Farewell to Marcelo Campo, a great Puma and a friend
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An expatriate Argie to the USA who started playing at the very tender age of 9 in an Irish School in Buenos Aires. He then played club rugby in Argentina. After moving to the USA, he played for his business school and some local clubs. Occasionally helped train skills and also refereed. His interest in writing about rugby came after meeting Graham Henry in New York City. He is most interested in the leadership issues dealing with team function.
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In 1999 I was on a train from Paddington to Cardiff to watch the first match of the Rugby World Cup, Wales against Argentina.…
Our hirsute Saffa analyst has been analysing and interpreting the performance of different positions and attempting to discover new statistical tools to review players…
Sunday morning, my wife and I went on a bicycle ride around where we live. She had been travelling and busy at work so…
What are Argentineans? What is Argentine rugby? To paraphrase an old friend of mine from the UK, they are an enigma inside a conundrum…
Jorge Wittman, 'Witty', was a fabulous number 7 and 8 for Pueyrredon, my club, and played for the Pumas from 1971 through 1973. Witty…
My dad wasn't an openly religious man. Like almost everything about him, he was private about his faith. He enrolled us in Catechism classes…
I attended what USA Rugby called 'The Rugby Weekend' in Chicago to watch the New Zealand Maoris play the USA and the All Blacks…
This is a story of two halves. I sat in the press box for the first half, and my official and lovely photographer was…
It is with profound sadness that I write about the passing of the greatest rugby teacher from Argentina, Angel "Papuchi" Guastella, last night in…
A post by Frank O'Keeffe about the top rugby players made me reminisce of some of the Pumas of my time. In this brief…
This week, Harry Jones wrote about the Jaguares and his disappointment at their performance in this, their first year of Super Rugby. Before we…
Nice!
The Greatest Final: Argentina win World Cup on penalties after Messi & Mbappe combine for thriller
To paraphrase an old song, these English are “still sore after all these years”.
'Shaking hands with Diego': Football world explodes after Messi masterclass - but Pom pundits lose their minds at penalty
No. Absolutely wrong. The Morris team I mentioned tours Ireland and are part of the Leinster fans club. They also go to the Oktoberfest as well. I was only among the few foreigners in the team.
Old Japan was another story.
In CA there are a lot of Pacific Islanders playing. And I noticed Saffas too, coaching as well.
The Wrap: Wallabies’ inability to win the big moments a real pain in the neck
John,
I played in CT against the Greys for Morris, many years ago. They had a yuuuuuge over 35 roster!
The Wrap: Wallabies’ inability to win the big moments a real pain in the neck
There are rarely any black bushes since the age of Brazilian waxes.
The Wrap: Wins for the Wallabies and All Blacks but many more questions asked than answered
No. The numbers are nonsense. It’s just a table. A collection of disjointed numbers. A data dump.
Wallabies' 'technically reprehensible' flaw emerges in deep dive into The Rugby Championship rivals
Really? I work on stats all day long as part of my profession. I have some sense.
Wallabies' 'technically reprehensible' flaw emerges in deep dive into The Rugby Championship rivals
Correlation, causation, colinearity, sampling. All things missing here. Among others.
Numbers without meaning where everyone will find something they agree with or was their preconceived notion.
It is nonsense they way presented.
I’m sorry again, Harry.
I’ll ask you to look at one thing. Penalties by game by the Pumas. If that doesn’t show you how misleading this is, then I give up.
Wallabies' 'technically reprehensible' flaw emerges in deep dive into The Rugby Championship rivals
Whatever.
I don’t think I ever read so many numbers without a story. Sorry Harry. Pass.
Wallabies' 'technically reprehensible' flaw emerges in deep dive into The Rugby Championship rivals
I wonder what language he spoke when he played at Gloucester or even in Japan. I’m sure Afrikaans was not spoken much in those teams.
The Thursday Two-up: Players of the Rugby Championship
Interesting. Argie players all try to speak English, they may sound like a bad Tarzan, but they make an effort. It is called politeness and respect. Only if their English is very poor or not existent, which is possible, then they will speak Spanish but they will tell you they don’t speak English before answering in Spanish.
But you heard Creevy over the years improve his English from horrible to decent.
The bad language skills I may understand, but I don’t know that every Bok speaks Afrikaner, so it sounds rather suspicious to me. Highly conservative comes very close to other issues…
The Thursday Two-up: Players of the Rugby Championship
No one mentioned Gallo, the Argie Rooster! The most impressive undersized prop in the championship. He should be in your list as you are “related”!
The Thursday Two-up: Players of the Rugby Championship
Don’t forget to be strategic in your tactical implementation of objectives….
No rugby for a month and no answers for the Wallabies... Maybe that’s good?
Except that SEAL training is under huge pressure due to the inappropriate demands on the candidates. Read a recent review in the NYTIMES.
The son of a good friend qualified last year, so I’m aware of the savagery of the preparation.
Do you really want that for rugby players?
Rugby News: Eddie puts Poms in 'Osama' bootcamp, Worcester ban leaves former Force star in lurch, AB greats back Barrett to 12
Ok, your new hooker’s name is pronounced Pore-ts-ki. Not, Porekee.
He’s of Polish descent.
🤢 😡
WILL GENIA: 'Killing the game' - why I can't watch live rugby, surprising Pete Samu trait, backing Dave for RWC
Family visit. Have not seen my mom since ’19, right after the RWC. We are not getting any younger. So, I am hanging out with mom, brothers and other relatives.
Mucho asado y vino.
The Wrap: Resurgent All Blacks secure the Rugby Championship but where to now for each team?
Yes, Basque. There was a large Basque immigration to South America. An Argentina team captain was of Basque origin, Martin Azpiroz. But the most famous one (recently) has been the Uruguayan Ormaechea. I think that’s his name. He played 8 in a RWC’99 at 40 years old. He’s the current Uruguay coach.
Basques introduced the tannat grape to Uruguay and make great wine with it.
The Wrap: Resurgent All Blacks secure the Rugby Championship but where to now for each team?
Oh well.
The Wrap: Resurgent All Blacks secure the Rugby Championship but where to now for each team?
“En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es rey.”
Seven All Blacks, six Boks and a massive reality check for the Wallabies in our TRC team of the tournament
All Murphy’s are Irish. Originally.
The Wrap: Resurgent All Blacks secure the Rugby Championship but where to now for each team?
I missed the joke.
The Wrap: Resurgent All Blacks secure the Rugby Championship but where to now for each team?
You can compliment us. Argies do it all the time. It’s complimenting Cheika that I feel uncomfortable with.
Seven All Blacks, six Boks and a massive reality check for the Wallabies in our TRC team of the tournament
The trophy is NOT called Jules Rimet. That trophy was given to Brazil.
The cup is called FIFA World Cup Trophy.
'The Messi-ah!': World reacts to all-time classic final, but anger over 'poisoned' France and Qatar robe 'shame'