icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
SCRUM Grizzly veterans Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Martin Scelzo are Argentina’s equivalent of the famous Pontypool front-row of the 1970s and will be relishing exposing on-going Welsh problems at the scrum.
icWales (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Grizzly veterans Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Martin Scelzo are Argentina’s equivalent of the famous Pontypool front-row of the 1970s and will be relishing exposing on-going Welsh problems at the scrum.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
UGO MONYE FULL-BACK Discomfiture under the high ball was exploited and he carried on dropping. Never bottled an attempt, but looked like a wing out of position until he was moved in the second period – 4. MARK CUETO WING England are at the stage where they need to take every chance. Should have scored early on after Juan Fernandez Lobbe's knock-on, but lacked both pace and composure. Made a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Hit refresh for the latest entries or set the page to update automatically using the button below. Email any thoughts, questions or gags over to simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk Simon will be here from 2.15pm. In the meantime, here's Shaun Edwards's tactical breakdown of today's game. What makes Argentina's tight five so good? Forget the tactical nuances, Argentina are in town and the big men love nothing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Shaun Edwards's tactical breakdown ahead of England v Argentina Forget the tactical nuances, Argentina are in town and the big men love nothing better than throwing their weight around – actually weight and a fair bit of technical know-how when it comes to scrum time. While England have struggled to find a front row the three Argentinians, Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Martín Scelzo,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
• Prop plans to exploit England's front-row inexperience • Argentina no longer wear the underdog label England's prop Duncan Bell is a marked man and it says a lot about the relative inexperience of Martin Johnson's front row for Saturday's Test against Argentina that the Bath forward, whose last international appearance was in 2005, is the only one of the three that Pumas hooker Mario Ledesma...
Keo.co.za (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Santiago Phelan has named a strong pack for their match against England on Saturday, but their backline has been hit by injuries. The Argentine front row of Martin Scelzo, Mario Ledesma and Rodrigo Roncero is known as one of the most powerful forces at scrum time in world rugby and will provide a big challenge for [...]
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Argentina are set to give England's front row a thorough workout at Twickenham on Saturday in the opening Test of their tour of Britain. France-based trio Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Martin Scelzo form one of the most powerful scrummaging units in world rugby. But, behind the pack, the team announced by coach Santiago Phelan on Wednesday will be without injured playmakers Juan Martin Hernandez...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Guardian writers pick their world best XVs ahead of the autumn internationals Ahead of the start of this year's autumn internationals, our correspondents have picked their world XVs. The results over the coming weeks may change their minds, but have they got their current selections right? Robert Kitson The hits may be getting bigger but class is permanent. It will be interesting, even so, to see...
My Buenos Aires Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
The Argentine national Rugby team, Los Pumas , will meet the French team Barbarians on a friendly match on June 20, 2009 , 4.00 pm, at Velez Sarsfield Stadium (Av. Juan B. Justo & ALvarez Jonte, Buenos Aires). This match has been organized by the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) as a tribute to the Argentine team for obtaining the bronze medal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as a farewell match...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 15/01/2009
Pumas prop Martin Scelzo will make his long awaited return after being named in the Clermont starting XV to host Montauban.
Rugby World Cup News (Free subscription) | 18/10/2007
Argentina coach Marcelo Loffreda has made four changes in the pack for the third-place play-off game versus France on Friday night at the Parc des Princes Paris KO 2000 BST. Alberto Vernet Basualdo, Martin Durand, Omar Hasan and Rimas Alvarez Kairelis come in, whilst Mario Ledesma, Martin Scelzo, [...]
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