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Premiership flyer included as Argentina change three for England
By Liam Heagney
The double jobbing Michael Cheika has named an Argentina team to take on England on Sunday that shows three changes - including the selection of Newcastle's Mateo Carreras - from the XV that completed The Rugby Championship with a loss to the Springboks in Durban on September 24.
Cheika is also currently involved with the Lebanon rugby league team that will contest a World Cup quarter-final on Friday night against Australia in Huddersfield ahead of the Pumas’ Autumn Nations Series opener in London.
Having lost to South Africa 38-21 to finish in fourth and last place in the TRC, Argentina have decided to go in against England with two different starting props as loosehead Thomas Gallo and tighthead Francisco Gomez-Kodela have been named in place of Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro and Eduardo Bello, who both drop to the bench.
The only other change made by Cheika to his Argentina XV is on the wing where Carreras is named at No14, resulting in Emiliano Boffelli switching to the left with Juan Imhoff dropping out. Carreras has lit up the Gallagher Premiership in England in recent weeks with Newcastle, scoring five tries in five appearances.
Named on the replacements bench that has a five forwards/three backs split is Eliseo Morales, an uncapped half-back. This split differs from England who have gone with six forwards and two backs in reserve.
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That's really stupidly pedantic. Let's say the gods had smiled on us, and we were playing Ireland in Belfast on this trip. Then you'd be happy to accept it as a tour of the UK. But they're not going to Australia, or Peru, or the Philippines, they're going to the UK. If they had a match in Paris it would be fair to call it the "end-of-year European tour". I think your issue has less to do with the definition of the United Kingdom, and is more about what is meant by the word "tour". By your definition of the word, a road trip starting in Marseilles, tootling through the Massif Central and cruising down to pop in at La Rochelle, then heading north to Cherbourg, moving along the coast to imagine what it was like on the beach at Dunkirk, cutting east to Strasbourg and ending in Lyon cannot be called a "tour of France" because there's no visit to St. Tropez, or the Louvre, or Martinique in the Caribbean.
Go to commentsJust thought for a moment you might have gathered some commonsense from a southerner or a NZer and shut up. But no, idiots aren't smart enough to realise they are idiots.
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