Eire head coach Andy Farrell says Felipe Contepomi has achieved a “magnificent” job with Argentina forward of Friday’s Check match in Dublin.
Former Leinster fly-half Contepomi left his teaching position with the Irish province to affix Michael Cheika’s Pumas backroom workforce.
However having changed the Australian following final 12 months’s World Cup, the 47-year-old has overseen some spectacular outcomes, together with Rugby Championship wins over New Zealand and double world champions South Africa.
“They’re extra of a whole workforce, that is for positive. They are not backs and forwards anymore, they are a workforce that performs an thrilling model of rugby,” mentioned Farrell.
“It is wonderful to see how far more comfy on the ball the forwards are and the interlink between the backs and the forwards is seamless.
“On the similar time they nonetheless have the DNA, the preventing spirit and the harmful, thrilling outdoors backs as properly.”
Farrell added: “Felipe’s achieved an impressive job. You may see the cohesion they’ve in how they wish to play.
“The toughest factor at top-level sport is consistency and rightly so, they’re incomes the suitable to be, in our thoughts, in the identical sort of bracket as the sport we have been speaking about final week.
“Their performances and outcomes during the last 12 months actually warrant that.