All Blacks 2021
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@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial we saw a couple of glimpses of what he was doing last year, so the potential is still there. He gets hit but just kinda keeps going as though he's wading through waist high water. Give him a game or two to get back used to rugby and throwing a slightly larger body around, I reckon we'll start to see his quality.
yeah, he definitely had a couple of runs (strides) with some tacklers hanging off or bouncing off him
I hope he'll get to at least train with the AB's, we see some people really respond to those kinds of opportunities
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I think our scrum looked a lot better with him in there too
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2021:
@cgrant said in All Blacks 2021:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2021:
My first stab at naming an AB team in 2021
- Moody ( By a country mile)
- Taylor
- Laulala
- Whitelock
- Scott Barrett (when's Lurch back?)
- Very open. Maybe Big Red.
- Sam Cane (c)
- Ardie Savea (Hoskins seems to have second season blues)
- Aaron Smith
- Richie Mo'unga
- Caleb Clarke (Needs to up his work rate)
- David Havili
- Jack Goodhue
- Will Jordan
- Jordie Barrett
- Aumua (If he gets fit)
- Karl T
- Ofa T
- Very open. Patrick T? Dunshea?
- Dalton Papalii
- Fakatava
- DMac
- Reiko Ioane
19 : PPP ?
Vaa'i?
Short memories peeps
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Interestingly Brodie has apparently trimmed down quite a bit in Japan according to Wayne Smith on the Breakdown, while this will be a good thing for his fitness and speed, seems like he may need to bulk up a bit when he returns.
I reckon there are a few locks who can't be far off, however with SW, SB, PT and TV, I'm guessing we won't see anyone other than a WTG role.
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@mofitzy_ “The game’s different over there, if you watch Kobe play at the moment and see Brodie Retallick – he’s down to 117 kgs because he’s got to be able to keep up with the game. He’s magnificent, he’s absolutely magnificent,” he added.
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The sacred All Blacks mauri stone has been handed over to the All Blacks Experience at SkyCity in central Auckland, where it will stay whenever the All Blacks are not playing.
The All Blacks Experience team will act as kaitiaki of the precious taonga, which accompanies the All Blacks wherever they play, at home or overseas. The stone embodies the team’s mana and offers them protection in their travels and on the field. -
How long has that been a thing?
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@antipodean ages as!
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2021:
How long has that been a thing?
have to say i thought the same thing
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2021:
How long has that been a thing?
Since the first ever newspaper article about Aura possibly being lost, I guess.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:
@antipodean ages as!
Really? I've never heard of it before. Interesting what passes me by sometimes.
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@kirwan said in All Blacks 2021:
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:
@antipodean ages as!
Really? I've never heard of it before. Interesting what passes me by sometimes.
Is it named aura?
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Team I'd like to see vs Italy :
J. Barrett
Jordan
P. Umaga-Jensen
Tupaea
Clarke
Mo'unga
Smith
A. Ioane
Papali'i
Robinson
Parkinson
Vai'i
Lomax
Taylor
MoodySub :
Aumua
Ross
Laulala
Whitelock
A. Savea
Weber
R. Ioane
McKenzie / HaviliThe Italians are not a menace so it's a nice opportunity to try a few new players, particularly in midfield where no perfect combination has been found so far, at lock where PPP and Vai'i could show what they are able to do, and at THP where Lomax could gain more confidence.
Aidan Ross is the form LHP and could start from the bench.
I am hesitating between Havili and Tupaea at second five. The latter is beginning to develop strongly while Havili is a talented all round player.
