All Blacks 2021
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Ardie shows you don't have to have an agent to get yourself the sort of deal you want
'He got a pay cut': Why Ardie Savea fought for a four-year deal with NZR
Ardie Savea has referenced what happened to two former All Blacks as key motivators behind his new four-year deal with New Zealand Rugby.
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@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:
@tim said in All Blacks 2021:
He's already 33 ...
They are signing old All Blacks on long contracts ...
Moody has done well to get an extra year as most contracts seem to be linked to the RWC cycles now.
That is player choice, not union. Getting a year after rwc is good for union as means at least one more experienced player stats around, rather than mass Exodus after cup
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Given the depth in our props I'm not sure why Moody got a contract beyond 2023?
Should have used the $$ to develop Bower, Big Mike, De Groot, Hodgman who are all in their late 20's.
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This is a hard one, as we want to keep him, but is tricky because it sort of reminds of the situation when we re-signed Franks, who was pretty clearly not going to be good enough for 2019 when we could have tried to keep Charlie.
Their ages were the same I think, so it's not quite the same (edit, and Moody might be able to stay in WC shape), but I hope this doesn't lead to us losing someone like Hodgman, who should currently be there over Bower anyway, but could bolt now that he sees the writing on the wall with Moody's long contract.
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@crucial Nah, he is fine in the Crusaders. I still maintain it is more about the AB system than the players.
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@old-samurai-jack said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial Nah, he is fine in the Crusaders. I still maintain it is more about the AB system than the players.
The systems don’t stop him tackling hard or putting some leg drive into his carries though.
I will give him some benefit of doubt from a disrupted season but he appears on the slide -
@old-samurai-jack said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial Nah, he is fine in the Crusaders. I still maintain it is more about the AB system than the players.
He might be fine at lower levels but no longer up to test standard. Happens to the best.
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@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:
I'll cut Moody some slack as he had that foot injury which meant a long layoff. The same applies to Ofa. No excuses for either in 2022. They need to perform like senior AB props.
That really applies to the entire team when we play the boks and in the NH tour next year. I would imagine Ireland will be fucked when they come here on torr, their teams will be played to death in the not Heineken cup etc. But still we'll have to hit the ground running to avoid another awful addition to Foster's CV of failures
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Knowler gets his crystal ball out for a potential AB team at the 2023 RWC.
1 Joe Moody, 2 Samisoni Taukei'aho, 3 Tyrel Lomax, 4 Brodie Retallick, 5 Scott Barrett, 6 Luke Jacobson, 7 Sam Cane (captain), 8 Ardie Savea, 9 Aaron Smith, 10 Beauden Barrett, 11 Leicester Fainga’anuku, 12 Jack Goodhue, 13 Rieko Ioane, 14 Will Jordan, 15 Jordie Barrett.
Not the team I would be selecting but he'll generate some clicks.
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Crazy that I could, i fact we ask could, pretty much name the line up for 2013. A few blips and injuries aside they then went on and smashed the RWC. No idea will be in 2023, with Foster's fading players and faffing with positions, it's a lottery. The all blacks are so like Australia, fiddling around with positions and favourites when it's really a total tactical rethink required
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@crucial The whole AB forward pack is on the slide then. Somehow since the start of 2020 (arguably much earlier), all the AB tight forwards individually started to decline as players.
Ofa, Whitelock, Taylor, Lualala, Brodie, Moody, Coles....
Poor ole Foster must be a very unlucky coach to have all these players sliding at the same time .....The weird thing is that they are fine in their Super teams but sliding at the international level.........
Poor old Foster had the same problem at the Chiefs. Luckily for Rennie, the players stopped their sliding. -
@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:
Knowler gets his crystal ball out for a potential AB team at the 2023 RWC.
1 Joe Moody, 2 Samisoni Taukei'aho, 3 Tyrel Lomax, 4 Brodie Retallick, 5 Scott Barrett, 6 Luke Jacobson, 7 Sam Cane (captain), 8 Ardie Savea, 9 Aaron Smith, 10 Beauden Barrett, 11 Leicester Fainga’anuku, 12 Jack Goodhue, 13 Rieko Ioane, 14 Will Jordan, 15 Jordie Barrett.
Not the team I would be selecting but he'll generate some clicks.
I'm trying to work out which drawven (Hobbit-era) beard Moody is going for and I'm putting my money on the oldest one. Balin.
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On this day, 11 December 2019:
'Now it's time for you to see me in a new light' - that line aged brilliantly.
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@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2021:
On this day, 11 December 2019:
'Now it's time for you to see me in a new light' - that aged brilliantly.
I see him in a new, even worse, light
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Also, I remember a video segment from RNZ where he mentions his desire to quote 'show that he is 'innovative'..
And to be fair to him.. being the first AB coach to lose to Argentina, was a ground-breaking achievement for Foz.
'I'm incredibly proud': Ian Foster reacts to being named All Blacks coach
