All Blacks 2021
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@mofitzy_ said in All Blacks 2021:
Would've like to see more power in the outside backs e.g. Rayasi. Is Fainga'anuku too slow to be a wing at international level?
Yeah - I wouldn't have minded seeing either of those two in there as a project.
But, both still make a lot more errors than you'd want from a fully-fledged AB.
Raw talent though.
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The more you look at the squad the worse it gets.
Surely the one advantage of playing Tonga and Fiji is you can blood some newbies.
So they took last year's poor winger group and gave them another go minus the unavailable Clarke?
They replaced Clarke with who exactly? Ennor?
Cripes it's infuriating.
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@kiwimurph I don't really mind any of the individuals that have been picked per se.
The big deficiency - especially without Clarke (and even Goodhue) - is the scarcity of power players.
We could have Smith, Mo'unga, Bridge, Havili, Ennor, Reece, McKenzie!
All decent in their own right, but as a collective, Snow White might be on the selection panel!
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402 days since Argentina last played. Destroyed the ABs in the worst performance I've seen since the Mains era. Lomax smashed up front, Frizell had the worst performance by an AB 6 since Todd Blackadder, and actually probably a lot further back. Really hope neither of those bums ever play for NZ again.
This type of effort can never be tolerated again. Foster should probably have resigned after this disaster.
Those are the stakes when you select favourite project players and "workrate" chumps.
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In the rematch, Akira Ioane handled Pablo Matera to such a degree that he was on top physically. This was a big part of the ABs dominating possession.
After the SR-TT final, Aaron Smith noted that they were surprised by how well the Blues controlled the wider channels they targeted, and in fact were on top physically out there. The less than astute observers of NZ rugby didn't notice that Akira Ioane was dominating collisions on defence and offence in those channels - his role for the Blues - and thought he had an average game. They are also bums. They want the inept Frizell to start again. They are stupid and have the memory of a goldfish.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:
@frank Being injured?
Edited to add that their selection is consistent with the practice the ABs have followed for years, i.e. you can't lose your spot in the squad if you're injured.
So a couple of injured safe white boys come back, do jack shit, and get selected. Foster loves mediocre.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:
@frank White boys? WTF?
It's a phrase used here in the past (begun by me I think) to describe no flair safe players (who often happen to be Cantabrians and white- but not always) Think George Bridge, Aaron Mauger kind of vibe. Shannon Frizell falls into the category of a safe brown boy.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:
@frank I don't see the need to add skin colour. Just keep it to "safe".
Nah - safe white boy is way funnier.
