All Blacks 2022
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@TheMojoman said in All Blacks 2022:
We're not short of solid options - Whitelock, Barrett, Retallick, Ardie and even Smith.
- Whitelock - best option right now, provided his age doesn't make him fall off a cliff.
- Barrett - hard to know how the pressure of being captain will affect his game. I think his place is slightly safer than Whitelock.
- Retallick - major question if he can get back to being a safe pick in the team. Seems a bit of a joker, and what experience does he have as Captain?
- Ardie - decision making when he was captain last year was questionable. Did not work the ref' properly. Still the issue of his selection upsetting the loose forward balance, but I would concede he is pretty safe now.
- Smith - position is safe but is his personality right for it? No more toilet incidents and he might have a shot.
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2022:
@TheMojoman said in All Blacks 2022:
5. Smith - position is safe but is his personality right for it? No more toilet incidents and he might have a shot.no more?....wasn't it one incident 6 years ago?
since then he's been a in the AB's senior leadership group and captain of his super team, also meets my personal criteria of one of the first names on the team sheet so has to have a decent claim doesn't he?
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2022:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2022:
@TheMojoman said in All Blacks 2022:
5. Smith - position is safe but is his personality right for it? No more toilet incidents and he might have a shot.no more?....wasn't it one incident 6 years ago?
since then he's been a in the AB's senior leadership group and captain of his super team, also meets my personal criteria of one of the first names on the team sheet so has to have a decent claim doesn't he?
haha - got a few with that bait I see
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2022:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2022:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2022:
@TheMojoman said in All Blacks 2022:
5. Smith - position is safe but is his personality right for it? No more toilet incidents and he might have a shot.no more?....wasn't it one incident 6 years ago?
since then he's been a in the AB's senior leadership group and captain of his super team, also meets my personal criteria of one of the first names on the team sheet so has to have a decent claim doesn't he?
haha - got a few with that bait I see
Yeah, bait.
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@mariner4life dont judge, the plan might just involve letting everyone think we dont know how to handle it for 5 years!
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2022:
@mariner4life dont judge, the plan might just involve letting everyone think we dont know how to handle it for 5 years!
oooh that powder must be
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2022:
@Machpants said in All Blacks 2022:
2017 wants it's headlines back
It's the AB version of the Warriors 'we are the fittest we have ever been'.
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@Crazy-Horse or the Highlanders "we've found some exciting tallent....that no one else wanted"
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@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2022:
It's the AB version of the Warriors 'we are the fittest we have ever been'.
that made me genuinely snort. Well done sir.
There was even a time that I believed that shit when teams spouted it in preseason.
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Heading off on a tangent.
... what did Bryn Hall do to not be considered?
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So Blackadder looks to be ruled out of the squad now. Will be interesting to see where they go. Either Jacobsen becomes the everyman loosie or in a show of innovation Cane does.
Akira to start with Cane moving to 6 later and DP coming on?For all the talk about BBBR no longer being 'BB' are we just assuming that Whitelock can lift further? Nothing about him screamed 'pick me' last night.
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@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
So Blackadder looks to be ruled out of the squad now. Will be interesting to see where they go. Either Jacobsen becomes the everyman loosie or in a show of innovation Cane does.
Akira to start with Cane moving to 6 later and DP coming on?For all the talk about BBBR no longer being 'BB' are we just assuming that Whitelock can lift further? Nothing about him screamed 'pick me' last night.
Whitelock got a few key lineout steals, made tackles and hit rucks, pretty much what you want your lock to be doing. Agree he is not the presence in the loose he once was but if he is doing the core role well and leading by example then that is good for me given the current locking stocks. Savea / Cane / Akira with Sotutu and SB on the bench for me.
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@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
So Blackadder looks to be ruled out of the squad now. Will be interesting to see where they go. Either Jacobsen becomes the everyman loosie or in a show of innovation Cane does.
Akira to start with Cane moving to 6 later and DP coming on?For all the talk about BBBR no longer being 'BB' are we just assuming that Whitelock can lift further? Nothing about him screamed 'pick me' last night.
Seems we aren't seeing that for 6 weeks.
Sidelined with undisclosed medical issue.
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2022:
@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:
So Blackadder looks to be ruled out of the squad now. Will be interesting to see where they go. Either Jacobsen becomes the everyman loosie or in a show of innovation Cane does.
Akira to start with Cane moving to 6 later and DP coming on?For all the talk about BBBR no longer being 'BB' are we just assuming that Whitelock can lift further? Nothing about him screamed 'pick me' last night.
Seems we aren't seeing that for 6 weeks.
Sidelined with undisclosed medical issue.
Oh, I hadn't caught up with that news. If Cane's knee takes a bad turn we could be seeing Ardie back at 7 and Sotutu at 8
