All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour
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@steven-harris said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
@duluth would have still had him on the bench
Same. Asking Cane to play 80 was tough
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@damo said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
@gt12 said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
Do we need to start picking players from Europe?
If the best players are playing there, we might need to recognize it.
Definitely not. That would kill our game both domestically and for the All Blacks as well.
Besides our best players are by and large still in NZ.
I agree with that, but the competition isn’t preparing them for test rugby.
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What makes NZ great is selecting people on merit. Not class, school, university, who your dad is etc.
The foster selection is just not that.
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We also need to stop pretending that the current version Super Rugby is producing decent international level tight forwards. Or that Brodie is still “BBBR”, he hasn’t been at quite that level since 2016, and has barely been sighted in Super Rugby since about the 2017 season.
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37-25 to France and really they were easily the better side.
The ABs...apart from some shocking individual plays (worst 3 ABs would be an interesting poll) ... overall our combos have got WORSE as the season wore on... -
Jeez, 40-25. Same old problems.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
@damo said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
@gt12 said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:
Do we need to start picking players from Europe?
If the best players are playing there, we might need to recognize it.
Definitely not. That would kill our game both domestically and for the All Blacks as well.
Besides our best players are by and large still in NZ.
I agree with that, but the competition isn’t preparing them for test rugby.
One bad year when we lose 3 games and all of sudden the structures we have that have been so successful for so long are defective.?
I think we need to keep things in perspective. We cannot win every game every time.
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