All Blacks 2024

[Bones]

It's a money grab and a pretty unique event, hard to have a go at them for milking it.

[Chris B.]

Scott Barrett apparently out of the early RC rounds.

I hope he's back for SA - or it might be quite ugly.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350357547/all-blacks-captain-scott-barrett-has-surgery-set-miss-start-rugby-championship

[Frank]

@Chris-B
Our most important player.

[Chris B.]

@Frank Definitely one of them, anyway.

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2024:

Scott Barrett apparently out of the early RC rounds.

Lets hope Josh Lord got safely through Taranaki's win over Wellington yesterday.

[African Monkey]

@Chris-B Might be why he's being rested?

Say if it were SA first up, he might have played?

[1kiwi]

@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2024:

Scott Barrett apparently out of the early RC rounds.

I hope he's back for SA - or it might be quite ugly.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350357547/all-blacks-captain-scott-barrett-has-surgery-set-miss-start-rugby-championship

Ardie will captain, Sam Darry to start

[KiwiMurph]

Could be a blessing in disguise. Darry and Lord need test minutes

[taniwharugby]

@KiwiMurph yep, plenty of us here were critical of the lack of decent minutes Vaai and Lord (when fit) the last couple of years, instead relying on the durability of Whitelock, BBBR and SB, that was pretty durable TBF.

[BerniesCorner]

@Winger Twickenham is a shocker for atmosphere. Too far from the pitch.

[Mr Fish]

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024:

@KiwiMurph yep, plenty of us here were critical of the lack of decent minutes Vaai and Lord (when fit) the last couple of years, instead relying on the durability of Whitelock, BBBR and SB, that was pretty durable TBF.

That's true but I don't think anyone was suggesting to start the inexperienced guys without a proven entity alongside them, which is largely the situation NZ are in now.

[BerniesCorner]

Anybody have an opinion on trusted sites for obtaining tickets AB v France 2024
Thanks

[sparky]

@BerniesCorner https://www.stadefrance.com/en/tickets/rugby

[BerniesCorner]

@sparky There's no tickets on sale at the moment on that site.
Is it likely they will become available

[Bovidae]

No Christie.

[Bovidae]

[KiwiMurph]

Pleasing to see some changes

Narawa can't have impressed during trainings.

Thought they might take a 5th lock. I presume Lord will be in and out of the squad

Hopefully Love is back to 100% fitness

Havili the luckiest

[akan004]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2024:

No Christie.

Am surprised it took so long for the AB coaches to realise that he's shit.

[Frank]

+1 for No Christie
-1 for Havili

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024:

Narawa can't have impressed during trainings.

I think he's been unlucky. He should have replaced Reece at HT in SD to give him some meaningful minutes. And then he received two shit passes.