All Blacks 2024
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It’s interesting to hear him discuss the enjoyment of new country, team, rugby to help him freshen up mentally as playing in NZ year after year was getting stale for him.
If Ardie announced he was off - As current world player of the year/senior AB in his prime/best player in the team/potential captain and major leader of past regime…. would that make NZR seriously rethink or change its eligibility rules?
Hope not.
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It’s interesting to hear him discuss the enjoyment of new country, team, rugby to help him freshen up mentally as playing in NZ year after year was getting stale for him.
I.e. the whole point of the sabbatical that he is currently on whilst still being contracted to NZR.
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It’s interesting to hear him discuss the enjoyment of new country, team, rugby to help him freshen up mentally as playing in NZ year after year was getting stale for him.
I expect with the Jaguares and Bok teams leaving Super it would make super a bit boring, which is why NZR really need to be working with Japan to get them on board with a new team, obviously the Drua have been a breath of fresh air to the comp, MP a mixed bag and even with the Aus teams being more competitive, the comp still needs a shake up.
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@taniwharugby yeah, i think finding "something" to add a bit of spice to the comp is needed, ive seen some chat with highlanders fans (and have in several other years)...seasons done...try again next year
other leagues obviously have relegation which adds a reasons to keep fighting, the other side is obviously you get some new teams each year to change things up, the other option is things like draft picks...you can have some genuine hope for next year on the back of getting the best new players
without "something" it is a bit samey
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No more Adidas rugby balls now.
Gilbert announces new partnership to become the Official Rugby Ball of New Zealand Rugby Union, at all levels.
For the first time in 18 years, Gilbert returns to NZRU as the premier rugby ball in World Rugby, to both the All Blacks and Black Ferns teams. This completes - for the first time ever - a full set of the Top 20 Men’s teams and Top 10 Women’s teams in the world, all using the same market leading Gilbert match ball.
The Gilbert ball will be used in Sky Super Rugby Aupiki, Bunnings Warehouse NPC, Farah Palmer Cup presented by Bunnings Warehouse and the Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship from this season and will be used by the All Blacks in the 2024 Steinlager Ultra Low Carb Series, 2024 Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship and the 2024 Bledisloe Cup and the Black Ferns in the Pac 4 and WXV World Rugby tournaments.
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super rugby had been using Gilbert for a couple of years already hadn't it? adidas sponsorship definitely scaling down, use to be boots, balls, and obviously kits for super rugby and above...now just the Black Jersey
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
super rugby had been using Gilbert for a couple of years already hadn't it?
Yes. The ABs used Adidas balls for home tests but Gilbert in all other games, including the RWC.
adidas sponsorship definitely scaling down, use to be boots, balls, and obviously kits for super rugby and above...now just the Black Jersey
Now just all teams in black including boots etc.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
super rugby had been using Gilbert for a couple of years already hadn't it?
Yes. The ABs used Adidas balls for home tests but Gilbert in all other games, including the RWC.
adidas sponsorship definitely scaling down, use to be boots, balls, and obviously kits for super rugby and above...now just the Black Jersey
Now just all teams in black including boots etc.
is it even the boots anymore? i know players have the option of adidas gear but i thought several played in other boots because they has a preference
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The renewed apparel deal, part of a long-lasting collaboration between the two dating back to 1999, secures the supply of adidas playing kits, boots, and footwear to all NZR teams, including All Blacks, Black Ferns, All Blacks Sevens, Black Ferns Sevens, Māori All Blacks, All Blacks XV, New Zealand Under 20’s, and Heartland XV, with playing kit, apparel, boots, and footwear.
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@george33 didnt Cron finish before Fozzie took over?
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It’s interesting to hear him discuss the enjoyment of new country, team, rugby to help him freshen up mentally as playing in NZ year after year was getting stale for him.
If Ardie announced he was off - As current world player of the year/senior AB in his prime/best player in the team/potential captain and major leader of past regime…. would that make NZR seriously rethink or change its eligibility rules?
Ardie is 31 this year, so it's not like he's a spring chicken so he could feasibly be in that age of wanting to move on even accounting for everything you list there.
But changing for Ardie is as dumb as changing for Mo or any individual player.
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i do wish NZR would concentrate on making sure the NZ domestic comps, in whatever form they take, are just good enough to be bring the next guys through so it doesnt matter when older guys look overseas
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@george33 didnt Cron finish before Fozzie took over?
Mike finished for the ABs in 2019 great bloke is a good Canterbury man from the Christchurch club.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
He's enjoying Japan and finds it mentally refreshing
The whole point of a sabbatical is to refresh. That's why NZR doesn't mind players doing it. And why they would mind if it were two years in France.
Next Ardie will be telling us how he really likes taking holidays.
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@Chris thought so, was more what seemed to be being inferred in the post i responded to.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris thought so, was more what seemed to be being inferred in the post i responded to.
Trying to read it caused me a mental break, so maybe he was talking about how good the sabbaticals are for the mind?
Gilbert announces deal with New Zealand Rugby
