All Blacks 2025
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@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:
Why did Piutau end up leaving NZ? I seem to recall he was an absolute stud.
Was it just a case of the ABs being stacked with back 3 talent or did he fall out with the coaching staff?
Was basically the highest paid player in the world for a good 5 year period. Ulster, Bristol and Wasps paid him top dollar.
And he also left prematurely, which wasnt the norm.
He had loads of good rugby left in him.
Thats why I was comparing Toeava to him.
Charles eked out a great career, albeit not on these shores.
Toeava was a gun but his body failed him. Could have been an all time great.
Could do it all (and maybe that was part of the problem).
His ommision from the 2015 RWC was contentious wasnt it? Because I think he did not leave for the NH until after the tournament.
Obviously Ben Smith & Savea were nailed down starters but I think Naholo was coming off an injury and NMS was like an up and comer but a bit of an unknown quantity.
I could be wrong on the above but I just remember thinking it was crazy that such a talent could not get into the squad.
I remember talk from the coaches , something about his skillset , they thought he played left better than right ,
Jules was the incumbent there and was automatic , and they picked NMS and Naholo to have a shoot out it to play right ,thats how i remember their reasoning ,
But yeah a great talent and one that got away , I remember the omission of Dagg at the time to be a bigger shock to most though
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couple of "oh fuck another year of this shit?" pics in there
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@KiwiMurph Amazing that they want to persist with a player who is poor at the core roles - ball carrying, defence.
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@KiwiMurph everyone else wearing t-shirts, Jordan wearing a hoodie. Quelle surprising.
I'll let Blackadder off as the long sleeves are probably hiding a protective bodysuit.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
@KiwiMurph everyone else wearing t-shirts, Jordan wearing a hoodie. Quelle surprising.
I'll let Blackadder off as the long sleeves are probably hiding a protective bodysuit.
Jordan hurt himself playing cricket the other night. He needs to hide the bruises
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
@KiwiMurph Amazing that they want to persist with a player who is poor at the core roles - ball carrying, defence.
Yeah but he covers fullback and first five
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@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:
Anybody have a clue who these two guys are that Jordan's talking to? I have a hunch about both but that hunch just seems unlikely so maybe I'm just not seeing who they actually are.
Two more visitors from Christchurch?
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Unsure who those guys with Jordan are, but these camps almost always only involve players who were in squads in 2025 (generally guys who actually played) and don't tend to exclude anyone who was picked in the most recent squad.
I wouldn't read too much into who was there.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
@frugby said in All Blacks 2025:
@Bones The right one is Hotham
Another strike against Jordan, he's a fucking midget.
Hotham is listed at 1.81cm, so not quite 6ft
Must make Jordan about 4 ft 11 in that photo
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@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:
@Trig said in All Blacks 2025:
I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box
I guess this makes the most sense? The box-thing's a little weird, though.
too slim to be Lord?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
too slim to be Lord?
Lord is in another photo, different shirt and different hair.
In another photo, Hotham can be seen wearing the hat and shirt-combo. Still a very strange picture, though. Probably just a confusing perspective through angle and focal length.
