All Blacks 2024
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@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It would be a disaster if he appointed Scott Barrett as captain. Apart from the fact it would make Robertson look like he's unable to look outside his Crusader mates - its already bad enough with Richie and Sam. Scott would almost be the final straw for me.
Please pick Scooter. Please pick Scooter. Just please.
I'm a big Ardie fan, but his captaincy hasn't been great. I'd pick Scott, and I wouldn't care that he goes on a sabbatical next year. That's my prediction
Hope Robertson makes his choice on a long-term basis and not just on sabbaticals. Wonder if he'll pick a permanent VC as well.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It would be a disaster if he appointed Scott Barrett as captain. Apart from the fact it would make Robertson look like he's unable to look outside his Crusader mates - its already bad enough with Richie and Sam. Scott would almost be the final straw for me.
Please pick Scooter. Please pick Scooter. Just please.
I'm a big Ardie fan, but his captaincy hasn't been great. I'd pick Scott, and I wouldn't care that he goes on a sabbatical next year. That's my prediction
Hope Robertson makes his choice on a long-term basis and not just on sabbaticals. Wonder if he'll pick a permanent VC as well.
Grace or Strange have many years ahead of them in black...
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It would be a disaster if he appointed Scott Barrett as captain. Apart from the fact it would make Robertson look like he's unable to look outside his Crusader mates - its already bad enough with Richie and Sam. Scott would almost be the final straw for me.
Please pick Scooter. Please pick Scooter. Just please.
I'm a big Ardie fan, but his captaincy hasn't been great. I'd pick Scott, and I wouldn't care that he goes on a sabbatical next year. That's my prediction
Hope Robertson makes his choice on a long-term basis and not just on sabbaticals. Wonder if he'll pick a permanent VC as well.
Grace or Strange have many years ahead of them in black...
Like that great captain who really made an impression on the game, Luke Whitelock
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England dealt blow as George Ford OUT of Tests against Japan and All Blacks
George Ford has been ruled out of the mid-year Tests against Japan and New Zealand due to a pre-existing Achilles injury.
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@Daffy-Jaffy So that leaves them Wish version of Mounga or the limited directness of Farrell?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Daffy-Jaffy So that leaves them Wish version of Mounga or the limited directness of Farrell?
No Farrell, he's out off to France
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
You would assume they are selecting 4 locks so Strange was always going to be a good chance as the fourth lock. Hopefully Lord is close to full fitness by July.
Hopefully he learns some of the laws of rugby in the interim. Olympic level stupid.
…..and to think people in other threads were whinging about Norm Maxwell, Todd Blackadder and Isaac Ross.
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders. -
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
You would assume they are selecting 4 locks so Strange was always going to be a good chance as the fourth lock. Hopefully Lord is close to full fitness by July.
Hopefully he learns some of the laws of rugby in the interim. Olympic level stupid.
…..and to think people in other threads were whinging about Norm Maxwell, Todd Blackadder and Isaac Ross.
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders.And Stormin' Norman - great recruiting
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
You would assume they are selecting 4 locks so Strange was always going to be a good chance as the fourth lock. Hopefully Lord is close to full fitness by July.
Hopefully he learns some of the laws of rugby in the interim. Olympic level stupid.
…..and to think people in other threads were whinging about Norm Maxwell, Todd Blackadder and Isaac Ross.
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders.I think on the Blues thread ? Go in there and white knight him would you ?
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders.I wasn't 'whinging' about Maxwell
The question came up is 2024 the thinnest the ABs have been at lock and I brought up Maxwell and Blackadder in 2000, others brought up Isaac Ross.
I'm not sure where the big issue is.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders.I wasn't 'whinging' about Maxwell
The question came up is 2024 the thinnest the ABs have been at lock and I brought up Maxwell and Blackadder in 2000, others brought up Isaac Ross.
I'm not sure where the big issue is.
Maxwell was the thinnest. Or maybe Maling.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
You would assume they are selecting 4 locks so Strange was always going to be a good chance as the fourth lock. Hopefully Lord is close to full fitness by July.
Hopefully he learns some of the laws of rugby in the interim. Olympic level stupid.
…..and to think people in other threads were whinging about Norm Maxwell, Todd Blackadder and Isaac Ross.
Who the fuck was whinging about Maxwell?
Nothing to whinge about there - well aside from the fact he’s a Northlander who played for the Crusaders.I think on the Blues thread ? Go in there and white knight him would you ?
I'll leave that to one of the Northlanders or cyclops on here.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
It would be a disaster if he appointed Scott Barrett as captain. Apart from the fact it would make Robertson look like he's unable to look outside his Crusader mates - its already bad enough with Richie and Sam. Scott would almost be the final straw for me.
Please pick Scooter. Please pick Scooter. Just please.
I'm a big Ardie fan, but his captaincy hasn't been great. I'd pick Scott, and I wouldn't care that he goes on a sabbatical next year. That's my prediction
Hope Robertson makes his choice on a long-term basis and not just on sabbaticals. Wonder if he'll pick a permanent VC as well.
Grace or Strange have many years ahead of them in black...
Grace I can live with
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How deep into the barrel must the All Blacks look for their next lock?
The famous black jersey will be missing two of its most renowned servants in 2024, with both Sam Whitelock and Brodie Retallick now aboard.
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@Duluth That's a reasonable assessment.
That must be an old weight for Darry - looks a good 10kgs heavier to me. Assuming so, that's the dimensions I'd be looking for in a lock.
In an interview last week, Scott Barrett said he'd have been 50-50 to play if there had been a game at the weekend, so that's promising for England.
