All Blacks XV 2022

[ACT Crusader]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

@ACT-Crusader Squad size of 28 was announced earlier.

Plenty of room for a bolter then!

[Kirwan]

@Duluth said in All Blacks XV:

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks XV:

Hahahaha - Kirwan's bolter is Jackson Pugh.

He has to be trolling us

Waves at Sir John.

[Tim]

https://i.imgur.com/t0LyHFY.jpg

[Tim]

Basically the Crusaders B team forwards. Hmm.

Heem? Very very old.

No Zarn Sullivan. Would like to see injured players list.

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim Looks good. Nice mix of experience and up and comers.

[Duluth]

Heem is a surprise

[Tim]

Gutted for Hodgman.

[Bovidae]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Basically the Crusaders B team forwards. Hmm.

So Robertson can't use them?

A bit under-whelmed with some of those selections.

[Tim]

@Bovidae Dominic Gallaher, and three Crusaders hookers in the two squads. No thanks.

[number9]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Gutted for Hodgman.

Has definitely fallen out of favour with Foster. There are other teams in this fucking country besides the Crusadera and Canterbury.

[SouthernMann]

33 year old Bryce Heem. WTF

[Tim]

@SouthernMann Seems crazy.

[Duluth]

@number9 said in All Blacks XV:

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Gutted for Hodgman.

Has definitely fallen out of favour with Foster.

There has to be a story behind this?

He played pretty well when he got selected for the AB's. If anything he's in better form now than when he got selected

[number9]

What the hell does Eklund have to do? Buy a Red and Black jersey?????

[Bovidae]

No Stevenson either. That may tell us something...

Or PGS.

[KiwiMurph]

@number9 said in All Blacks XV:

What the hell does Eklund have to do? Buy a Red and Black jersey?????

Not have an absolute mare in the Super Rugby Final would have helped his chances.

Good player but I can see why they don't want him for higher honours - to me he wouldn't have the size for test rugby.

[KiwiMurph]

I would imagine Jason Ryan would have had a heavy influence in the make up of the forwards - he would know those Cantab boys very well.

[Chris]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

@Bovidae Dominic Gallaher, and three Crusaders hookers in the two squads. No thanks.

To be fair Dom Gardner has been outstanding for Canterbury in the NPC.

[Bovidae]

So a top XV of:

Ross
Aumua
Ta'avao
Tuipulotu
Dickson
MMT
Harmon
Jacobson
Weber/TJP
Gatland
Lam
Nankivell
Sullivan/Aumua
Telea
DMac

[Tim]

Those are some very average midfield players in this squad.