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But to to draw the conclusion that your B Team is better than our B Team because your B Team beat another team is childish.

However, I believe Razor is being myopic in his team selections and game plan. This year was the year to try different things. Everyone would accept losses this year if he was really trying different combos

But in reality he's not... I think Ioane is an amazing winger. He's a good defender at center but he creates nothing at center because for 3 years now his passing and distrubution skills have remained poor. But Razor persists and doesn't give Proctor a chance. The problem is compounded for our centers because Jordie is not a good distributor either - so in the end the ball rarely gets to the wing unless DMAC does a cross field kick. Jordie and/or Reiko bashing the ball up is just so damn predictable.

Scooter is a good player, but after 9 games his leadership must be under question. Furthermore in the 7 games he has captained, I believe the leadership burden has affected his game.

Is Scooter a world class 4 - absolutley not. But unlike Rassie who converted PSDT to the blindside role - Razor has not contemplated doing the same with Scooter.

When will these "pundits" realize that Argentina has no choice as there is NO professional league at home.

There is SLAR (Latin America, full of second class Argies) and MLR (USA with plenty of Argies too), but NO pro league at home. mThereby, all top players come form France/England and maybe Italy.

Some "graduate from SLAR to Europe via Pumas apprenticeship, but they don't play at home.

By the way, Nick, how do you see Santi Grondona playing? He has not been selected lately. But back row is where the Pumas have plenty of good options, so it has to be hard.

Not sure if Quade will get back in, may depend on his connection with Joe!?

Melbourne Roar midfielder - intentional Freudian slipper??🤣 We don't speak that word around here!

But seriously, I do feel there are grounds for hope if they can give the youngsters some extra help to develop them quicker. It is a race against time and they need a fast-track which is not only provided by coaching but mentorship...

Fancy thinking the $900,000 pay rise he's getting to go from league to union was the daftest part of this whole deal!

Guys like these plus Skeleton and Kerevi add class and size, and all of a sudden you have a good team.

I do hope the Japanese clubs play ball, because Kerevi and (IMO) Cooper are musts. I'm not sure they will though. I'm also not sure that these 2 trust RA either

You can wish for France to obey the same rules as NZ, but why should they?? They have two fully pro leagues.

And what the hell is NZ's CVC money if not selling your soul to the highest private bidder??