All Blacks 2024
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Gee, shocked that two crap Cantabs were added permanently to the squad.
Love is a good pick, but Lam would have been a better pick that a proven failure at Test level.
Baby steps to Canta-Blacks. @ACT-Crusader will be happy.
Hotham being picked over Christie, Funaki and even Fakatava is a joke.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Yes Ruben Love. Well bloody deserved. Bye bye Christie.
Love being one of the hardest working players in NZ must have impressed in camp.
How do you claim to know such a thing ?
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year. Hard work paying off for the young lad.
When the top sprint coach in Aus (who coaches a dozen of the top NRL players) says his mindset is different to any other athlete he’s coached, then it’s pretty obvious he’s got the determination and work ethic that isn’t matched by many.
Good on him but I’m sure all pro Rugby players work extremely hard or they wouldn’t be pro Rugby players in the first place.
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Don’t understand Cane’s selection
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2024:
We seem to have a lot of fullbacks now if they are thinking of Jordan at 15 as well. Hopefully they are looking at Jordan on the wing.
It's no good being able to play multiple positions if you are not good enough in any of them. Havili shouldn't be near this squad, Crusader bias strikes again.
The number are (I hope)
Crusaders 10
Blues 9
Chiefs 8
Canes 7
MP 1
Lnader 1Robertson had a chance to show he was above bias. He failed
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@MiketheSnow Cane and Havili very lucky.
Kinda surprised they dropped Christie, particularly as Ratima and Hotham have 3 caps, so sink or swim time for them.
Interesting how both this and the last coaching group name minimal locks, particularly as one of them has been carrying injuries this year.
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@Winger the idiot brigade out again. Give it a rest. It’s getting boring.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024:
@MiketheSnow Cane and Havili very lucky.
Kinda surprised they dropped Christie, particularly as Ratima and Hotham have 3 caps, so sink or swim time for them.
Interesting how both this and the last coaching group name minimal locks, particularly as one of them has been carrying injuries this year.
If the AB coaches want to play a Blues type game then Chrisie is fine. If not he's out. Just too slow getting the ball away
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024:
Hotham being picked over Christie, Funaki and even Fakatava is a joke.
Disagree. Hotham is deserving of his selection. He looked good in a poor Crusaders team - not the easiest to do at 9. He still needs some polishing but a good opportunity to get him some more test minutes before Roigard returns.
Havili on the other hand......
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@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024:
@Winger the idiot brigade out again. Give it a rest. It’s getting boring.
Where did the Crusaders finish up this year?
There's obvious bias. Even most (but obviosuly not all) Crusaders should be able to see this
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@Winger said in All Blacks 2024:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024:
@Winger the idiot brigade out again. Give it a rest. It’s getting boring.
Where did the Crusaders finish up this year?
There's obvious bias. Even most (but obviosuly not all) Crusaders should be able to see this
That could be asking the impossible
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024:
@Winger the idiot brigade out again. Give it a rest. It’s getting boring.
Where did the Crusaders finish up this year?
There's obvious bias. Even most (but obviosuly not all) Crusaders should be able to see this
That could be asking the impossible
Robertsons a fool really. All he had to do is not make any dubious Crusaders selections and everyone would have been on his side as the man.
So Ardie over Scott as captain
RR in preference to Bell
Plummer in preference to Havili
And not BlackadderThats it. He could have then brought them all in if and only if they proved themsleves in SRP 2025
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Yes Ruben Love. Well bloody deserved. Bye bye Christie.
Love being one of the hardest working players in NZ must have impressed in camp.
How do you claim to know such a thing ?
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year. Hard work paying off for the young lad.
When the top sprint coach in Aus (who coaches a dozen of the top NRL players) says his mindset is different to any other athlete he’s coached, then it’s pretty obvious he’s got the determination and work ethic that isn’t matched by many.
Good on him but I’m sure all pro Rugby players work extremely hard or they wouldn’t be pro Rugby players in the first place.
Yeah obviously but it’s the extras that set some players apart from others. Sometimes putting in the extra yards when everyone else stops is what gets you ahead as an athlete. Aaron Smith was renowned for being by far the hardest working player at the Highlanders and it showed on the field.
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@Winger said in All Blacks 2024:
RR in preference to Bell
You lost me with this one. Up until this year RR has been a bit of a joke, Cane's fans didn't like him and Blue's fans weren't dancing in the aisles when he moved to the Blues. He did a job with the support of a very good pack and an equally good game plan. The problem is, he is still the same player he was at the Canes. He is not an international player.
I get Bell didn't have the best year, and he probably wasn't even the best hooking Bell, but at least he is a nod to the future.
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@Winger so you’re not on his side. Are you not supporting the All Blacks now.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Well not many players invest their own $$ to go and do a training camp over in Aus while most other players are on holiday in their off-season. Love literally hasn’t stopped training since the end of Super rugby last year.
A bunch of other players were playing Test rugby after Super season finished...
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2024:
Don’t understand Cane’s selection
Yeah. So they'd rather give an outgoing player a swansong RC instead of bringing Hoskins in to see if they can work with him to get him up to speed for the future
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
Brilliant squad well done the selectors.
I’ll sleep better knowing Havilli is finally there to cover 10
Me too it’s a relief.
