Hugo Porta proclaims "Great" Cruden

It's official, all time Argentinian legend who kept the ball on a string and terrorised the world with his outrageous long range goal kicking has proclaimed Aaron Cruden as one of the greats.

It's nice to see my claim backed up by someone with a bit of experience behind him and it just goes to confirm what I've said all along.

Porta noticed that Cruden has superior running ability and offers more threat at the line than Carter and said that with Cruden starting it appears hopes of a win for Argentina are too much to ask.

GE, you really need to post links when you're reporting actual news (rather than the usual hokum).

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/sport/9214171/Hugo-Porta-drops-praise-on-Aaron-Cruden

Porta was fantastic. Glad to have seen him play when he toured here. A true one man band like no other.

Cruden and an upcoming Barrett are nicely filling the gaps an ever absent DC is always creating. We dont miss DC and Mccaw so often these days as we expect one or both not to be playing though McCaw training full out yesterday was a positive sign for the boks- theyll need both Read and Mccaw and with Messam/ Luatua/ Cane thats a formidable 3.