All Blacks v England
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow Dmac isn't in the ABs. He'll join the Baabaas this week.
With Foster obviously not trusting Perofeta, if Mo gets injured I'd be far more confident with DMac going to 10 than BB
You pick your best 23
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You tune changer you!
Definitely
Coming in to the Summer internationals I tipped BB to return to his best
At 10
He didn't and he hasn't
But with JB going to 12 and Jordan injured then BB is the best 15 available
And the best 10 rhymes with bounga
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@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow Dmac isn't in the ABs. He'll join the Baabaas this week.
With Foster obviously not trusting Perofeta, if Mo gets injured I'd be far more confident with DMac going to 10 than BB
You pick your best 23
End of
You tune changer you!
Definitely
Coming in to the Summer internationals I tipped BB to return to his best
At 10
He didn't and he hasn't
But with JB going to 12 and Jordan injured then BB is the best 15 available
And the best 10 rhymes with bounga
Hence my team above
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow Dmac isn't in the ABs. He'll join the Baabaas this week.
With Foster obviously not trusting Perofeta, if Mo gets injured I'd be far more confident with DMac going to 10 than BB
You pick your best 23
End of
You tune changer you!
Definitely
Coming in to the Summer internationals I tipped BB to return to his best
At 10
He didn't and he hasn't
But with JB going to 12 and Jordan injured then BB is the best 15 available
And the best 10 rhymes with bounga
Hence my team above
If I screech enough, you will listen. Good to know.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow Dmac isn't in the ABs. He'll join the Baabaas this week.
With Foster obviously not trusting Perofeta, if Mo gets injured I'd be far more confident with DMac going to 10 than BB
You pick your best 23
End of
You tune changer you!
Definitely
Coming in to the Summer internationals I tipped BB to return to his best
At 10
He didn't and he hasn't
But with JB going to 12 and Jordan injured then BB is the best 15 available
is Zarn Sullivan injured?
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@pakman said in All Blacks Vs England:
Ofa/Sami/Lomax/BBBR/Big Sam/Paps/Scooter/RD/Nugget/Richie/Jordie/Ioane (R)/CC/Telea/BB
Bench is where it gets interesting...
Taylor, Bower, Newell, Vaa'i, Frizell, Perenara, DMac, ALB
I'd say Codie/Newell/Vaa'i/TJP/ALB are givens.
De Groot/Bower tricky because latter very good Sunday.
Frizell/Akira is perennial Fern chewing bone.
Part of me would like to see Reece on bench, but injury considerations come into play. -
Given how well Telea played maybe there is another decent wing out there?
We still lack a spare 13 behind Ioane if ALB no longer suits there.
From what I saw of the AB XV Big Leicester would at least add a bit of oomph. -
@pakman said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@pakman said in All Blacks Vs England:
Ofa/Sami/Lomax/BBBR/Big Sam/Paps/Scooter/RD/Nugget/Richie/Jordie/Ioane (R)/CC/Telea/BB
Bench is where it gets interesting...
Taylor, Bower, Newell, Vaa'i, Frizell, Perenara, DMac, ALB
I'd say Codie/Newell/Vaa'i/TJP/ALB are givens.
De Groot/Bower tricky because latter very good Sunday.
Frizell/Akira is perennial Fern chewing bone.
Part of me would like to see Reece on bench, but injury considerations come into play.Bower is easily the best carrier out of the props IMO, so probably puts him ahead of EdG for a bench role, probably a stronger scrummager too.
You've gone quiet on Nepo fella
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks Vs England:
Given how well Telea played maybe there is another decent wing out there?
We still lack a spare 13 behind Ioane if ALB no longer suits there.
From what I saw of the AB XV Big Leicester would at least add a bit of oomph.Yeah might have been nice if we got to see more of Faainganuku, instead of using him as the prototype for what will be knows as "doing a Perofeta".
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@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
Yeah might have been nice if we got to see more of Faainganuku, instead of using him as the prototype for what will be knows as "doing a Perofeta".
I'm sure he has workons, distribution or turning speed/agility, positioning, perhaps. But if they are not going to play Tana's fave Hurricanes nephew, I don't know who could do it (nb I thought Nankivell played well from what I saw yesterday but I guess he is more a 12 than a 13).
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@nostrildamus Oh I was thinking of the wing to replace Clarke, no idea why after reading your post again.
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@Bones well if we follow the question you pretended I posed
then yes I guess big Leicester is a power winger in a similar mode to Clarke. Not sure if he shores up that wing defensively though. -
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones well if we follow the question you pretended I posed
then yes I guess big Leicester is a power winger in a similar mode to Clarke. Not sure if he shores up that wing defensively though.How did Bridge go for the Baabaas?
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@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones well if we follow the question you pretended I posed
then yes I guess big Leicester is a power winger in a similar mode to Clarke. Not sure if he shores up that wing defensively though.How did Bridge go for the Baabaas?
Nothing flash
That would be a Bridge too far
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You get a pity vote.
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@Bones said in All Blacks Vs England:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks Vs England:
@Bones well if we follow the question you pretended I posed
then yes I guess big Leicester is a power winger in a similar mode to Clarke. Not sure if he shores up that wing defensively though.How did Bridge go for the Baabaas?
Didn't know they had time for cards before the game.
Oh the player not known as DuPont...
From what I saw, safe enough, slow enough. Made one run straight into tacklers.
Otherwise quiet. -
@pakman said in All Blacks Vs England:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
@pakman said in All Blacks Vs England:
Ofa/Sami/Lomax/BBBR/Big Sam/Paps/Scooter/RD/Nugget/Richie/Jordie/Ioane (R)/CC/Telea/BB
Bench is where it gets interesting...
Taylor, Bower, Newell, Vaa'i, Frizell, Perenara, DMac, ALB
I'd say Codie/Newell/Vaa'i/TJP/ALB are givens.
If they select S Barrett at 6 there will be two loose forwards on the bench. Likely Ioane and Frizell, but I wonder if Harmon gets a chance.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks Vs England:
That would be a Bridge too far
Can be disruptive when he gets going though, a spanner in the works.
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1.Ethan de Groot; 2.Codie Taylor; 3.Tyrel Lomax; 4.Brodie Retallick; 5.Sam Whitelock; 6.Shannon Frizell; 7.Dalton Papali'i; 8.Ardie Savea; 9.Aaaron Smith; 10.Richie Moúnga, 11.Rieko Ioane; 12.Jordie Barrett; 13.Anton Lienert-Brown; 14.Sevu Reece; 15.Beauden Barrett.
16.Big Sami; 17.Ofa Tu'ungafasi; 18. LFletcher Newell; 19.Scott Barrett; 20.Akira Ioane; 21.TJ Perenara; 22.David Havili; 23.Caleb Clarke.
