Felipe Contepomi: England star 'comes and just hits' him in tunnel

Stop projecting please. It is getting boring spud.

And that is the joy of stratagy! Plan A to Z and all within the laws.

You are stating an opinion on assumed facts.

We’ll have to wait and see. If Curry has the motor skills to push a coach then he should have the brain power to know not to do it.

Either way, it has overshadowed a very good game and one the Puma’s left behind.

"And Curry, let me say, it is not only that because probably it is part of his nature to bully people. But he came off in the tunnel and he gave me a little smack. He is 27, strong. I am 48."

"I was standing there. He was coming to say 'hi' to one of our coaches [Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe], but Fernandez said 'no, no' because we were upset because he was reckless and broke our player's knee.

"When he came I said 'mate, you broke his knee', and he pushed me. Maybe that's the way he is. I don't know him. I'm not happy with the situation.

"After breaking someone's knee you need to be at least humble enough and respectful to say sorry I did something wrong. But he went the opposite.

"Maybe it's his way of being a bully. If we want bullies in this game, good on them. I know it's rugby, but if we don't look after each other in rugby, it could be dangerous."

Felipe stated that Richard Hill witnessed the incident. Will Hill lie? And to say Pumas were mad at the end of the game but Pollock was passing rosaries? There are no saints in this affair. In real time the tackle was very late but Curry made no attempt to mitigate. The rest is due to the passions of both sides.

It's probably worth waiting to see what comes of an inquiry on this. None of us were there after all, just bystanders with extremely limited involvement and exposure to what really happened.

I suggest you watch the interview video And then realise you are 100% incorrect about the statement you have made.

Hi didn’t call him a Bully read the interview.

He’s a seat sniffer. Just tell him he’s blocked and he’ll usually piddle off.

The issue would clearly be the “bully” and their actions.

Not even a politician would try to deflect like that.

Curry will have assassinated his own character if he went to the gutter and did what he’s accused of doing.

If he didn’t, a strongly worded denial would help. Still waiting for that…

He should have just kept quiet, then? Why remove the agency around his right to feel aggrieved or react in a manner he sees fit?

Why and how is that wrong?

He references the incident, other journalists as part of the media scrum have referenced that something happened and the English head coach said he’s aware of something too. The allegation is severe and could be grounds for Curry bringing the RFU and the sport into disrepute.

Why would you be so depressingly dismissive?

The first question asked by any citing panel - ‘Felipe, what were you doing in the tunnel approaching a player after the final whistle?’. Follow up ‘Given the exchange that took place on the pitch immediately prior, and the nature of the game itself, do you think this was sensible?’.

This is a non story completely.

Mike - if you don’t think a head coach coming out in the media interview and calling a player “a bully” and then doing what he did with the accidental (he smacked me, which is quickly rescinded by saying “how you say” isn’t a character assassination, then you clearly don’t reflect rugby values.

It’s a cheap shot by FC and is out of line.

Sadly there is no point in discussing further if you don’t get it.

All of these are your personal opinions. It is not character assasination to accuse Curry of pushing him in the tunnel if he did. He gave the reason as “Maybe he is a bully”. Not character assassination. There are civil laws available to Curry but you appear to be accusing Contemponi of crimes.

This is why I think Curry is in trouble. The Argentinian Coach is a highly intelligent man.

He would said nothing legally questionable.

All this is the culture now. Players mock opposition fans, they fight and insult eachother after matches, coaches attack refs online, death threats etc.

You can’t pick and choose. You must condemn all of this if and when you see it. It is pretty clear that Curry pushed Contemponi in the tunnel. Acknowledging how very wrong this is if it happenned might be appropriate.

If its a character assassination then it will be dealt with by rubgy and/or civil societies.

Galthie used his deputy to do similar against Irish players after Dupont was injured. His coaching experience was only to remove himself from potential consequences.

At least Contemponi is standing behind his words.

Again the culture of coaches doing things like this is from Erasmus and the likes of Galthie. Clearly this is the most effective way to get joy from WR now.

Thew central issue is that Curry pushed Contemponi. If he gave him a proper shove and it was not part of a wider Melee (with Contemponi involved) then this is a very serious incident. If its on camera then Curry should miss the six nations.

No Mike - a 48 year old head coach going into a post match interview with the world wide media to use that word at an opposition player is a character assassination, which as a result has damaged the image of the game.

I see three actions at play, the confrontation on the pitch by the Argentina players (unacceptable), the tunnel incident (should never have happened - totally unaceptable) and FC’s post match character assassination (probably the worst of all of it).

I’m not sure what has gone on in the tunnel but given how Curry has decided to exit the pitch, not wait for the Argentina players in the “walk off tunnel” and then has FC carrying on the same issue in the stadium tunnel . . . FC has decided to take action himself towards an opposition player, which doesn’t look good for him.

What I don’t accept as acceptable is for an International coach to walk into the post match media interviews and throw those words and character assassination against an opposition player in a post match interview. You don’t see that from other coaches and I think FC’s inexperience as a Head Coach has just been exposed by his actions.