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New Zealand clinched the inaugural Rugby Championship title with a round to spare on Saturday with a 54-15 win over Argentina in La Plata.
The All Blacks produced their best performance of the year to demolish los Pumas, scoring seven tries including a hat-trick for Cory Jane and two for his fellow wing Julian Savea.
Centre Ma'a Nonu and scrum-half Aaron Smith also got their names on the scorecard to complete the rout.
The result sees the All Blacks extend their winning streak to 15 games ahead of next weekend's showdown with the Springboks in Johannesburg.
The world champions were given a scare early on as the hosts started in the best possible fashion by taking a 5-0 lead thanks to a wonderful try from scrum-half Martin Landajo.
But it didn't take long for New Zealand to strike back and once the visitors had found their rhythm, it was one-way traffic for the rest of the game and the men in black raced to a 32-8 lead by half-time.
Argentina were not allowed to get away with their customary spoiling tactics at the breakdown by referee Jaco Peyper, and with quick ball at their disposal, the All Black backs were at their devastating best.
The hosts tried to adopt a much more open style than we've seen in the past but while they produced two very good tries, they were unable to match the Kiwis at what they do best - moving the ball into space at pace.
The locals were looking good after Landajo's opening score from a well-worked first-phase backline move that saw full-back Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino burst through on halfway.
But the Argentine defence was nowhere to be seen when Nonu escaped from the fringe of a ruck to put Smith over in the 17th minute.
A few minutes later Read strolled through to set up Jane in the corner, Savea chased down his own chip ahead for his first try and then bagged another on the stroke of half-time.
Although Gonzalo Camacho shrugged off Andrew Hore to score after the interval, the All Blacks killed the game off as Savea manhandled two defenders to set up Jane's second.
Dan Carter kicked five from seven before being taken off along with Richie McCaw on the hour mark. But it didn't stop the points from flowing as replacement Aaron Cruden broke the line with his first touch and set up Nonu for an easy try.
Jane clinched his hat-trick with a 50m intercept with the last play of the game.
Man of the Match It's hard not to give the gong to one of the backs since they scored all the points. Richie McCaw deserves a mention but Kieran Read was phenomenal and had a direct hand in creating at least two of the tries for the flash boys out wide.
Moment of the match: There were a number of excellent tries - with Landajo's score a highlight - but Cory Jane's first try, thanks to a brilliant offload from Read, was out of the top drawer. It put the All Blacks 10 points up and they never looked back.
Villian of the match: No bad guys to be seen.
The scorers:
For Argentina:
Tries: Landajo, Camacho
Con: Hernandez
Pens: Hernandez
For New Zealand:
Tries: A. Smith, Jane 3, Savea 2, Nonu
Cons: Carter 3, Cruden 2
Pens: Carter 2, Cruden
Argentina: 15 Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Santiago Fernandez, 11 Horacio Agulla, 10 Juan Martin Hernandez, 9 Martin Landajo, 8 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (c), 7 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 6 Julio Farias Cabello, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Juan Figallo, 2 Eusebio Guinazu, 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Replacements: 16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Tomas Vallejos, 19 Tomas Leonardi, 20 Nicolas Vergallo, 21 Martin Rodriguez, 22 Juan Imhoff.
New Zealand: 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Charlie Faumuina, 18 Brodie Retallick, 19 Sam Cane, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Ben Smith.
Venue: Estadio Único Ciudad de La Plata
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Craig Joubert (South Africa), Pascal Gauzere (France)
Television match official: Francisco Pastrana
Comments
kitch says...
tooloosain..what bitter hateful sad comments... your opinion fair enough and fair enough on the knock on...in my opinion i thought argentina got away with alot, (gee that was so easy to say!!) and while at first at odds with the ref, i think he did a great job of not nit picking and blowing every penalty, but allowing the game to flow... but i do suppose the fact the ABs were clearly the better team on the night does help!
it constantly amuses me that who you support tends to determine what you see, and who you hate ..the same!
who apart from you calls them the beautiful running team???.. just another spiteful hater who is jealous of the success of the ABs.
Posted 18:33 30th September 2012
Euskadi says...
Just seen Reads pass to Carter for Saveas first try from a different angle (over head) not a forward pass as I previously thought could have been
Posted 18:16 30th September 2012
BillyMutt2 says...
@Toulousian: go take your meds now, mate. You clearly have no idea about the game of rugby. Or anything else, it seems. "Death by technology"? WTF dude.
Or in hindsight, don't take any more meds. You clearly had enough already.
Posted 17:31 30th September 2012
TVaddict says...
@Ramage
Indeed, well since you always are such pleasant commentator I'm glad I brought you some happiness from my comment. :)
As for what I posted I believe I have explained it better on another post.
@new_j4a
I believe a forward pass is relative to the player is it not? So if we consider a two players (A&B) running forward at 10 meters a second, with the player B a meter behind player A. Then if the ball was passed from player A to player B at a relative speed of 1 meter per second, then I understand that relative to the pitch the ball is still going forward but it is not a forward pass. Is that correct?
