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Pumas annihilate Sydney club side in warm-up

The Pumas celebrate after tipping over South Africa in Durban in 2015. (Photo by Steve Haag/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Winger Bautista Delguy scored four tries as Argentina romped to a 74-0 victory over Australian club Randwick on Saturday in the Pumas’ final hit-out before the Rugby World Cup.

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The two-time World Cup semi-finalists ran in 12 tries as they exploited the clear gap in class between the sides at Coogee Oval in one of Sydney’s beachside suburbs.

Tomas Cubelli, Julian Montoya, Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Marcos Kremer and Santiago Carreras crossed as the South Americans built a 33-0 lead at the break.

Prop Nahuel Tetaz Chapparo crossed early in the second half before Delguy came off the bench to deliver a finishing masterclass by touching down four times in eight minutes.

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Former captain Agustin Creevy and another of Argentina’s fine clutch of outside backs, Ramiro Moyano, added the final two tries in the last three minutes to bring an end to a week’s training camp in the city.

“It was a great experience for us,” said Pumas halfback Cubelli.

“We are really grateful to Randwick, it was the perfect preparation for the World Cup for us.”

Randwick’s distinguished list of former players includes Michael Cheika and Eddie Jones, the current Australia and England coaches, and the Galloping Greens were able to field recent Wallabies flanker Ned Hanigan in their starting team.

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Former Australia hooker Adam Freier, still playing for the club at the age of 39, and 45-year-old dual code international winger Andrew Walker were also given a run-out off the bench in front of a packed house of about 5,000 fans.

Argentina will face much tougher opposition at the World Cup, where they have been drawn to play England, France, Tonga and the United States in Pool C.

They depart for Japan on Monday and open their campaign with a crunch match against the French in Tokyo on September 21.

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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