All Blacks 2025

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:

@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

It's just the classic NZ problem of having a surplus of talent and not enough jerseys to go around.

Eh? Our halfbacks have gone off the boil, we're so desperate we're poaching locks from the Netherlands and props from Australia, (props from Australia!) we don't have a clear, class-leading 10, still not settled on the loosies, and we're still plundering Fiji for backs. Oh and our wings have Japanese names or need to learn how to run backwards without falling over, we have to send our 12 to Ireland to learn how to play in the midfield and our coach has the overwhelming international experience of coaching Brazil.
It is doom and gloom, I tell you!

No it's not. Razor jettisoned Blackadder and Papalii so now there's just one flavour of Vanilla in the squad in Jacobsen.

[nostrildamus]

@brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

In that PR article Sotutu basically said he wants to focus on the job at hand and not worry about things outside of his control.

Acknowledges there is a lot competition.

Played the questions with a straight bat really.

Considering all the rumours, the solid investigative journalism on this has been ... ah, don't know...

[zedsdeadbaby]

Well that’s because there’s no story (despite the rumours) and I don’t even think Hoskins knows what he wants to do.

Nor does he really say a lot when he speaks - as seen above.

[Bones]

So anyone know how to get hospitality tickets for springboks in Welly? The AB Pass tickets are a bit oof and on the official website it doesn't actually say what premium is - any idea?

[Chris B.]

@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:

Well that’s because there’s no story (despite the rumours) and I don’t even think Hoskins knows what he wants to do.

Nor does he really say a lot when he speaks - as seen above.

Surely that can't be true? There must be a conspiracy!

I mean - I heard the only reason Dalton isn't in the team is that he head-butted Razor!

Hoskins - I heard Hoskins threw Razor out a four-storey window for giving his wife a foot massage!

That one's specially for you Zed! (Excellent choice of name!)

[Kiwiwomble]

not really much different to last year, no stripes on the shoulders

[KiwiMurph]

@Kiwiwomble an improvement none the less. Removal of shoulder stripes is good

[gt12]

Make the collar black and we’ll be talking.

Hopefully they are saving that idea for the next WC.

[Kiwiwomble]

@gt12 i like the white collar...just needs to be a little smaller, like the black ferns one IMO

[canefan]

The collar is an abomination. It's like they grabbed a collar off a ccc 1990s jersey and attached it without any consideration of scale

[Kiwiwomble]

wow...the bar for terms like "abomination" has really lowered

[canefan]

@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2025:

wow...the bar for terms like "abomination" has really lowered

What is the world coming to If I can't use a little hyperbole on the fern?

[Kiwiwomble]

@canefan touche....as you were

[booboo]

Collar is shit

[BorderJB]

@Bones it’s allblackstravelandhospitality.com now I believe.

[Jet]

@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2025:

not really much different to last year, no stripes on the shoulders

Im a sucker for a bit of merch, I spend frivolously, but I have bought none of the Altrad gear.

It's absolutely hideous.

[canefan]

There was a time when Adidas made a decent ABs kit. But that was some time ago

[Bones]

@canefan my go to.

[pakman]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

@canefan my go to.

I've never seen anyone else with one.

[Bones]

@pakman said in All Blacks 2025:

@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

@canefan my go to.

I've never seen anyone else with one.

I'm a dominant force.