All Blacks 2024.. locked
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So what are the early Tests? Fiji then England x 2 I think?
Hopefully England has a good 6N and send down a strong side. It would be good to correct any errors early. If England are weak and the Wallabies are weak we won’t know anything until the Boks
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
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Robinson was a strange one because I never thought he was as good as Jack or Ali Williams and when you think about his availability and him being selected pretty sporadic over the 4 years leading into the 07 RWC, it still baffles me that Henry selected him for the QF vs France.
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
Definitely gave a hard edge when fit which unfortunately wasn’t often. Very good in the lineout and doing the dirty work.
A fair few dickheads have played for the ABs so I won’t comment on your second point !
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024:
Robinson was a strange one because I never thought he was as good as Jack or Ali Williams and when you think about his availability and him being selected pretty sporadic over the 4 years leading into the 07 RWC, it still baffles me that Henry selected him for the QF vs France.
IMO it was because while skillful players, Williams and Jake were really a couple of lightweight white boys who didn't have any sort of physical edge to them. We needed someone to shift bodies.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
Definitely gave a hard edge when fit which unfortunately wasn’t often. Very good in the lineout and doing the dirty work.
A fair few dickheads have played for the ABs so I won’t comment on your second point !
You've emphasised exactly what I consider the overrating of him.
My second point has nothing to do with the overrating of him - I just felt like adding it.
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
Definitely gave a hard edge when fit which unfortunately wasn’t often. Very good in the lineout and doing the dirty work.
A fair few dickheads have played for the ABs so I won’t comment on your second point !
You've emphasised exactly what I consider the overrating of him.
My second point has nothing to do with the overrating of him - I just felt like adding it.
Yeah but you’re forgetting Charlie Ngatai and Ethan Blackadder ( who admittedly has a chance to change this )
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
Definitely gave a hard edge when fit which unfortunately wasn’t often. Very good in the lineout and doing the dirty work.
A fair few dickheads have played for the ABs so I won’t comment on your second point !
You've emphasised exactly what I consider the overrating of him.
My second point has nothing to do with the overrating of him - I just felt like adding it.
Yeah but you’re forgetting Charlie Ngatai and Ethan Blackadder ( who admittedly has a chance to change this )
Top 3 then? Although TBF Ngatai is more a joke on potential, and Blackadder is the South Island's messiah.
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@ACT-Crusader Rush was in very good form in 2003 and should've made the squad. 2004 he wasn't quite at the same level and his form got worse throughout the year.
Keith Robinson came back too. He was great fun to watch.
I've come to the conclusion he might be one of the most overrated players to ever play for the ABs. Always marketed by his coaches and supporters as a hard edged saviour for the AB forwards. But he was never close to our two just retired gods level, hell, he wasn't even close to Williams and Thorn.
And appears to be an awful human off the field.
Definitely gave a hard edge when fit which unfortunately wasn’t often. Very good in the lineout and doing the dirty work.
A fair few dickheads have played for the ABs so I won’t comment on your second point !
You've emphasised exactly what I consider the overrating of him.
My second point has nothing to do with the overrating of him - I just felt like adding it.
Yeah but you’re forgetting Charlie Ngatai and Ethan Blackadder ( who admittedly has a chance to change this )
Top 3 then? Although TBF Ngatai is more a joke on potential, and Blackadder is the South Island's messiah.
Hmmmmmmm. Not sure. I mean, lots of ABs who didn’t play much are rated pretty low but those three aren’t……so yeah you could be right. I do remember Robinson having presence though, didn’t he sort Dallaglio out in 2004 or did I imagine this ?
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024:
Finau has a higher ceiling than Frizell in my view.
If he played 45mins in RWC final I think he would've made at least two tackles
did frizell only make one tackle?!
Successfully, missed one. And they'd bag Akira for making less than 10.
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@nostrildamus Ethan Blackadder makes about 10 tackles a year and still seems to make lot of people's ABs squads.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024:
Jordie, Rieko, Proctor, ALB, McLeod.
So midfield sorted too, nice one.
Havili's chances of selection may be better next season.
He can give fullback a shot....
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@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024:
@Bones Do you not watch Crusaders games. The guy is an elite fullback.
I’ll put it here , I think the crusaders will be average next year. Never been a fan of Penny. Might be my hatred of all things BurnsideNah must have missed the crusaders tests this year. When were they?
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@Kiwiwomble ok sure - but other than run really fast, what would you say is his skillset?
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@canefan How long would you say 'soon' is?
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:
@nostrildamus Ethan Blackadder makes about 10 tackles a year and still seems to make lot of people's ABs squads.
But what a 10 they are! And with a hard shoulder too.
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@ACT-Crusader A bit like a modern day Campbell Johnstone then?
