Danny Care: I don't buy Argentina reaction to Tom Curry incident - they're just cross they blew the finale

The situation with Juan Cruz Mallia being injured by Tom Curry's tackle towards the end of England v Argentina last weekend - it's just such an unfortunate injury. You see hundreds of tackles like that every game. Obviously, Tom got it slightly late. For me, it was a penalty, and only a penalty. I didn't see it as anything more than that. And Curry probably shouldn't have done it, because it did then put his team under a lot of pressure, and they could have lost the game. So he'll be disappointed with himself for that.

But in no way, shape or form did he ever intend to injure Mallia. It was just a back-rower putting pressure on a 10 who's about to kick the ball. That's meat and drink for them, they love being able to put a shot on the 10. And some refs would have given that as a late shot, some may have let it go. So, I think he's half a second late with that, but he definitely didn't mean to injure him.

And then all the stuff that has come out afterwards, Felipe Contepomi calling him a bully, and him pushing Contepomi in the tunnel - I don't buy that. I can understand Contepomi's point of view that his team have now gone down to 14, his player's got injured, it turns out to be a bad injury, which unfortunately is the outcome. But I'd imagine a lot of his frustrations were probably that his team didn't go on and win the game when they had a lineout seven meters out to win it, with all that momentum. It sounds like he's gone to approach Tom in the tunnel, and Tom's tried to get away and pushed him away, and it's then caused a bit of a melee.

But knowing Curry like I do, he's a lovely lad, a great lad off the pitch, leaves everything on the pitch, he's a great person off it. I've seen Tom Curry melt people in tackles when he wants to hit them hard. That wasn't one of those. Unfortunately, it's just resulted in a bad injury for a brilliant player, and you can understand why the Argentinians are annoyed, but the reaction that we've seen towards Tom isn't justified by his actions on the pitch.

I think England's scrum is up there with the very, very best. And they can handle an awful lot. But what the Springboks did at the weekend against Ireland was almost flex their muscles a bit to show the rest of the world that 'we can do something at scrum time that none of you can do, and none of you can live with. You can have a go, but this is our point of difference still'. The same happened in the World Cup in 2023. They used it as their not-so-secret weapon. They like you to know that they can dominate you physically. It's rugby in its purest form.

They took Ireland apart last weekend - they took a British and Irish Lions pack pretty much apart - and made them look incredibly normal and average. So I don't really know how you stop that, other than fight fire with fire, and you've just got to somehow try and get some parity, and hope that you don't have to scrum too many times against them.

I think tactically, England are in a brilliant place in terms of their kicking game, attack, defence, the whole package looks great at the minute. And to beat Argentina, when it was looking like they might lose in the last minute; it would have been really annoying for England if they'd have lost that. It would have just stifled the momentum and all that feel-good. The fans are fully on the English side at the minute, which is brilliant, and so it was great that England found a way to get that win at the end. The momentum that will give them going to the Six Nations is huge.

And then they're going to get to play South Africa now, away in the Nations Championship next summer, which is going to be unbelievable. I think that's the game that people really want to see now. I know the world rankings would probably say otherwise, but a lot of people are saying that they are the best two teams in the world right now. They get to see that in July, which is huge, and all England can do is just keep doing what they're doing, keep trying to knock up wins.

The next goal, obviously, is the Six Nations. For me, I think that team is good enough to win the Six Nations, and good enough to win a Grand Slam. That's the next level for this team. And if they do that and go into the South Africa game, you'd be like, 'OK, we fancy it'. 2025, obviously, has been an unbelievable year for English rugby, but I think 2026 is going to be more important.

Wales have improved this autumn, 100% they have. They look more dangerous in attack. They look like they've got some structures in place there, they look like lads are singing off the same hymn sheet, that they know what they're trying to do. Whereas I think in the Six Nations, watching them against England in particular, it was just stark that it looked like there were lads out there not knowing what to do, not knowing where to run, not knowing what their game plan was.

Now you can see what they're trying to do, which is a great start. And they caused New Zealand a lot of problems. They really did. New Zealand are still one of the two, three best teams in the world. That's a great starting point for them. I'm so glad for them that they did manage to get that win over Japan, because if they hadn't done that, that would have been a real tough one for Steve Tandy and his new coaches to get over.

But they're showing some great signs. They've got to shore up their defence, and I'm sure that's something they'll be looking at, because if you concede that many points, it just puts so much more pressure on your attack. If you're letting in five tries, you've got to go and score six, and that's tough in international rugby. But they've got some brilliant players. Tomos Williams, for me, is still one of the best scrum-halves in the world. Louis Rees-Zammit coming back gives them some zip. Blair Murray at full-back, I've got a lot of time for him - I think he's a really skilful rugby player. He kicks the ball well, reads the game well, he's strong, he's brave. And Jac Morgan, hopefully, might be back for the Six Nations, which would be huge. But even without him, their pack looked more tight, a bit more dynamic, a bit more together.

Hopefully they don't get many injuries, because their playing pool obviously isn't as strong as England's, and if they can stick together, come the Six Nations, that first game against England at the Allianz Stadium, watch out, because they'll be hurting from what happened last year.

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