All Blacks 2021

[Tim]

Rugby: Reinforcements set to return for the All Blacks

[Canes4life]

@tim good stuff, Savea is our best loose forward so that will only improve things. ALB coming in for Ioane at centre will sharpen up the backs aswell.

[sparky]

Foster fattening the players up. Might have been appropriate 30 years ago but pro athletes shouldn't be overdoing the dairy.

[sparky]

Eat lots of ice cream and you too could develop the slim, athletic physique of Ian Foster.

[booboo]

Oh for fuck sake @sparky that's just finding fault for the sake of it.

We're not going to lose a test because Ethan had some orange choc chip ice cream.

[booboo]

I miss orange choc chip ice cream...

[sparky]

@booboo I assume you've heard of the concept of a "joke"?

[booboo]

@sparky said in All Blacks 2021:

@booboo I assume you've heard of the concept of a "joke"?

If I believed it was I might have laughed

[sparky]

The scene as the All Blacks bus nears a dairy.

Foster: Fozzy needs foooood. Fozzy needs ice cream. Driver, pull over. I need fooooooooood.

Plumtree: What about the lads?

Foster: They can have ice cream too. Ethan can have triple scoop. And George Bridge can have a fourth scoop coz I like him.

Plumtree: Ice cream stop boys. But remember, don't push in front of the coach in the food queue. Ngani Laumape forgot that rule last year and look what happened to him.

[nostrildamus]

When Plumtree saaid they needed to be more physical I didn't realize they needed to bulk up with more ice cream...

[Bones]

@sparky

[sparky]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2021:

I miss orange choc chip ice cream...

I gave ice cream a few years ago on my dentist's advice. I don't miss it.

[voodoo]

@tim said in All Blacks 2021:

Rugby: Reinforcements set to return for the All Blacks

Great to see Ardie back, that's the left wing spot sorted.

[booboo]

@voodoo said in All Blacks 2021:

@tim said in All Blacks 2021:

Rugby: Reinforcements set to return for the All Blacks

Great to see Ardie back, that's the left wing spot sorted.

2nd 5/8?

[Bovidae]

That's real dedication as Pokeno is a small detour now. I hope the ABs went to the right shop, not the imposters.

[nostrildamus]

@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:

That's real dedication as Pokeno is a small detour now. I hope the ABs went to the right shop, not the imposters.

You really should work in tourism, I can just imagine the sign on the road:
Pokeno: the small detour

[nostrildamus]

I hope they play Ardie at 7, I shouldn't need to write that.

[Bovidae]

@nostrildamus As kids we used to stop for an ice cream at Pokeno regularly. Much more fun when you had to cross SH1 to get from the car to the shop. Now it's just a quiet main street.

[cgrant]

@nostrildamus
With Papali'i not fit, Savea is the best option at openside.

[pakman]

@african-monkey said in All Blacks 2021:

@sparky I'm shocked that Bower was ever considered a test option in the first place. Nothing against the guy, but he's nowhere near AB standard.

Project.

Not concerned about LH, as selectors have plenty of options, many of whom are good scrummagers.

Still short of that at TH, where Nepo is the only A grade, but no faster than a tractor.