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Los Pumas name 46-man Rugby World Cup squad and it's not just Jaguares players
Los Pumas Head Coach Mario Lesdesma has unveiled his 46 strong training squad ahead of the Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
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The Pumas are in the same pool as England, France, Tonga and the USA.
Assistant coaches – Nicolás Fernández Miranda and Martín Gaitán – will be accompanied by Juan Fernández Lobbe, also an assistant coach and Gonzalo Longo as team manager.
He has included both Premiership and Top 14 players, expectedly rowing back on the Los Puma’s Super Rugby based selection policy.
In March Ledesma clarified: “For years, the players could not evolve for Los Pumas if they were not part of the Jaguares. Recently, the rule has relaxed somewhat, in the sense that when the need arises, we summon expatriate players to a specific position. We will always favour the guy of the franchise. But if not, we will call on expatriates.”
Looseheads
1 Tetaz Chaparro, Nahuel – Jaguares
2 Vivas, Mayco – Jaguares
3 Zeiss, Juan Pablo – Jaguares
4 Díaz, Javier – Jaguares
5 García Botta, Santiago
Hookers
6 Creevy, Agustín – Jaguares
7 Montoya , Julián – Jaguares
8 Socino, Santiago – Jaguares
Tightheads
9 Figallo, Juan – Saracens
10 Herrera, Ramiro – Stade Francais
11 Medrano, Santiago – Jaguares
12 Pieretto, Enrique – Jaguares
13 Sordoni, Lucio – Jaguares
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Secondrows
14 Petti, Guido – Jaguares
15 Lavanini, Tomás – Jaguares
16 Alemanno, Matías – Jaguares
17 Paulos, Lucas – Jaguares
Backrow
18 Matera, Pablo – Jaguares
19 Lezana, Tomás – Jaguares
20 Isa, Facundo – Toulon
21 Ortega Desio, Javier – Jaguares
22 Kremer, Marcos – Jaguares
23 Bruni, Rodrigo – Jaguares
24 Leguizamón, Juan Manuel
Scrumhalves
25 Cubelli, Tomás – Jaguares
26 Bertranou, Gonzalo – Jaguares
27 Landajo, Martín – Jaguares
28 Ezcurra, Felipe – Hindú
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Flyhavles
29 Sánchez, Nicolás – Stade Francais
30 Urdapilleta, Benjamín – Castres
31 Díaz Bonilla, Joaquín – Jaguares
32 Miotti, Domingo – Tucumán L.t.
Centres
33 González Iglesias, Santiago – Jaguares
34 De La Fuente, Jerónimo – Jaguares
35 Orlando, Matías – Jaguares
36 Moroni, Matías – Jaguares
37 Mensa, Lucas – Pucará
38 Mallía, Juan Cruz – Jaguares
Back three
39 Ezcurra, Bautista – Jaguares
40 Moyano, Ramiro – Jaguares
41 Delguy, Bautista – Jaguares
42 Cancelliere, Sebastián
43 Boffelli, Emiliano – Jaguares
44 Tuculet, Joaquín – Jaguares
45 Montero, Manuel – Pucará
46 Carreras, Santiago – Jaguares
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Are the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
2 Go to commentsBig difference from the Saders. Forwards really muscled up and laid a solid platform. Scooter brought some steel and I liked the loosie combination. Newell has been rather disappointing this season but stepped up big time - happy also to see Franks dot down. He should do that more often! Reihana had a good game and there seems to be more flair and invention with him in the saddle. McNicoll plays well from the back and is reliable plus inventive when he joins the line. Keep it up chaps!
3 Go to comments🤦♂️🤣 who cares who’s the best . All I know is the All Blacks have the star coach but have few star players now …
30 Go to commentsJe suis sûr que Farrell est impatient de jouer avec Lopez et Machenaud et d’être entraîné par Collazo… 🤭
1 Go to commentsAn on field red (aka a full red) in SRP must surely carry a bigger suspension than a red card given by the bunker as that carries a 20 minute team punishment. Had Damon Murphy abdicated his responsibility as a ref and issued both Drua players a yellow, which would have been upgraded to a 20 minute red by the bunker, that would have killed Australia and New Zealand’s push for the 20 minute red to be trialled globally from July this year.
