All Blacks 2022

[Winger]

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

@Winger said in All Blacks 2022:

Highlander 2
Canes 3
Chiefs 9
Crusaders 10
Blues 11

Too many Canes 😉

Its an issue the Canes have now.

[Chris B.]

@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2022:

Is this the most average looking All Blacks team for a while? I feel like there are so many ??, not a good thing 1 year out from a World Cup.

Hang on. This is only a couple of selections away from what we all expected or would have selected. Jumping on the negative pretty quickly aren't you?

Fozzie's been bolder than me at halfback!!!

[ACT Crusader]

@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2022:

@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2022:

Is this the most average looking All Blacks team for a while? I feel like there are so many ??, not a good thing 1 year out from a World Cup.

Hang on. This is only a couple of selections away from what we all expected or would have selected. Jumping on the negative pretty quickly aren't you?

Fozzie's been bolder than me at halfback!!!

I like what he’s done at halfback. Christie has some work ons but I think there is more upside than Weber. They obviously like Fakatava’s speed to the ruck - biggest thing for him IMO is that he doesn’t have to make the big play or throw the no look pass all the time. Just play.

[taniwharugby]

looking at those props (aside form Ofa) we are gonna need to start ST for his ball running, one of SW & BR will need to play 80, while workign extra hard....

[number9]

So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.

[Mattasaurus]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in All Blacks 2022:

No DeGroot is he injured?

I'm pretty surprised too...
Maybe work rate is the question but I think he'll appear before the end of the season.

[Stargazer]

[Tim]

Could put together a decent NZ A 23.

1 Hodgman
2 Eklund
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Goodhue
6 Robinson
7 Harmon
8 Jacobson

9 Weber
10 McKenzie
11 Telea
12 TUJ
13 Sullivan
14 Lam
15 Sullivan

16 Aumua
17 Norris
18 Lomax
19 Strange
20 Mikaele-Tu'u
21 Perenara
22 Gatland
23 Ennor

[Kirwan]

Getting closer to this backline;

AS, BB, CC, RTS, RI, SR, WJ

Good luck defending that.

[number9]

@Mattasaurus his work rate is a heck of a lot higher than Karl T. Work rate has nothing to do with it. Foster is going to play a boring forwards game like last year. Props not getting involved at the breakdown and holding off. Bullshit gameplan. We will be get dominated once our locks get tired.

[ACT Crusader]

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

[Bovidae]

@Stargazer Lomax forgotten about.

[Tim]

@Bovidae That's how forgettable his year was!

[Kirwan]

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.

[Unite]

So Schmidt has had no input into selections right? He doesn’t start until after the Ireland series?

[Tim]

@Unite Think so, as Fox is still there. Maybe will start his analyst role next Monday?

[antipodean]

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

There's not much to applaud there. Form was obvious in the selection of the halfbacks. And RTS has a higher upside than Ennor does, who hasn't made a case to be an outside back deserving of selection.

[taniwharugby]

@Unite if they havent spoken to him and involved him in this process then they are morons.

He will have alot of IP on players and would know which types of players we will be best playing against certain players.

[Chris B.]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:

Good possibility that this will be the starting tight five:

1 Tu’inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Whitelock
5 Retallick

Not great.

Big Karl's selection has blindsided me - so who knows. But, I was thinking:

Bower, Taylor, Laulala, Barrett and Retallick. Well, I'm hoping they pick Barrett to play 80 and use Retallick and Whitelock in tandem.

I'd quite like to see Ofa instead of Nepo - but, only if his scrumming vs de Groot was an aberration.

No need for the red card jokes.

[Tim]

I guess we will target Ireland for scrum penalties?