Toulouse : Chocobares de retour pour le quart à Toulon

Well at least the pressure is off them now - not playing for the perfect tour.

Now they can just focus on winning one game. Build from there.

Joe’s tail will be up. But to be fair, this isn’t the Lions Team that will take on the Wallabies for the tests that matter. So we haven’t learned anything about the Lions yet. This was a trials match for the fringe options.

Marcus Smith will carry water from here out I’m guessing. Can’t see him as a viable option at 15.

“This Pumas squad has a homegrown tinge to it, with eleven members of the squad coming from their three Super Rugby Americas sides Tarucas, Dogos XV and Pampas – Luciano Asevedo, Simón Benítez Cruz, and Nicolás Roger (Tarucas); Boris Wenger, Pedro Delgado, Leonel Oviedo, Agustín Moyano, and Faustino Sánchez Valarolo (Dogos XV); Joaquín Moro, Justo Piccardo, and Santiago Pernas (Pampas).”

No wriggle room.

Many of the best flankers put the head down and don't draw attention to themselves while doing the grunt work to help their team.

Or, to quote an old T-shirt I had, with the Alfred E Neumann image holding up his middle finger, with the saying “Sorry, you’ve mistaken me for someone who actually gives a sh*t!”. Wallow in your own misery, you deserve it…

Also, Newell led the props in tackles, 12 & carries, 10, & his work rate at ruck across the 80 mins was immense. That’s why a rating of 6 is just plain disrespectful.