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    @nostrildamus nah just what I heard on radio this morning.
    I love Blackadder as a player. Not because he’s a crusader. Because he’s a bloody good player. But I also agree that he’s always injured. He won’t see out the whole test season. He’s that annoying unco guy at training that always hurts his teammates too.

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    @antipodean can the penalty stats be broken down to what they were for?

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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @nostrildamus nah just what I heard on radio this morning.
    I love Blackadder as a player. Not because he’s a crusader. Because he’s a bloody good player. But I also agree that he’s always injured. He won’t see out the whole test season. He’s that annoying unco guy at training that always hurts his teammates too.

    I think I may actually agree with you. It's just hard on those loosies that play all season with enthusiasm (cos I also like Harmon).

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    @nostrildamus I think Razor would probably agree that he got that one wrong. They chose to take Zach Gallagher and knew they had Jamie Hannah amd Taylor Cahill coming thru.
    So far Darry is the best out of them all.

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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @nostrildamus I think Razor would probably agree that he got that one wrong. They chose to take Zach Gallagher and knew they had Jamie Hannah amd Taylor Cahill coming thru.
    So far Darry is the best out of them all.

    And now Gallagher is joining the Canes so is he going to not select him aswell if/when he puts his hand up?

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    Really good interview with Scott Hansen on Aotearoa rugby pod. Talks a lot about Hoskins in it

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    @Bones I think you should watch him more closely. Watch how much time he spends on the ground.

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    @Canes4life I didn’t know that. He’s an amazing athlete but just can’t stay on the field. Bloody good kid. He'll be an asset if he can get his body right.

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    Need a translation of log here - he spends too much time on the ground, ergo, lazy? No repeated efforts?

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    @DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    Really good interview with Scott Hansen on Aotearoa rugby pod. Talks a lot about Hoskins in it

    What does he say?

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    The pattern here is that it is better to be impactful off the bench then have a run of good starting games.

    I think / hope Sititi will be very good, but his body of work is much more Frizell.

    It’s worth remembering that Kaino was tried, failed (too loose) then came back a few years later. It doesn’t seem that Akira or Sotutu will get the chance.

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    @gt12 left on ground

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    @gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    It doesn’t seem that Akira or Sotutu will get the chance.

    TBF, Akira has had the chances. Whether he would have pushed on this year given another chance, we'll never know.

    Sotutu a bit different and I think they've missed a trick here.

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    @Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @antipodean can the penalty stats be broken down to what they were for?

    I'm sure at SR/AB level they have that breakdown, but I just go off the publicly available ones.

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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @Bones I think you should watch him more closely. Watch how much time he spends on the ground.

    I've watched him plenty close enough. Spends less time on the ground than Finau for sure. And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.

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    It is notable how many "repeat" involvements Sititi has, but that's probably a bit easier when you're off the bench and/or doing less tight work.

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    Now that I think about it, ironically Sititi really reminds me of a young Sotutu, just without the wide passing or grubber game.

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    @Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @Bones I think you should watch him more closely. Watch how much time he spends on the ground.

    I've watched him plenty close enough. Spends less time on the ground than Finau for sure. And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.

    Funny to hear people say stuff (no one in particular on here) that Hoskins is a flat track bully that benefited from playing behind a great Blues pack this season. Does the poor bastard get no credit for being a big part of that? Besides, I could argue the same thing for a number of Canty and Auckland forwards over the years, who rode on the back of a superior pack, all the way into black

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    @canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    @nzzp said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

    4,000 posts, nearly 300k views.

    Razor's great for internet providers

    Still has a long way to go to overtake the guns n strippers, and the Middle East threads

    Give it time. I haven’t even got started on the fact that Razor selected:

    Proctor over McLeod
    Tuipulotu over Strange
    Perofeta over Cameron
    Perenara over Roe
    Narawa over Sam Gilbert

    Serious questions to be answered on what looks like a pattern of selection that I don’t even want to label.

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    @ACT-Crusader Sititi over Grace? Lomax over Dyer?

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