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Creevy encouraged by Pumas as Sanchez sets points record
By Nicholas McGee
Agustin Creevy is confident Argentina are building a good team after Nicolas Sanchez became their all-time leading point scorer in a competitive Rugby Championship defeat to New Zealand.
Argentina made a much-changed All Blacks side work hard throughout an entertaining contest at Nelson's Trafalgar Park, with late tries from Shannon Frizell and Jack Goodhue making the 46-24 scoreline look much more flattering for New Zealand.
Sanchez accounted for one of the Pumas' three tries and scored 14 points in total, seeing him leapfrog Felipe Contepomi as Argentina's record point scorer with 655.
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The performance came on the back of a 32-19 win over South Africa, and captain Creevy sees definite signs of progress under coach Mario Ledesma.
"The first [half] was really, really fast and I think we struggled with that," Creevy said.
"We feel good, we feel strong, we will continue. We had a lot of opportunities and we had a good result. We need to improve, we are building a good team, good rugby."
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Steve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
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