France v All Blacks
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in France:
Any chance of Cruden at 10 and Barrett at 12? Probably won't happen but it would be interesting to see. I'd love to see Jodie thrown in but they won't risk that.
Can't be arsed going through the team lists for each game, but this must be some kind of record for changes in the centre pairing. Reckon if ALB hadn't been such a revelation we might have been in a bit of strife.
I really want Luatua back at 6. Reckon they need his mongrel there. I just don't think Squire is the answer.
I think the concern is the physicality loss if Luatua and Savea are both on. Both good strong players, both lack that impact in the collision.
I doubt much will change for this game. This is the last hurdle for the year and not a time for trying something new.
My guess (assuming Fekitoa out)
Moody
Coles
Franks
BBBR
Whitelock
Kaino
Todd
Read
TJP
BB
Crotty (if available) otherwise Seta
ALB
Savea
Naholo
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@mariner4life said in France:
I'm really surprised they are going with that away strip
at least it's not grey
It is still very ordinary though and why introduce it right before a match with France...
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@mariner4life said in France:
I'm really surprised they are going with that away strip
at least it's not grey
It is still very ordinary though and why introduce it right before a match with France...
Don't worry. Aura is back after bitch-slapping that skank Mystique back where she came from.
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@SimonAdd_2 said in France:
Re: Cruden, has he struggled to reach his pre-RWC/injury form, or is it just that Barrett has hit even higher heights?
Bit hard to reach the heights when you aren't getting the chances. BB has deserved his chances so no complaints there.
Could see the scenario in this game with Bender out injured that BB starts at 15 with Cruden at 10, especially if Crotty isn't available. This would allow Dagg to play the second fullback role instead of having two wingers and could see an all Chiefs 10/12/13 combo.
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IIRC, Crotty looked to be running about pretty freely in the warm up/down in Italy. Is his a concussion issue?
Calf wasn't it? Good news then.
Crotty ALB in the midfield.
Now, do you change the policy of having two guys in the back three that can act as fullback? It has worked very well for us and was shown up in Chicago when we changed from that.
If you want the two fullback thing then, given the available cattle, it's either Dagg/BB with Cruden at 10, or Dagg/DMac with BB at 10
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@SimonAdd_2 said in France:
the two most egregious,
Oh puhlease.
You mean the two that have have been committed by the murderous most tweeted about most publicized nasty fuckstick All Black offensive incidents?
THE most egregious was Sexton on Barrett where he went DELIBERATLY (did I spell that correctly?) for the head.
You claim to be "neutral" and I make a "joke" about non-AB fans being haters. But you perpatuate bullshit like that and "joke" is reality.
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@mariner4life said in France:
I'm really surprised they are going with that away strip
at least it's not grey
It is still very ordinary though and why introduce it right before a match with France...
I suspect Adidas had something to do with it.....
Given the strip France wore against the Wallabies which was the same design as the alternate AB strip, this will be a marketing dream for the three stripes.
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Is the jersey black and white or black and silver? I don't really like it, I prefer the classic.
Black and white. There's a picture of Read holding one earlier in the thread.
It looks terrible. Reminds me of those Blues jerseys that made it look like they were wearing bibs over their shirts.
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I assume they were told to look tough to try and take away from how gay the shirt is.