It is entirely possible that the viewing position could have distorted my interpretation of what happened. Though, quite a few others have come to the same or similar conclusions so it is also possible that it could just be that they were forward passes.
Posted 17:05 30th September 2012
Euskadi says...
Watched the match again and could not find a single forward pass that lead to an All Blacks try, perhaps the pass from Read to Carter that lead to Saveas first try could have looked dodgy (though I think it was fine) but apart from that not a single instance.
NZ is the only team capable of putting 50 points on other top tier nations regularly and yet they still attract criticism from trolls obsessed with the blind conspiracy notion that the All Blacks are treated differently (favored) by the refs. Admittedly I am an All Blacks supporter so cannot be considered impartial but for the life of me I simply cannot see what some posters believe to be such obvious purposefully planned infringements seemingly at every ruck and pass. When I see the All Blacks scything through defenses and scoring tries that only they can, I see skill, pace, courage and talent in abundance coming together to create wonderful running rugby that is a joy to watch.
I thought the Pumas also played well, they just happened to catch the All Blacks on form and not many teams can live with the ABs when that happens, maybe only the Boks. NZ figured the Pumas defence out, ran direct on acute angles to get over the advantage line then used the quick ruck ball from subsequent phases, brilliant to watch if you enjoy running rugby.
With Ozs injuries and the Pumas self belief very high it will be a tight contest in Rosario next week. But the match to watch will be the one in Soweto
Posted 16:52 30th September 2012
TVaddict says...
@sandal
Yes that was a rude reply, and while I accept the apology it's strange to follow an apology with further rudeness.
I myself apologies for my rash comment of 'abuse it', I'm afraid I wrote that comment on the back of 9 pints, so I guess I didn't chose my words that carefully.
As for the base of my comment. I, along with a lot of other people, feel that the All Blacks seem to score a lot from committing acts of deliberate foul play. This opinion could only be called fact or fiction if someone felt strongly enough to analyse every try they've scored this year and compared it other countries.
Now, some nicer commentators have pointed out that it's probably because New Zealand are simply a lot better at taking the advantage when the referees allow/miss the fouls. So this possibly creates the illusion that New Zealand cheat more than other teams, when in actual fact it's probably just they utilise the advantage the better.
However, the fact still remains that if the game was refereed by some omnipotent computer (or whatever) then a lot of the tries wouldn't have been scored. Not enough to change the result of the game, but it would have been more balanced.
Posted 16:47 30th September 2012
Toulousain says...
next video nasty.... abs get the ball back from kick-off 48.29. less than 1 minute later ay 49.12 (or 5 rucks later if you prefer, 4 of which are lighting fast), ref takes f-lobbe aside to say "enough is enough" with the slowing tactics pointing to several imaginary prior offences. eh? we are 9 minutes into the 2nd half and pumas have had the ball in ABs 22 for 8 and a half of those minutes.
so ABs get 7+ minutes of lee-way. PUMAS get less than 1?
of course, we know what happens next. from resulting line-out and drive, ref sticks his arm out on 50.00. for what? abs simply lose their feet, there's not a puma anywhere near the play. mccaw then holds on the ground. then woodcock does same at next ruck. then ball finally goes out and jane goes over in the corner.
simples
Posted 16:16 30th September 2012
carpelone says...
First of all, a fantastic display from New Zealand. Carter is not Cruden and it showed.
Congratulations on winning the first Rugby Championship, that was truly deserved.
You are invited to celebrate it in Soweto.
Hansen must be proud of all his boys, including the ref who did what he was told to do.
Posted 16:15 30th September 2012
TVaddict says...
@porridge_time
Yes. Yes I am.
@hayj05, @bk47 , @rugby_phile
Yeah, your probably right. The fact that if you give the All Blacks an inch with the rules they score probably does distort my interpretation, and that it didn't have an impact on the result of the game.
I know what you mean about the fans at the end. I've found Argentinian fans the most enjoyable to watch any sport with. They're so passionate and loud, but not in an unpleasant or threatening way. In the Olympics I watched Argentina play handball and there were only like 40 Argentinian fans, but they out cheered everyone else! And even when they lost by about 30 pints they were still cheering! They bring a lot to this sport.
Posted 14:01 30th September 2012
golden_statenba says...
I think what was interesting about this game was that the NZ coaching team and players worked out the pumas defence.
Against the rush D the abs were pulling off quick draw and pass and the pumas had no answer. They did not have plan B
I dont think the ABs were to worried about conceding a try or two and that first try was great and something only the pumas or the French could pull off.
This Abs side are something else and even if they do loose to SA they have yet again proved their consistency.
So glad the pumas are in this and PAMPA you should be proud of your pumas. If this team continue to play like this there are many teams that will fall to them.
Posted 13:47 30th September 2012
Manchesterlad says...
