All Blacks XV 2024
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I'm not a big DMac basher but we do have a quality backup/reserve talent at 10 issue...
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Supposedly there needed to be an rticle written about how Razor and Ryan wouldn't work with Blues forwards.
But it foundered when they pointed to Tu'ungafasi, Tuipolotu, Darry and Papali'i
So 3 forwards and Dalton who has been unsighted for the past how many tests?
Dalton started the first tests of the season, so it's a bit hard to argue they wouldn't work with him.
The only forward who was probably a bit hard done by was Hoskins - and that was blown into a major conspiracy (there was no way he was making this A team according to some) - which has now pretty much been debunked.
Not having a crack at you in the slightest. But there's quite a few in Blues land who have been well over the top.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Bones said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Bones said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Chris-B how many crusaders? The ones that couldn't even make a final...
That's them , the ones that stank the joint out all season and still beat both the Chiefs and the Blues.
Oh right. Who did they lose to? Beat the finalists and still couldn't make the top 8.... the absence of Blackadder really hit hard.
To be honest it did. As did Codie Taylor's sabbatical.
When they came back, those two were instrumental in getting the better of the Blues scrum and loosies.
But, among the missed were:
Williams - tore his hamstring 20 minutes into the first game
Taylor - Sabbatical for most of the season
Jaeger - gone to Ireland
Gallagher - injured for the season
Whitelock - retired to Japan
SBarrett - injured for most of the season
Havili-Talitui - Moana Pacifica
Blackadder - injured for most of the season
Mo'unga - gone to Japan
Burke - injured for most of the season
Fainga'anuku - gone to France
Goodhue - gone offshore
Ennor - Injured all season
Nanai - gone somewhere
Jordan - injured all seasonAlways going to be a bit of a re-building year.
How goods a list like this when every other team goes through something like this every year but it isn’t talked about 😂 it was just the Crusaders turn mate. They’ll be fine. Dont take the bait.
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@SBW1 said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Crazy-Horse George Bower, a recent change for Ethan De Groot.
Source? I see nothing anywhere about this.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Yeah, I stated earlier in this thread that it's a disgrace that McAlister is so high up, couldn't be bothered writing it out again, nothing to do with silence. We all share the same thoughts on Fihaki including Crusaders fans, but we're warned so it's no surprise.
Repeat it, get told off for being repetitive. Don’t repeat it, get told off for not repeating.
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@pakman said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Seems Donk gave an interview. Anyone seen a link?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350444425/embrace-opportunity-all-blacks-xv-coachs-message-sotutu
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@pakman said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Seems Donk gave an interview. Anyone seen a link?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350444425/embrace-opportunity-all-blacks-xv-coachs-message-sotutu
Good message from Clayton. But does it apply to the full selectors? We’ve had Cantabs just yesterday claiming Ryan and/or Robertson will never work with him.
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@Duluth said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Yeah, I stated earlier in this thread that it's a disgrace that McAlister is so high up, couldn't be bothered writing it out again, nothing to do with silence. We all share the same thoughts on Fihaki including Crusaders fans, but we're warned so it's no surprise.
Repeat it, get told off for being repetitive. Don’t repeat it, get told off for not repeating.
Yeah can't win these days!
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Not having a crack at you in the slightest. But there's quite a few in Blues land who have been well over the top.
That's fair but on the flip side I think there is genuine discussion to be had around the loose forwards
The loose forwards selection on paper seemed unbalanced, has performed poor to middling and yet no changes at all in that group have occurred across 3 squads (with the exception of the departing Sam Cane coming in once up to speed).
Meanwhile the best performing loose forward trio in Super has one player who has been tried and now can't make a 23, and the other two can't make the AB squad (one of whom would not be departing offshore if the selectors had interest in him). Throw in that this coaching setup is chasing Frizell to be in the squad next year.....
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Loose forward mix has been shit, with the coaches unable to grip Ardie's drop in effectiveness. I am an Ardie fan, see back to my posts, he was the best AB for about 3 or so years. But not this year, and he needs to be replaced. Sotutu should have been in the suad to do that, and he wasn't. Instead we get Cane who should have been left right out, his last game was utter wank and even when he plays well he is not advancing our long term outlook
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@SBW1 said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@Crazy-Horse George Bower, a recent change for Ethan De Groot.
Are you saying de Groot is injured out of the tour?
Where and when was thus announced. Any replacement for Bower?
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Meanwhile the best performing loose forward trio in Super has one player who has been tried and now can't make a 23, and the other two can't make the AB squad (one of whom would not be departing offshore if the selectors had interest in him). Throw in that this coaching setup is chasing Frizell to be in the squad next year.....
Yeah - but, is that unusual?
Last year the Crusaders won Super rugby for the 7th consecutive season and they had no loose forwards in the initial RWC squad. Blackadder got a late call up and played a minnow game or two.
