All Blacks Form XV
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Super Rugby's "offical" SRA team of the tournament ....Smith being absent kind of stands out
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@Kiwiwomble ALB??? maybe up until March....
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@Kiwiwomble Boshier and ALB? Is there a Chiefs quota?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks Form XV:
@Kiwiwomble Boshier and ALB? Is there a Chiefs quota?
affirmative action y'all!
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@Kiwiwomble These teams of the week/season are based on stats only.
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@Stargazer id love to know what stats
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks Form XV:
@Stargazer id love to know what stats
generally, attacking ones. Locks get picked for linebreaks and shit.
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Team I'd pick for an AB Test of players available for NvS game:
1.Moody 2. Taylor 3. Ofa T 4. S. Whitelock (c) 5. Patrick T 6. A. Ioane 7. A. Savea 8. H. Sotutu 9. A. Smith 10. R. Mo'unga 11. C. Clarke 12. ALB 13. J. Goodhue 14. W. Jordan 15. J. Barrett 16. A. Aumua 17. Hodgman 18. Laulala 19. Frizell 20. Papali'i. 21. TJP 22. B. Barrett 23. Umaga-Jensen
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks Form XV:
Super Rugby's "offical" SRA team of the tournament ....Smith being absent kind of stands out
Think TJP & Smith have both been outstanding at 9 with TJP slightly shading it overall.
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@shark said in All Blacks Form XV:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks Form XV:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks Form XV:
This gives me Kaino at lock vs Ireland flashbacks.
Terrific No.6 and great cover for lock in an injury situation - def not a starter at 4 or 5.
Which is the inverse of S Barrett. Quality starting lock and useful cover at 6 (some forget he filled that role very effectively several times before his ill-fated promotion to starting at 6).
The Barrett at 6 thing reminds me of Blair Larsen who was also a slightly undersized lock but just a little too clunky to play a full game at 6.
Larsen kept the jersey warm til Troy Flavell was ready. He did his job.
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@MN5 For Harbour, presumably? Because there was a several year gap between Larsen playing tests and Flavells' debut. Which isn't really keeping the jersey warm.
They're another inverse. Larsen was the guy more suited to lock who played probably more as a lumbering flanker for NZ, while Flavell was more suited to flanker but played lock for NZ.
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@shark said in All Blacks Form XV:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks Form XV:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks Form XV:
This gives me Kaino at lock vs Ireland flashbacks.
Terrific No.6 and great cover for lock in an injury situation - def not a starter at 4 or 5.
Which is the inverse of S Barrett. Quality starting lock and useful cover at 6 (some forget he filled that role very effectively several times before his ill-fated promotion to starting at 6).
The Barrett at 6 thing reminds me of Blair Larsen who was also a slightly undersized lock but just a little too clunky to play a full game at 6.
Not sure who is more insulted by that.
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@sparky said in All Blacks Form XV:
Team I'd pick for an AB Test of players available for NvS game:
1.Moody 2. Taylor 3. Ofa T 4. S. Whitelock (c) 5. Patrick T 6. A. Ioane 7. A. Savea 8. H. Sotutu 9. A. Smith 10. R. Mo'unga 11. C. Clarke 12. ALB 13. J. Goodhue 14. W. Jordan 15. J. Barrett 16. A. Aumua 17. Hodgman 18. Laulala 19. Frizell 20. Papali'i. 21. TJP 22. B. Barrett 23. Umaga-Jensen
Close. But Roane needs to be here somewhere.
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@sparky said in All Blacks Form XV:
Team I'd pick for an AB Test of players available for NvS game:
1.Moody 2. Taylor 3. Ofa T 4. S. Whitelock (c) 5. Patrick T 6. A. Ioane 7. A. Savea 8. H. Sotutu 9. A. Smith 10. R. Mo'unga 11. C. Clarke 12. ALB 13. J. Goodhue 14. W. Jordan 15. J. Barrett 16. A. Aumua 17. Hodgman 18. Laulala 19. Frizell 20. Papali'i. 21. TJP 22. B. Barrett 23. Umaga-Jensen
So Frizell to play at lock if SM or PT are injured ? It could be dangerous against SA.
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@cgrant said in All Blacks Form XV:
@sparky said in All Blacks Form XV:
Team I'd pick for an AB Test of players available for NvS game:
1.Moody 2. Taylor 3. Ofa T 4. S. Whitelock (c) 5. Patrick T 6. A. Ioane 7. A. Savea 8. H. Sotutu 9. A. Smith 10. R. Mo'unga 11. C. Clarke 12. ALB 13. J. Goodhue 14. W. Jordan 15. J. Barrett 16. A. Aumua 17. Hodgman 18. Laulala 19. Frizell 20. Papali'i. 21. TJP 22. B. Barrett 23. Umaga-Jensen
So Frizell to play at lock if SM or PT are injured ? It could be dangerous against SA.
Triple like!
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this one looks good, hasn't Boshier mainly played 6 though? i guess if he can get the run over from 6 then he should find 7 even easier
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks Form XV:
this one looks good, hasn't Boshier mainly played 6 though? i guess if he can get the run over from 6 then he should find 7 even easier
Not one Blues player in the backrow?
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@antipodean ive seen lots of questions about sotutu, imagine it was close between he and MMT but ard to claim form when injured for the last few weeks