Well that didn't go according to plan, as a Pumas fan it was very disappointing & almost embarrassing at times but the ABs were just magnificent
The Pumas obviously changed their gameplan to a more attacking style maybe to answer the criticism of their spoiling tactics but it just left them more open at the back & against the ABs it was never going to work
Kudos to the Kiwis who made the trip, some parts of the stands were just a sea of black & apart from the whistling at the penalties, I thought the Argies were pretty well behaved & showed their appreciation by staying & applauding the trophy presentation at the end
Well, Rosario next week &hoping for a better performance against the Wallabies & the Bokke/ABs game should be a cracker ........ Vamos chicos vamos
Posted 13:28 30th September 2012
Toulousain says...
btw, for anyone who likes to analyse video in detail (some people do, indeed at our club we even have people who do only this!) and admires really disruptive/illegal play, check out the tape from 40.55 (dagg's knock-on and re-gather) to 47.16 (camacho's try). i won't go into every detail. but that's almost 7 minutes of beautiful constant deliberate "cheating" (i use the word loosely) in every way possible at ruck, line-out, maul, scrum, breakdown, midfield offside, you name it!! the peerless mccaw is able to make at least 3 clearly penalisable offences in one movement only 5 yards from the line (and gets credit for it from justin marshall in commentary - unbelievable - do these people not understand the laws?). what does the man need to do to see yellow?
and this by a team with 32 points on the board (where pretty much each point at that stage is questionable due to fwd passes, blocking, crossing, not coming back for previous advantage, and just plain wrong refereeing decisions).
also, note how the beautiful "running" team takes every shot at goal possible. hmmmm. not often you can say a team is lucky to win by 54 points.
Posted 12:20 30th September 2012
MadTripa says...
I was an awfull Pumas peferformance, our team was very nerveus and AB played perfect and biutiful rugby showing the higest class I have ever seen from visitors in this soil, it was a blest for the whale rugby union and a painfull hit for argies.
Altough I think that AB are almost 20 points over Pumas at this times, that distance depends on what team take over the match or impose the way of te party.
Yesterday was cleary that the match was playing at AB style and the visitors did it really perfect.
Great for rugby union, painful for us.
Camon Pumas!!!
Posted 11:51 30th September 2012
boksmashoffice says...
Bring it next week AB's.
Posted 10:58 30th September 2012
Trinats2 says...
hayj05:
TVaddict is spot on, as some of your countrymen said (including your one eyed commentators) Maybe jaco like joubert are onto a kiwi citizenship !!!
Posted 10:34 30th September 2012
makemehappy says...
Ouch!! A huge difference in class. Some had thought the Puma's might win - laughable!
Posted 10:02 30th September 2012
sandal says...
@Tvaddict
So you think the All Blacks "abuse it", "it" being what you perceive to be a helping hand from the referees. What do you expect the ABs to do? Penalise themselves 10 metres? Play on one leg only? (McCaw has already tried that; he still won.) Your comment is as idiotic and tiresome as I have seen.
Most penalties are awarded not for deliberate misdemeanours -- that is, cheating -- but for technical errors in a physical contact game played at high speed, one in which your every endeavour is opposed by your opponents, so mistakes come thick and fast. In any game (except the last 61 minutes of Wayne Barnes's 2007 World Cup quarter-final) both teams commit such errors, and there are a lot of them. Are you suggesting the All Blacks are different than everyone else because they do it deliberately, they "abuse it", while everyone else is just trying to be honest?
You have no basis for your comment, no point to make.
If this response seems rude, I am sorry, but as I say your comment is tiresome and idiotic. One Trinuts is bad enough.
Posted 09:16 30th September 2012
Toulousain says...
@ hayj05 "What was refreshing about the crowd though was seeing them standing & applauding after the full time hooter. Some may have been doing it because it was a thoroughly entertaining game & some may have been doing it to show their respect to the AB's but whatever the motives it was great to see."
yes. 100% agree. amazing respectful crowd. such a contrast to eden park RWC final didn't you think? it shld make you ashamed, unless you are in denial still?
@TVaddict. i cldnt agree more. it was a really good contest until the ref started giving ABs chances to get ahead. after 25minutes there was no game anymore. just 2 teams going through motions. who wants to watch that? just drooling AB fans who don't understand the element of combat and desire that makes a true game. this was just basketball. no contact. just points. like being killed by a drone from 20,000 feet. no hand to hand death. just death by technology.
Posted 08:51 30th September 2012
pony_ says...
Oh dear, more stuff about NZ being favoured by the ref. The Pumas were awarded 12 penalties to NZ's 9 and I didn't notice anything particularly controversial watching from the couch. The ref (who was just about the best I've seen in the RChp so far) let a few things go on both sides because they didn't affect play, he played the advantage superbly and he set the rules for the breakdown early-on and stayed with them without being pedantic.
And Justin Marshall always goes out of his way, sometimes ridiculously so, to appear impartial. Often he's proved wrong by replays and sometimes he even admits to it, but not always. In short, he's not a good measure of whether the ref got it right.
Posted 08:46 30th September 2012
kpe12 says...
Good game, good flow. AB's defence is still incredible. Offload support AB's are miles ahead of the rest of the world.
Posted 08:15 30th September 2012