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    @tim said in All Blacks 2021:

    The tight five selections for the next squad seem pretty locked in now (Moody is out), except for 3rd tight head prop.

    Props

    Karl Tu'inukuafe
    Aidan Ross
    Alex Hodgman
    Nepo Laulala
    Ofa Tu'ungafasi
    ?

    Second best TH scrummager in NZ is Mafileo. I'd be quite pleased to have him and Nepo with Lomax or Ta'avao as third TH, and play Karl T, Ross and Ofa at LH. Blues and Chiefs have had most impressive scrums recently.

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    @sparky said in All Blacks 2021:

    @duluth If he has been a bit injured all season then that would explain the drop off in his performance. Agree that Patrick Tuipulotu looked sharp yesterday. Worth his place in the squad if fully fit. If not there's Vaii or PPP.

    Not sure if numbers will permit, but I'd like to see both PPP and Vaa'i in wider training squad.

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    I wonder whether the likes of Codie Taylor, Sam Whitelock and Aaron Smith really need to be involved in the forthcoming Tonga and Fiji tests. All have played big minutes in Super Rugby this year. I'd rather give them some recuperation time so that they are good to go for the Rugby Championship and the October/November tests in Europe.

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    @pakman said in All Blacks 2021:

    @sparky said in All Blacks 2021:

    @duluth If he has been a bit injured all season then that would explain the drop off in his performance. Agree that Patrick Tuipulotu looked sharp yesterday. Worth his place in the squad if fully fit. If not there's Vaii or PPP.

    Not sure if numbers will permit, but I'd like to see both PPP and Vaa'i in wider training squad.

    I wouldn't be surprised to see 5 locks named in the main squad with some rotation in the home tests. Parkinson will get to impress via the Maori. Lomax could also be part of that squad to guarantee playing time.

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    @bones Yeah never been on the Ennor bandwagon myself. Think a few solid domestic seasons is what he needs.

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    @sparky said in All Blacks 2021:

    I wonder whether the likes of Codie Taylor, Sam Whitelock and Aaron Smith really need to be involved in the forthcoming Tonga and Fiji tests. All have played big minutes in Super Rugby this year. I'd rather give them some recuperation time so that they are good to go for the Rugby Championship and the October/November tests in Europe.

    Yeah I agree. This is the perfect time to blood young talent.

    And it may make the games slightly fairer...

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    I like ennor (not claiming he should be an AB yet), sometimes i wonder if he suffers from being the crusaders, he might stand out a bit more in one of the other teams

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    @bones said in All Blacks 2021:

    @gt12 haha yeah I played with and was coached by his dad, Fritz and Salesi were down running around at most 7s trainings in the summer, fair to say they lived rugby!

    I remember he turned out for Scotland in a bowl final at a 7s tournament many years ago after Fiji had been eliminated. What the fuck was up with the rules in those days ?

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    @mn5 There is a South American somewhere with a sevens world championship medal won with NZ. Uruguayan I think.

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    @mikedogz said in All Blacks 2021:

    @mn5 There is a South American somewhere with a sevens world championship medal won with NZ. Uruguayan I think.

    And Scott (can’t remember surname) ex NZ 7s coach debuted for a team other than NZ in welly, back in the day. No one cared as long as you got a team together!

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    @machpants Scott Waldrom?

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    @mikedogz said in All Blacks 2021:

    @mn5 There is a South American somewhere with a sevens world championship medal won with NZ. Uruguayan I think.

    The year we had Cullen and Lomu in the same team at the HK Sevens that there was this bizarre rule that you could select one player from a losing quarterfinalist side.
    We chose Stephen Brink of South Africa, and there he was sitting on the bench wearing a black jersey.

    The Uruguayan's name is Benjamin Bono.

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    @african-monkey said in All Blacks 2021:

    @bones Yeah never been on the Ennor bandwagon myself. Think a few solid domestic seasons is what he needs.

    Depending on what they are looking for from the 4th midfielder, he could make it as they know him. So, assuming ALB, Havili, and Roane are locked in, do they want another ‘true’ midfielder (PUJ) or another center 3/4 (Ennor). With Ioane there I’m not sure there is the space for Ennor. I think he competes with Ioane for that spot and right now could use more time at NPC to get some more game time.

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    @kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2021:

    I like ennor (not claiming he should be an AB yet), sometimes i wonder if he suffers from being the crusaders, he might stand out a bit more in one of the other teams

    I reckon it's the opposite. He's a good player but there is an assumption that if the Crusaders selected him then he must be really good. Plus the fact tat it is easier to shine in a good team.
    I don't see him offering anything head and shoulders above others.
    He's like ALB when ALB is playing averagely.

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    @crucial yeah, could be that too, would like to see him for someone else to see

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    I’m shocked by this ‘revelation’

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/125307468/fiji-rugby-gm-confirms-europebased-stars-such-as-semi-radradra-may-miss-all-blacks-tests

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    If only there were heaps of top quality Fijians playing in a local professional competition they could select. Instead of traversing the globe during a pandemic.

    Oh, wait, there are 11 born and bred Fijians already playing Super Rugby TT.

    Oh, double wait. They've been central-contracterised.

    .

    Although 8 of the 11 are wingers, so couldn't form a good team out of them, still.

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    @rapido What? If Fiji want to pick them and they haven't been capped elsewhere, they'll play. But the real good ones go to Eu for the moolah

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    @machpants said in All Blacks 2021:

    @rapido What? If Fiji want to pick them and they haven't been capped elsewhere, they'll play. But the real good ones go to Eu for the moolah

    No, plenty of them won't.
    They'll be absolutely schtum on national availability, and no 'nice' NZ journalist would ask them.

    To their bosses they'll either genuinely or pretendingly say they maybe wanna want to play for NZ or Aus so that they stay inside the NZ and Aus central contracting system.

    So, we complain about NH clubs not releasing players while ignoring that NZ & Aus franchises remove release from the equation before it has had much of a chance to germinate.

    Lots of PI players going through the NZ and Aus systems spend 4 or 5 years of the prime of their careers pretending they don't want to play for a PI nation, then do as soon as they leave to Europe, where occasionally their clubs make it difficult for them, and we complain. But, we are a funnel, the Welcome Bay roundabout of PI rugby.

    Same discussion from a week or 2 ago, in fact, probably exact same thread.

    See, you fluffybunnies don't read my posts .... 🙂

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    @rapido said in All Blacks 2021:

    the Welcome Bay roundabout of PI rugby

    fucking not bad

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