All Blacks 2024

[Old Samurai Jack]

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

Good to see you Cantabs can still circle the wagons with vigour this season.

Surely @sparky's post was mostly tongue and cheek.

Don't call me a Cantab!

[BerniesCorner]

Still not happy about the Silverlake deal

[ARHS]

@akan004 The workrate from Vaii in Super rugby has been huge. I am astounded at all the criticism of him

[sparky]

@Nepia Damn, maybe it was too obvious this time? 😉

[Bones]

@dogmeat said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

tongue and cheek

....in cheek. Tongue in cheek.

It hurt reading it at first but then I remembered he's Australian.

[Winger]

@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

There is a difference between a player with high work rates than a work horse
Finau is a high work rate player.
Players who don’t drift in games are high work rate players.They certainly have an impact due to being in the game more than a player who drifts in and out.
Sotutu,Lakai have high work rates,Jacobsen ,Lilo-Willie ,DP are all high work rate players.

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Another aspect is consistency between games. McCaw was great at best or still VG on a bad day. Likewise, Carter.

Others (like me when I played rugby) are all over the place. Canes have all over the place between weeks players. IWL being one. Looking AB quality some weeks and shit (vs Blues) other weeks. Some games he's fired up. Other weeks he looks disinterested.

My view is Shields is like this as well. And always has been. Iose might be as well. And Kirifi to an extent. Whereas Lakai isn't so far. Hes better some weeks than other but the difference is not great

[ACT Crusader]

@pakman said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Duluth I'll leave @ACT-Crusader to do the honours.

My first squad naming will even surprise Razor….

[African Monkey]

@ACT-Crusader I look forward to it just as much as the actual squad naming.

[ACT Crusader]

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@ACT-Crusader I look forward to it just as much as the actual squad naming.

I’m hoping to name it with plenty of the time before the England series, but the eligibility and passport checks for Johnny McNichol are taking time…

[sparky]

Sam Darry doing enough for a call up to the ABs squad IMHO.

[booboo]

@dogmeat said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

tongue and cheek

....in cheek. Tongue in cheek.

I thought it was deliberate...

[Victor Meldrew]

@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

God damn one of the worst posts I've ever read.

I thought it was bloody funny.

[sparky]

Serious post, honest.

How about this as a starting 23 for the game against England?

1 De Groot
2 Taylor
3 Lomax
4 S. Barrett
5. P. Tuipolutu
6. Finau
7. Papalii
8. A.Savea
9. TJP
10 D Mac
11 C. Clarke
12 J. Barrett
13 B. Proctor
14 M. Telea
15 R. Love

16 Sami T
17 Numia
18 Newell
19 S. Darry
20 H. Sotutu
21 T.Funaki
22 B. Barrett
23 R. Ioane

Scott or Ardie to captain.

[Bones]

Nah

[sparky]

@Bones Go on.

[ARHS]

Sotutu to 8 and Ardie to 7, Dalton on bench. Reece for Clarke, Vaai for Darry and Christie for Funaki. I am OK with the rest.

[MN5]

Is Reiko Ioane injured ?

[Tim]

@MN5 Concussion protocols.

[Mr Fish]

No point starting Perenara. For all his strengths he's still a slow passer of the ball and that's not what you want at the start of a game. Same reason Christie shouldn't be starting.

One of Ratima or Funaki has to be wearing No 9. Otherwise poor Damian McKenzie is finally going to get given the No 10 jersey and have terrible delivery.

[sparky]

@Mr-Fish TJP was fast enough for Beauden Barrett for all those years.