper than that. The Argie 9 totally ruled the game.

Try 1
Well he was 5 yards past the post with the Puma 11 able to run one way or the other what chance did he have, the missed tackles were before 1/2p was last man standing

Try 2
Falutau tackled ? not really as the ball was unloaded with simple ease leading to a 4 on 3 overlap, 1/2p should have been covering the inside line with Hook as the 13 covering the Welsh leftside..... ahem that aint going to happen and 1/2p had to cover the left wing WHAT!!!, he made a bloody good attempt

It aint the last man standing who was at fault the only player that made any decent tackles that STUCK was Scott Williams

If Wales had scored that overlap at the end it would have really flattered them. Questionable selections and bench were really shown up by a superior team in the 2nd half. Will Howley's position come under pressure now or with another loss in the next game? It's not looking promising for the 6N next year nevermind the rest of the AI's.

Wales were poor but suffered with the two injuries because they did not have a centre or second row on the bench!

You cant play Argentina with a flanker as lock. Also why did Hook go to 12, surely it would have been better to have Scott Williams at 12 and Hook at 13, where he would not have to do as much tackling?

Not looking promising for the six nations next year???
What a daft statement bachelor, ages away,lets not forget Wales 2007 world cup exit followed by the 2008 slam.

Anyways well done Jarvis played really well, even thou Poite ruined any challenge at scrum time,
What has Bevington done to Poite? he seems to hate the lad.

Well after 2007 the coach was sacked view. The 6N is a long way away, but Wales' performances under Howley thus far don't inspire confidence.

Unfortunately the out of form players at their Regions did not up their performances for Wales as expected by a lot of posters but not Barry John.

I thought the Ref did well today.