All Blacks 2022
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2022:
@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2022:
He has the distribution skills, the boot, and he is big and strong. The only thing I notice is he is less visible in the game in terms of doing significant things, due to lack of space? I have no doubt he has great potential to be a sort of second 10 type of 12 who is also able to take on the line
My trouble with JB at 12 right at this moment is that what we desperately need there is someone with linking vision. While his style can be very effective I don't see him setting RI/Jordan/Clarke etc into space, more a line runner/bender and re-set behind the gain line type.
In short he plays 12 like a fullback.I saw him distribute for the Blacks in the lions series. Small sample size though. I think he plays that way for the Canes because that's the way they play. He's played in midfield at age group level so he has some background. I'd like to see how he goes in a test
I'm not saying he's a bad midfielder. I actually think he's quite good. But if you look at his style and how it may assist in getting our strikepower free I just don't see him as a link man like Goodhue has shown to be and QT is fast developing as. I just don't see the need to move the 15 that everyone was raving about as our best player just last year to a different spot.
If RI is at 13 we have 4 very good options in Goodhue, RTS, QT and Havili (in no order). At fullback we have 1 other very good option (2 if you move BB back there) -
@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2022:
@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2022:
He has the distribution skills, the boot, and he is big and strong. The only thing I notice is he is less visible in the game in terms of doing significant things, due to lack of space? I have no doubt he has great potential to be a sort of second 10 type of 12 who is also able to take on the line
My trouble with JB at 12 right at this moment is that what we desperately need there is someone with linking vision. While his style can be very effective I don't see him setting RI/Jordan/Clarke etc into space, more a line runner/bender and re-set behind the gain line type.
In short he plays 12 like a fullback.I saw him distribute for the Blacks in the lions series. Small sample size though. I think he plays that way for the Canes because that's the way they play. He's played in midfield at age group level so he has some background. I'd like to see how he goes in a test
I'm not saying he's a bad midfielder. I actually think he's quite good. But if you look at his style and how it may assist in getting our strikepower free I just don't see him as a link man like Goodhue has shown to be and QT is fast developing as. I just don't see the need to move the 15 that everyone was raving about as our best player just last year to a different spot.
If RI is at 13 we have 4 very good options in Goodhue, RTS, QT and Havili (in no order). At fullback we have 1 other very good option (2 if you move BB back there)He needs to play. But it is a risk to move a guy who's recently nailed down 15 to another position. Maybe a one off trial, it's getting close to the next RWC so time is running out. Having said that, in my mind no one has nailed down spots starting in midfield except perhaps ALB
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@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
.If RI is at 13 we have 4 very good options in Goodhue, RTS, QT and Havili (in no order). At fullback we have 1 other very good option (2 if you move BB back there)
3 good options. It's Havili's natural position. He hasn't played there since 2020 NPC (after his bowel surgery), but before his surgery he was better than Jordie (at SR level) and he's played there for years.
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@Machpants 🙌 This is a great day for New Zealand
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@Machpants said in All Blacks 2022:
Good news
I'm the careful type. I want to see this confirmed officially first, before including him in any squad predictions.
I hope WR / NZR or whoever won't keep us in suspense until the squad naming next month.
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@FakatavaFuture said in All Blacks 2022:
@Machpants 🙌 This is a great day for New Zealand
So who is the third 9 in your squad?
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@Stargazer 4 halfbacks in a squad of 36?
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@KiwiMurph Or it will be 36 + 1 (where Fakatava is the "1"). He may also be a non-playing apprentice for the July Series.
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@Stargazer another option is have Perenara in the Maori squad and then call him up if needed
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@Duluth said in All Blacks 2022:
Do they look at Sowakula, Tu’u or (yuck) Frizell to backup Ioane?
I would hope for the former if only to build for the future. Frizell's advantage of experience has gotta be out-weighed by the potential of PGS & Tu'u
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@Victor-Meldrew hell, id say MMT has had more impact in the last few games than Frizell this season
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@Victor-Meldrew Mikaele-Tu'u, if it's to build for the future. MMT is 24; PGS is 27 (and his form has dropped).
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2022:
Rieko is now a world class centre and Jordie is finally getting game time at 12.
Well, I hope you are right and he's a shoe-in for the 13 jersey now ALB is out.
But I think we should reserve judgement until he has started a few more tests against top-level teams.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Victor-Meldrew Mikaele-Tu'u, if it's to build for the future. MMT is 24; PGS is 27 (and his form has dropped).
PGS is 27, he probably looked 27 when he was 17 then.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Victor-Meldrew Mikaele-Tu'u, if it's to build for the future. MMT is 24; PGS is 27 (and his form has dropped).
I think/hope we'll see MMT in the squad if not in the 23 so the coaches can have a good look at him. He might be one of those players who transitions to Test level easier than most.
