All Blacks vs Fiji

Bones

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

MN5

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

All those years after they were gone we had to settle for Jack, Williams and that other bloke…..McCaw or whatever his name was. Dark times.

Bones

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

All those years after they were gone we had to settle for Jack, Williams and that other bloke…..McCaw or whatever his name was. Dark times.

At least we had Blackadder and Newby to offset it.

ACT Crusader

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

MN5

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Bones

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

I have a big glass of go fuck yourself waiting for you here bro.

Bones

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

MN5

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Bones

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Sad to see the end of Jack Kronfeld.

Rancid Schnitzel

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Don’t forget Sean Broomhall.

booboo

To be fair James Blackie never got capped.

MN5

None of them were ever gonna usurp Roger McCaw for the top job though.

Bones

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Don’t forget Sean Broomhall.

The fuck are you talking about? No such person.

Crucial

Is John Bridge the new Steve Hamilton?

MN5

@crucial said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Is John Bridge the new Steve Hamilton?

I see more Cameron Ralph in the way he plays……

Rancid Schnitzel

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Don’t forget Sean Broomhall.

The fuck are you talking about? No such person.

You would know. You never forget a name.

Bones

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@mn5 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

@jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Cowley-Tuioti and Lachlan Boshier

This is akin to lamenting the loss of Paul Tito and James Blackie.

Josh’s brother? 😀

A lot of depth at open side back then particularly with guys like Sam Herring and Ben Harding.

Mikey Holah went ok

Craig Masoe and Chris Newby got capped too. Great times.

Don’t forget Sean Broomhall.

The fuck are you talking about? No such person.

You would know. You never forget a name.

Practice makes perfect

nzzp

Fern Gold.

Duluth

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Fiji:

Of our locks in general play, apart from Whitelock, and a rusty, weaker Retallick, there is little depth. I think they need to try, um, maybe Tom Robinson?

Robinson had one SR game at lock back in 2020. This year the Blues have given up using him to cover lock. I don't think he spent a second at lock this year.
The one time the Blues did use a lock/blindside it was actually Goodhue

He could do the job at lineout. I suspect the scrum would be significantly weakened.

Rancid Schnitzel

Just regarding the above about the Golden Era that is passed etc., I think most here acknowledge that we’re unlikely to have a 2015 standard team any time soon. What’s pissing people off is what appears to be the distinct lack of focus on something that has been an alarming weakness for a few years now, i.e. physicality or lack thereof. Neither the team last year nor the one on Saturday looked like they were geared towards or focussed on taking out the other team at the collisions. The opposite in fact. It’s almost like we’ve gone full circle back to the Mitchell era where it was all about quick ball and getting it wide and the forwards were more a conduit for the backs rather than a weapon in themselves and indeed the most important one if the game becomes an arm wrestle. We might not have McCaws or Carters anymore but we certainly have the players to smash teams up front. It’s incredibly frustrating because I reckon it’s been a matter of concern from as early as that Argie game in 2016. I remember them causing havoc around the rucks. Making metres at will. Thankfully teams didn’t have the skill or the lungs to sustain that kind of game back then but now they most certainly do and we will be looking at more Foster type records if nothing is done about it.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs Fiji