Arg - All Blacks, one way traffic so far

Already a non-stop 10 minute onslaught resisted in the second half. All Blacks just can't finish. Argies over 100 tackles now against the All Blacks 20 odd.

All Blacks destroying the Argie scrum all game long. No set piece platform for the Pumas.

Ardie powers over and it's 17-0. Could be the start of a rout, you can only tackle so much and for so long .

All Black props replaced and finally some love in the scrums for the Pumas.

Puma performance summed up in Will Jordan picking up an errant pass and scoring under the posts, should be 24-0. Argies a complete no show in this encounter. And now another intercept from Jordan makes it 31 -0.

83 minutes in and Argentina at least tries to win the handbags. No positives for Argentina from this game, they were outclassed from minute 1. The All Blacks might be concerned about the number of scoring opportunities they failed to finish. Could easily have been a 50 point game. As it is ABs score again in the 85th minute for a 38-0 win.

Didn't know about the changes to the Argie side, not really following rugby too closely at the moment. Little more perspective then.

Yes Pakie there were changes. Two weeks ago the Puma's defence was one of the best I've seen...not one missed tackle in the whole game and the forwards were in control and dynamite Sanchez was brilliant. I think that was very clever on Puma's coach's game plan...one way to close the AB's down but the AB's were not going to fall for this and went into aggressive attack from the beginning and their scrum work was superior.

Lovely gesture from the AB's to show respect for their opponents and Argentina's hero Diego Maradona...  

Could this rescue the coach? In which case the ABs would have been better off without a big win. Any coach that starts this way with the AB talent pool is not the man you want.

Two gruelling games and then having to face a resurgent All Blacks.

They looked tired in the first five minutes did the Pumas.

Resurgent? The RC is becoming a cripple fight, just like Super rugby. Standards are not what they used to be. The cracks are quite apparent now. 

Listen dolt - the RC teams dismantled England and Wales in the Final and the Bronze medal games in the WC  and they lost by huge margins.   If that represents dropping of standards  then the strongest NH teams must be leading in the dropping of standards race as well.   

Fact is that any Super Rugby team will beat most of the Club teams in Europe and for the rest they will be more than competitive,       

Actually, the NH sides have been breaking down the SH for a long time. What's the Bok record like against France the past two tests? Or Ireland (they've won 6 of the last 10 tests)? Wales at full strength would have very likely knocked the Boks out. They have beaten us two of the past three games. Even against England (our most favourable match up), we stand at we've won 3 of the last 6 tests, the Poms winning two of the last 3. That's not a winning trend.

Australia's away record is dysmal, and their record against the north is nothing remotely spectacular.

The big three doesnt exist anymore. 

If my auntie had balls she would have been my uncle.   The fact is that the Springboks went through decline in the period 2012 to  2017 and it took the top coach in the world  less than 18 months to get them on top.   

The fact is that one cannot analyze it the way you did.   Unlike the failed Meyer and Coetzee the Springboks improved vastly against all teams in the period Erasmus was coach,    

Against the Welsh in Washington Erasmus send a weakened squad  including only five regular Springboks to play them.   When the June 2018 series against the English was won - Erasmus  did the same experimenting  to identify talent,    

And the November 2018 test was lost because in the end Esterhuizen had a brain fart and the ref made a mistake and not award a penalty  against the English,   The Referee afterwards admitted he was wrong,  

Farcical to state what you did, without any factual proof that you are correct,   

"And the November 2018 test was lost because in the end Esterhuizen had a brain fart and the ref made a mistake and not award a penalty  against the English,   The Referee afterwards admitted he was wrong"

We lost that England test because Damian was ineffective with all of his possession. He then gifted a penalty which gave England the lead, and once in front they ran us ragged.That was the game. Esterhuizen has bettered Damian in each of his tests. To make matters worse for you, it was an errant throw which he had to pick up off the ground which lead to him cutting back in the opposite direction; the English rushed up and cut him off. Poor skills a hallmark of the José reign.