11 Go to commentsEver so often you all post a Danny Care story that isn’t the announcement that he has finally re-signed for one more, victory tour season at Quins and I’m just like, “well you fooled me again!” My absolute favorite player ever, we need to make his final year at the Stoop (and Twickers) official already. I know he supposedly snubbed France but I won’t feel better until he signs.
1 Go to commentslate hit what late hit it wasn’t at all late and can clearly see he was committed before the tackle
2 Go to commentsChristian Lio -Willies 2 try perfomance was a standout. As was captain Scott Barrett. Up front was where the boys won it.They are a great team and players. Fantastic Crusaders , you can keep going.
3 Go to commentsI don't know how the locals feel about that? I guess if you call yourselves the Worcester Wasps that might be appease. But really we need more teams in the Premiership in my view so they are not padding it out as they are at the moment. It might curtail so many players going abroad as well
5 Go to commentsNZ 😭😭😭is certainly rivaling England for best whingers cup!😭😭😭 !!!
30 Go to commentsYup. New Zealand won 3 out of 10 world cups played. SA 4 out of 8 attempts 30 Vs 50 per cent.🤔🤔
30 Go to commentsShould've done this years ago. Change Saturday kick off times to around 11am. Up and off and back home before 3pm, limit travel time too. Allows players to actually do something else with their Saturday that's family oriented or being rugby fans they could ‘watch’ pro rugby. Increases crowds etc. How can anyone that enjoys grassroots and pro rugby have to choose between the two on Saturdays?
9 Go to commentsI bet he inspired those supporters just as much.
1 Go to commentsBen Smith Springboks living rent free in his head 😊😂
67 Go to commentsGood to hear he would like to play the game at the highest level, I hadn’t been to sure how much of a motivator that was before now. Sadly he’s probably chosen the rugby club to go to. Try not to worry about all the input about how you should play rugby Joey and just try to emulate what you do on the league field and have fun. You’ll limit your game too much (well not really because he’s a standard athlete like SBW and he’ll still have enough) if you’re trying to make sure you can recycle the ball back etc. On the other hard, you can totally just try and recycle by looking to offload any and everywhere if you’re going to ground 😋
1 Go to commentsThis just proves that theres always a stat and a metric to use to justify your abilities and your success. Ben did it last week by creating an imaginary competition and now you did the same to counter his argument and espouse a new yardstick for success. Why not just use the current one and lets say the Boks have won 4 world cups making them the most successful world cup team. Outside of the world cup the All Blacks are the most successful team winning countless rugby championships and dominating the rankings with high win percentages. Over the last 4 years statistically the Irish are the best having the highest win rate and also having positive records against every tier 1 side. The most successful Northern team in the game has been England with a world cup title and the most six nations titles in history. The AB’s are the most dominant team in history with the highest win rate and 3 world cups. Lets not try to reinvent the wheel. Just be honest about the actual stats and what each team has been good at doing and that will be enough to define their level of success.
30 Go to commentsHow is 7’s played there? I’m surprised 10 or 11 man rugby hasn’t taken off. 7 just doesn’t fit the 15s dynamics (rules n field etc) but these other versions do.
9 Go to commentsPick Swinton at your peril A liability just like JWH from the Roosters Skelton ??? went missing at RWC
14 Go to commentsLike tennis, who have a ranking system, and I believe rugby too, just measure over each period preceding a world cup event who was the longest number one and that would be it. In tennis the number one player frequently is not the grand slam winner. I love and adore the All Blacks since the days of Ian Kirkpatrick when I was a kid in SA. And still do because they are the masters of running rugby and are gentleman on and off the field - in general. And in my opinion they have been the majority of the time the best rugby team in the world.
30 Go to commentsHaving overseas possessions in 2024 is absurd. These Frenchies should have to give the New Caledonians their freedom.
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