NZ vs Argentina LIVE

1 min - early pressure from Argies as they kick to Savea's corner.
2 min - holding in the ruck allows us to clear our lines. Dan smashes it upfield. All good.
3 min - peno from Wayne Barnes. Dan should be able to slot this. But I've seen him miss from in front before, so we'll see.

Straight through - it's 3-0. That's a good start.

ooooooo - kick through for Milner-Skudder to chase and the argie fullback touches down. 5 metre scrum..... let's see...

Black boots -- looking good.

free kick - taking another scrum. Nothing from the scrum but a peno looming....
Julian's lost his boot out wide.

Penalty for offside - Aaron takes it quickly and Lobbe stops him moving forward. He's OFFFFFFFF!!!!  In the bin baby.

10min - Dan with the penalty and ... through. 6-0.

Deep kick off from the argies. Dane to throw in and we've won that. Dan clears well.

Tina working it in midfield. Side to side a bit.

Ben Smith AWESOME in defence, picks up a bouncing ball in the 22 and beats a dozen people.

14min - random penalty to Tina for something. One of their boys is down...

kick goes into our 22. We pick up the loose ball, but Barnes gives another penalty for something. Then marches us 10 metres for something else.... Then we go back for something else - a knock on... Chaos. Scrum to the Blacks.

17mins - cleared downfield halfway between the 10m and Tina's 22m. We win the throw. Worked out well and there's another offside. Dan to take the kick.

18 mins - Dan 9-Tina 0

20 mins - we're back in midfield after the kick off. Tina working the ball around well.

21 mins  - TRY to Tina. We looked terrible there for a bit. Not sure what was going on. Losing the battle up front to their big forwards. Their big no. 4 scores. Still a man down too.

22 mins - the kick is good. Dan 9 - Tina 7

23 mins- scrum on their 10m. The scrum is a mess. Peno to Tina. Blood all over Franks face. Trouble......?

24 mins - they win the lineout, but Tina lose the ball. Carter clears upfield and its kick chase. Back to where we began.

25 mins - bomb from Dan but Julian misses the leap - not ready.... Tina penalised for diving over the top. We kick to the 22.

26mins - win the lineout. close to a try but Milner-Skudder can't combine with Wightlock.

28 mins - mistakes everywhere. Clown time. Penalty to dropsy stuff. There's a scrum.

29 mins - stadium refereeing arrives. Richie's in the bin for tripping. Dick.
Tina to kick for goal - Sanchez strikes it well and Tina's in the lead. 9-10

30 mins - from the kickoff. Tina clears and we start again at halfway.

31mins - we look a bit rubbish throwing the ball around and Tina gets the ball, but they drop it with the overlap looming.... lucky...

33 mins - pressure on Tina's line but we've lost it forward. Defensive scrum.

35 mins - break from their lines and charge down field.

36 mins - Conrad is OFF!!!!! Barnes sends the GABEVER off. We are officially fucked!

37 mins - Sanchez gets the kick and Tina move further in front. We're rattled. 9-13.

38 mins - Camera pans to Steve Hansen - better be getting ready to resign....

39 mins - Richie's back on. Penalty to us. This'll be it for the half. Dan to kick....

it's good. 12-13 Tina lead.

HALF - TIME.

over to the analysts. But we look shit.

Conrad will come on 6 minutes into the second half and then we have got to cut down the mistakes and keep everyone on the field till the end.

SECOND HALF

40MINS -  we start again. High kick up. Savea wallows after it. Not good enough from him so far.

Tina has it and they pile the pressure on again.

We've been pinged for offside. Not sure who it was - replay reveals nothing. Sanchez to kick at goal....it's good. 12-16

Camera pans to GABEVER - looking sad in sin bin land.  :-(

From the kickoff, Tina kick deep and we play kick chase.

43mins - Milner-Skudder saves the day with a miracle pickup in the corner. We look buggered and tired.

44 mins - Argies kick it out on the full after a good turnover. We get away with that and an attacking lineout.

Early changes as Woodcock and Nonu come off. SBW and Romano on??? I think.

SBW makes a break. Milner-Skudder drops it on the line. Fuckwit.

46mins - Conrad's back. We should be ok now. Everybody keep calm. Defensive scrum following that drop on the line..

47mins - Tina get the penalty as our scrum cocks up. Decent clearance up field.

49mins - Barnes pings us for knocking on. Yet it was the argies who lost it forward. Everyone stares in disbelief at Barnes.

50 mins - Nehe's day ends and BB is on. Ben Smith to wing. Sounds good to me.

51mins - SBW drops it. Argies have the chance to clear but we were playing advantage apparently, so we're back to a Tina scrum on about the 22m.

52min - quick ball. but it's cleared downfield and we start again.

55 mins - loads of pressure on their line but we cock up again. Barnes brings us back for a penalty.

56 mins - we kick for the corner? Win the lineout, drive straight and Smith A appears with the ball to score without being touched!!!!

TRY! 17-16

The kick is good. Dan kicking well today. 19-16

59mins - A complete mess from the kick off and BB touches down in goal for a 22m dropout.

60mins- Conrad penalised going for a high ball in their corner. Strange.

62 mins - forward pass!!! with the line looming we cock up again. The mistakes are mind-blowing today.

64mins - Kaino makes a great turnover penalty and Sam Cane the BOP man is on for Kaino.

65 mins - more drops. The line beckons and Sam Cane drops this time. That's three certain tries ruined now.

66 mins - Sam Cane on the end of a nice move and he dots down. 24-16 Dan gets the kick 26-16.

67 mins - SBW is making all the difference it seems this half - finding space with Conrad and we are starting to see some results.

67 mins - BB knocks on from the kickoff but forgets about it and 'scores' a try.... hmmm. Wonder what's going through his head. Loads more subs - A Smith off for Perenara and the old warhorse the Kevster is on for Coles.

69 mins - decent possession for Tina but she kicks it long and we're back into their half for a scrum. errr. lineout, my brain is frazzled.

70 mins - close!! Kick up from Carter for Conrad to chase but it's picked up by one of them. Penalty. Earlier brilliant work from the forwards is a massive rolling maul set that up.

72 mins - close again but an excellent turnover by the argies and they clear their lines. We;ve got it again though.

73 mins - bit of madness as the ball refuses to go out and everyone looks a bit knackered. SBW finally finds the line around Tina's 22m.

74 mins - lineout to Tina. But they make a bit of a mess of the following possession and knock it forward. Everybody looks happy for a bit of a break.

75 mins - Ben with a chance to score out wide but a nice tackle and the ball goes out.

77 mins - Good skills out wide but somehow we're pinged for a knock on...didn't see it but a scrum it is. Clock winding down stuff going on now.

80mins - Game over. Nothing much happened at the end.

We won...ish.

Well, that was tense and not much fun. There's a good team somewhere in the All Blacks but it isn't what we thought at the beginning. Argies much better than we thought previously too. Only the bench wasn't good enough to keep the good work of the first half going.