After what I watched last Saturday, I am convinced more and more that our Pumas must start playing in other championships so they can obtain more familiarity with international competitions. At least we did not loose like England in the first march with the South Africans in such unjustifiable way, but nobody is perfect and you have the chance now to smash them, this is what we would like to see after the shameful way that they had behaved last Saturday, with the New Zealander referee who had only eyes for the Pumas mistakes and he did not see the rudness the lack of fair play of many of the Boks including their star Habana. I would like to remind you that most of our players come from rugby amateur not professional, with the exception of those who I mentioned many times, that makes a difference. Since the beginning of the match, when they starting to sing our National Anthem, I noticed that most of our players were extremely nervous and tense, this was something that operated against our Pumas diminishing their chances. Those who had played much better were the ones who are playing in Europe in these days. In spite of my lack of personal experience with rugby (my brothers had played like Felipe Contempomi at the Cardinal Newman, Irish Christian brothers), I love it and I hope that they will be able to play other international tournaments in the future, depending mainly in the rest of the nations to accept them in those cups. Our Pumas had lost this match, but we are still extremely proud of them, they are our heroes and this defeat with such powerful rival will not diminish what they had done during the World Cup. God bless them, and I believe confidently that this cup will help us to have much more rugby players in our country, and new Pumas will give us a victory in the near future, perhaps some of the same team that had played this evening. Thanks to the huge wage of Irish, English and Scots immigrants rugby started being played 150 years ago in Argentina. So thanks again to all journalists like Mike and Brendan of the Daily Telegraph and many English rugby fans (like you Matt) for their fairness and for all your kind words, I wish you a great victory over the Springboks, thanks to God you will not have the same partial New Zealander referee that we had last Saturday.
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