Pumas pounce on Namibia in nine-try romp

Mr Smit, 55, a banker, from Namibia’s capital, Windhoek, said: “We’ve attended all the games, Heinrich got about 60 minutes of the last game, but a few of our best players are not playing”.

Namibia played a full part in another performance of bravery and counter-attacking skill which gained them three tries to offset Argentina’s nine.

“The hospitality of people we have met has been very good although we have found things very expensive here”.

With Namibian centre JC Greyling in the sin-bin for a yellow-card, the African side were up against it, but managed to score a try of their own whilst Greyling was off the field, when Johan Tromp collected a lost ball to reduce the deficit to three.

The east Midlands has become their temporary home this autumn and they took no time at all to settle into their stride, Juan Martin Hernandez touching down in the opening minutes after a few fancy footwork on the right wing from Matias Moroni. However his last try in the competition actually came all the way back in 2003.

Argentina: 1-Lucas Noguera, 2-Julian Montoya, 3-Juan Pablo Orlandi, 4-Guido Petti, 5-Matias Alemanno, 6-Pablo Matera, 7-Javier Ortega Desio, 8-Facundo Isa, 9-Martin Landajo (captain), 10-Juan Martin Hernandez, 11-Horacio Agulla, 12-Juan Pablo Socino, 13-Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias, 14-Matias Moroni, 15-Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino.

It was a good day on the pitch for another No10, the Pumas’ back-up fly-half, Nico Sanchez, who landed eight of his 10 kicks to move to 51 points for the tournament – six clear of Japan’s Ayumu Goromaru in second place. Not surprisingly, he missed from out wide.

The Rugby World Cup has had a few lovely moments already, and today we witnessed yet another as Namibia’s Johnny Redelinghuys was handed the honour of taking his country’s final kick of the 2015 World Cup.

Argentina were enjoying themselves and Cubelli ran in another try but Namibia had the final say when Jantjies scored. We have hit milestones: Our scores (conceded) against Tier One nations have gone down, and also against Tier Two, and we have achieved our first World Cup point. “It’s been a progressive World Cup for us”.

“There’s been lots of progress made by the team, and the players take huge credit for that”.

Argentina should easily account for a Namibia side that half consists of amateurs and semi-professionals who play locally.