All Blacks 2024
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
1 . Grace falls down my rankings. Didn't offer much.
What game were you watching?
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
1 . Grace falls down my rankings. Didn't offer much.
What game were you watching?
Yep Grace had a big shift he played well.
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Grace as well as scoring a great try,Pinched a couple of Canes line outs,Pulled of some big hits a lot of the defence was lead by Grace.He ran at the line hard bent it a few times.Best game he has put out in sometime.
I am not saying he played his way in to AB contention on one game but if you were really watching you would seen a lot more than a try. -
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@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Best game he has put out in sometime.
Agree he had a good game last night. He's been well off the pace in the first three weeks though. Gardiner has been worse so not many commented on Grace
Yep that's a Fair call.
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have a read of this tripe
did i blink and miss where RM somehow turned in to this all-conquering test match 10 we desperately can't live without?
Even the rest of the list of names he references sounded like last year's news.
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@mariner4life so it appears to me that FAS isn't a barrier to being a "sports journalist".
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@mariner4life I was wondering what I missed too. He was a bloody good 10 on his day, but I missed the bit where he was going to drag us to wins we couldn't otherwise win.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Grace falls down my rankings. Didn't offer much.
Made Flanders look like a chump.
The only thing Grace has done for about a year and a half.
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@ARHS said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Is the writer a rugby fan or just taking the mickey? Very wishy washy article and no real thought of the consequences of what he was writing.
Hamish Bidwell is probably the worst rugby writer in NZ and there’s plenty of competition
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@Duluth He doesn't deserve the time of day. How do clowns like him get jobs in the media?
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Duluth He doesn't deserve the time of day. How do clowns like him get jobs in the media?
Probably cos he looks good compared to a typical journo who writes for stuff.co.nz
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@mariner4life Yeah don't get me wrong, he was the best option we had in the last cycle, but he's a step down from our great 10s we've had.
We'll be fine without him.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Duluth He doesn't deserve the time of day. How do clowns like him get jobs in the media?
Probably cos he looks good compared to a typical journo who writes for stuff.co.nz
He used to write for stuff.....
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@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ARHS said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Is the writer a rugby fan or just taking the mickey? Very wishy washy article and no real thought of the consequences of what he was writing.
Hamish Bidwell is probably the worst rugby writer in NZ and there’s plenty of competition
Ding ding ding. Bidwell should not be taken seriously. Ever. He's like Rattue-lite
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
. Still wating for Lakai to impress. Goes ok at this level admittedly... but otherwise unimpressive.
Interesting observation, Lakai isn't really renowned as a 7 and has done an adequate job of stepping into that role for the Canes. He was very impressive playing number 8 in the first two rounds which is his proper position and the position that he'll play most of his rugby in the future.
For a 21 year old to be the top ball carrier and the third best tackler in the competition to me is pretty impressive, especially considering he's still only finding his feet at this level. He's dominated both Under 20 rugby (age grade player of the year in 2022) and NPC rugby thus far in his career, but it will take him a couple years (like it does for most players) to begin to make a mark at Super.
It's too early to put Lakai in the frame for the All Blacks but he'll be there or there abouts by the next World Cup, especially if he forms a combination with Ardie (7) and Roigard (9) at the Canes from next year.
You only have to look at someone like Segner, he's only now starting to dominate at this level after taking a few years to find his feet. Lakai has made a good start and is far from the finished product. He's only going to get better especially considering who he's learning from at the Canes.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
He was very impressive playing number 8 in the first two rounds
Nah, he was about as impressive as when he's been playing 7. Hence half of us probably didn't even realise he'd changed numbers...