Paps has been fighting Cane - who's been 1st choice for the past 5 years. I find it a little bit odd they've stuck with Sam given he's leaving, but presumably he's giving them things they think Paps isn't. One thing it's certainly not evidence of is Crusaders' bias.
Razor said his closest call was between Sotutu and Sititi and much of the past week has been veiled insinuations that he'll be shown to be a lying fuck. The jury is in and it's found in favour of Razor.
On Akira, there's been a lot of hypothetical conversations posited about what was said between him and Razor. I have no idea and I occasionally suspect some posters of being Akira (or his Mum), so if they actually know something they should come out and say it.
But the selection patterns do not say that Ryan had no interest in him.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Meanwhile the best performing loose forward trio in Super has one player who has been tried and now can't make a 23, and the other two can't make the AB squad (one of whom would not be departing offshore if the selectors had interest in him). Throw in that this coaching setup is chasing Frizell to be in the squad next year.....
Yeah - but, is that unusual?
Last year the Crusaders won Super rugby for the 7th consecutive season and they had no loose forwards in the initial RWC squad. Blackadder got a late call up and played a minnow game or two.
Paps has been fighting Cane - who's been 1st choice for the past 5 years. I find it a little bit odd they've stuck with Sam given he's leaving, but presumably he's giving them things they think Paps isn't. One thing it's certainly not evidence of is Crusaders' bias.
Razor said his closest call was between Sotutu and Sititi and much of the past week has been veiled insinuations that he'll be shown to be a lying fuck. The jury is in and it's found in favour of Razor.
On Akira, there's been a lot of hypothetical conversations posited about what was said between him and Razor. I have no idea and I occasionally suspect some posters of being Akira (or his Mum), so if they actually know something they should come out and say it.
But the selection patterns do not say that Ryan had no interest in him.
We are going around in circles here so I don't want to clog up the thread but just a few comments in response.
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it's not exactly apples to apples to compare a RWC year with limited build-up and the first year of a new cycle. Heck in the RWC squad because of the weird selection decision there was only 5 loosies picked at all.
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the oddness of Papalii completely falling out of favour is exactly what I'm talking about
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as I said earlier in the thread I was pleased to see form players being picked. It will be interesting what gametime Sotutu gets for the AB XV and where (given Razor's fondness for position utility would they try him at 6 or is he the starting 8 etc) - that may point to how in the frame Sotutu is
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I don't see Ryan clamouring for Akira to return the way he has for Frizell.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Razor said his closest call was between Sotutu and Sititi and much of the past week has been veiled insinuations that he'll be shown to be a lying fuck. The jury is in and it's found in favour of Razor.
On Akira, there's been a lot of hypothetical conversations posited about what was said between him and Razor. I have no idea and I occasionally suspect some posters of being Akira (or his Mum), so if they actually know something they should come out and say it.
But the selection patterns do not say that Ryan had no interest in him.
I feel I'm being gaslit.
What evidence do we have fatty Ryan had any interest in the form blindside flanker of Super Rugby?
If Razor is selecting the AB XV, then he's lumped Sotutu with the likes of McAlister, Ah Kuoi, Kirifi, Lio-Willie, McLeod, Fihaki and Stevenson...
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks XV 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks XV 2024:
Meanwhile the best performing loose forward trio in Super has one player who has been tried and now can't make a 23, and the other two can't make the AB squad (one of whom would not be departing offshore if the selectors had interest in him). Throw in that this coaching setup is chasing Frizell to be in the squad next year.....
Yeah - but, is that unusual?
To use your words, a little bit odd indeed.
Last year the Crusaders won Super rugby for the 7th consecutive season and they had no loose forwards in the initial RWC squad. Blackadder got a late call up and played a minnow game or two.
Because the Crusader loosies weren't the best of the best. And they weren't winning the super for 7 years, for much of that Read and someone called McCaw were playing. Nice try, no cigar. This year Sotutu and Ioane were form loose forwards and won the championship and got narry a tadpole.
Paps has been fighting Cane - who's been 1st choice for the past 5 years. I find it a little bit odd they've stuck with Sam given he's leaving, but presumably he's giving them things they think Paps isn't. One thing it's certainly not evidence of is Crusaders' bias.
David Havili says hi.
From a hospital bed and a red n black dripfeed, Blackadder attempts to say hi.
Fihaki gives a big big wave.Razor said his closest call was between Sotutu and Sititi and much of the past week has been veiled insinuations that he'll be shown to be a lying fuck. The jury is in and it's found in favour of Razor.
But it was really between Savea and Sotutu because they played Sititi at 6.
On Akira, there's been a lot of hypothetical conversations posited about what was said between him and Razor. I have no idea and I occasionally suspect some posters of being Akira (or his Mum), so if they actually know something they should come out and say it.
His mum was a Black Fern so too knowledgeable to be a poster here.
But the selection patterns do not say that Ryan had no interest in him.
Patterns? You see patterns?
