This must be a brief post by necessity. Megan and I are off to Wellington's Cake Tin, for our only look at the All Blacks in the flesh at this tournament. That means travelling to the ground before the conclusion of this match. So I figure I should embrace this completely and try to guess the final score.
Argentina have had a great tournament, and are in the hot seat to progress from the pool of death. I figure their forward pack will absorb a lot of pressure from the tough Georgians in the early stages but the gap between the teams will grow larger as the match gets older. Georgia will be playing their 2nd match in 4 days and they simply don't have the depth to compete in this match over 80 minutes.
I reckon Los Pumas will score 6 tries in the match and Georgia will snatch 1.
The final score will be 40-10.
We'll all find out how keen my Rugby Radar is when we get back from the ABs match!
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Wow, so I've just discovered what happened! As the Fonz said I was w w w w... only half right!
Argentina opened the scoring with a marvellous try by Juan Imhoff, but despite this they were a long way from dominant. Georgia played the first 40 minutes of their lives and when Lashka Khmaladze ran on to a delicate kick and scored a try which, when converted by Kashvilli, put them 7-5 ahead on the 38 minute mark.
They hold this lead for 11 minutes of the second half until Contemponi kicks the Argentineans back in front. Then he kicks another penalty 8 minutes later. The lead after 60 minutes is razor slim at only 11-7. So much for my prediction, but the Georgians grow weary.
The Pumas added two tries in the last ten minutes to round out comfortable winners on the scoreboard 25-7. The Georgians can only dream about what they might have done if they'd had fresher legs.
They have grown over the tournament beyond their minnow status, perhaps now they are a slightly bigger species - a snapper perhaps.
Final Score: Argentina 25 - Georgia 7
37 games 216 tries
Tweet of the match- "There are only 750 senior players in Georgia" @freezingkiwis
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