The Silver Fern

@Kirwan said in Sevu Reece - in trouble again:

Has Robertson made him captain yet?

Insert Patrick Bateman “oooh” meme here.

@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:

@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

Why did Piutau end up leaving NZ? I seem to recall he was an absolute stud.

Was it just a case of the ABs being stacked with back 3 talent or did he fall out with the coaching staff?

Was basically the highest paid player in the world for a good 5 year period. Ulster, Bristol and Wasps paid him top dollar.

And he also left prematurely, which wasnt the norm.

He had loads of good rugby left in him.

Thats why I was comparing Toeava to him.

Charles eked out a great career, albeit not on these shores.

Toeava was a gun but his body failed him. Could have been an all time great.

Could do it all (and maybe that was part of the problem).

His ommision from the 2015 RWC was contentious wasnt it? Because I think he did not leave for the NH until after the tournament.

Obviously Ben Smith & Savea were nailed down starters but I think Naholo was coming off an injury and NMS was like an up and comer but a bit of an unknown quantity.

I could be wrong on the above but I just remember thinking it was crazy that such a talent could not get into the squad.

I remember talk from the coaches , something about his skillset , they thought he played left better than right ,

Jules was the incumbent there and was automatic , and they picked NMS and Naholo to have a shoot out it to play right ,thats how i remember their reasoning ,

But yeah a great talent and one that got away , I remember the omission of Dagg at the time to be a bigger shock to most though

@mariner4life said in All Blacks MOTM v Italy:

that poll is telling. We played Italy and two of the top 3 are the props and the other is our baby blindside.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks MOTM v Italy:

that poll is telling. We played Italy and two of the top 3 are the props and the other is our baby blindside.

I get your point but conversely I'd like to think that's where we should expect our best performers to be: front row and the tight-loosie.

Mark Cavendish wins BBC Sport Lifetime Achievement Award.

Fair enough. A genuine spirit cycling legend and a cool nickname. The Manx Missile.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c0475w65054o

@dogmeat said in Italy v All Blacks:

Careful - I got pilloried for suggesting the great one was fucking thick.

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Based on current evidence, stupid is as stupid does

@Nepia said in All Blacks MOTM v France:

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks MOTM v France:

Went Roigard, Williams and Vaa'i. Honorable mentions to Reiko, RD and Lakai.

You know you can click on the vote total and it tells you who did it?

EDIT: Quoted the wrong post.
@voodoo

Nobody likes a show off mate

That drop by Ioane, coachkiller.

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks MOTM v Ireland:

@MN5 said in All Blacks MOTM v Ireland:

It was awesome seeing my favourite All Black of recent times Cieran Reed at training with the boys I must say.

Celtic for 'sentimental woodwind instrument'.

My favourite now is probably still RD Severe but he needs to improve his form a bit

easy money.

@mariner4life we were top tier on half way for the Bledisloe

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Algerian VPN works

with?

ExpressVPN

No, I meant what are you trying to achieve?

Oh watching the NZ v Ire Squidge vid

Sititi offcial MotM, I see

Although it is hard to judge match to match, against dif teams, at least we will get to see 6 days apart BB and DMac against top 5 teams. It will be also interesting if the game pan changes to be less kick and more chaos, and we see that Razor's big gameplan is 'just go play, boys, and fuck 'em up' - depends on who is ten

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks MOTM v Japan:

@Billy-Tell said in All Blacks MOTM v Japan:

Sititi, Tuipolotou, Sotutu.

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Zero errors

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:

But is it?

Yeah, I think that attitude is there and is important to maintain, so good on England's players there. I think a bit of the PR is overdone, and some player (e.g.Sexton) don't seem to get the idea but it's a key part of the game.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/news/daily-news-1723786396818-f183-1723941497988/chaos-in-all-blacks-untidy-win-against-average-japan-side-in-depth

Same as most people here, they not giving that performance vs 14th ranked Japan a pass at all

@canefan said in All Blacks EOYT:

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks EOYT:

France will be tough, tougher than the Irish I suspect. Hope the ABs are up for it.

We are building each week. I expect significant improvement, win or lose

This for me. As long as we build on the Ireland game and don't regress to headless chicken stuff we saw against England, it'll be a really successful tour.

Sititi ALB Jordan. Pretty clear cut for me.

@Chris-B said in If we win Bled 2, are you happy heading into the end of year tour?:

@Frank Be confident and say it yourself if that's what you believe! 🙂

Havili - if they take five midfielders he'll be the fifth.

Christie - probably not.

Cane - for the past month it has looked an awful lot like they think he's still the best openside in New Zealand. What have you seen the makes you think they think someone else is better?

TJ - I wouldn't b surprised.

@Frank You bewdy - 100 percent on another test! 🙂

@MN5 said in TJ Perenara - is this the end?:

@nostrildamus said in TJ Perenara - is this the end?:

@MN5 said in TJ Perenara - is this the end?:
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It’s like me making claims about TJ cos I happen to see him at Whitby New World quite a bit...

Arguing with the cashiers?

Waving his arms in an exasperated fashion at the self serve machines last I saw

Gold. Did the supervisor come rushing over with their coupon card?