EOYT 2017
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@sammyc How has Tim Perry improved since his days in Auckland where he would come on for the last 10 and give up a couple of penalties. A human accordion at scrums time. Can't understand this and he is 29? Yes props are not loose forwards but they are becoming more dynamic and have to be.
It's like the Matt Todd thing bro........
Not comparable, everyone knows why Todd is in the ABs ... Perry's inclusion has taken a lot of injuries and presumably a bump on the head to Hansen, even Chris B is stunned.
Do we have to drop caveman Whitelock under your new haircut policy?
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@sammyc How has Tim Perry improved since his days in Auckland where he would come on for the last 10 and give up a couple of penalties. A human accordion at scrums time. Can't understand this and he is 29? Yes props are not loose forwards but they are becoming more dynamic and have to be.
It's like the Matt Todd thing bro........
Not comparable, everyone knows why Todd is in the ABs ... Perry's inclusion has taken a lot of injuries and presumably a bump on the head to Hansen, even Chris B is stunned.
Do we have to drop caveman Whitelock under your new haircut policy?
It was a joke, @broughie told me to "drop the Matt Todd thing" in another thread.... I can't recall posting anything about him at all.
I can't be bothered arguing about Perry....
I mentioned above I'm as surprised as anyone else he got picked. But I guess it's for his set piece ability as he isn't the 4th loose forward everyone seems to want at loosehead. -
The ABs are not the only team struggling with injuries
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/98175403/all-blacks-to-face-depleted-tour-rivals-as-injuries-strike -
I actually hope Julian takes it as a chance to show the selectors they are wrong about him. I know he has some deficiencies in his game but when he is on form like vs France in 2015 hes un-fucking-stoppable. You can't coach that either. Plus hes young so I want to see him come back in and tear it up for another 50 odd international tries.
Imagine him on one wing and Reiko on the other.
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I actually hope Julian takes it as a chance to show the selectors they are wrong about him. I know he has some deficiencies in his game but when he is on form like vs France in 2015 hes un-fucking-stoppable. You can't coach that either. Plus hes young so I want to see him come back in and tear it up for another 50 odd international tries.
Imagine him on one wing and Reiko on the other.
The selectors aren't wrong about him, he simply isn't in any sort of form. If he can't tear it up at NPC level then tests are currently out of the picture.
I don't disagree with how good an in form Jules would be with Ioane. We haven't had an absolute killer back three for a while. -
@no-quarter said in EOYT 2017:
Was hoping they would take A Ioane. He is clearly quality. I wonder if he fails the no dickheads policy assessment. Are they going to play Squire at 8 for the game Read misses?
Surely if Akira fails the no dickheads policy then so does Squire. I mean just look at the guy, he has a raging fucking mullet FFS.
Good point.... I'm all for dropping guys with dumb haircuts. Would probabaly result in a few more Canterbury players getting picked
Merhts/Toddy bowlcuts definitely set a high standard back in the late 90s
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Assume Aaron Smith cuts his own hair, and Ardies and Genias...
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@taniwharugby said in EOYT 2017:
Assume Aaron Smith cuts his own hair, and Ardies and Genias...
Yeah those do's are fucken horrendous.
Do I sound old and racist saying this?
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so Goodhue is ill and wont fly out with ABs now, instead joining them next week, making it highly unlikely he will suit up v the Baabaas.
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@taniwharugby said in EOYT 2017:
Assume Aaron Smith cuts his own hair, and Ardies and Genias...
I was sure he'd done it for a bet when I saw him in the last test.
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Barrett to lead All Blacks during build-up
With no Kieran Read in the All Blacks' advance party to Britain to play the Barbarians on Saturday, first five-eighths Beauden Barrett would be fulfilling Read's captaincy directions for the tour during the first week while a playing captain would be announced when the Barbarians team was named. Read had spoken with the team before they left New Zealand on Friday and laid out his expectations and Barrett as a vice-captain would lead that during the week whether he would be playing against the Barbarians or not, coach Steve Hansen said after the team's arrival at their London base. Hansen said they would be treating the Barbarians game like a Test match and it was a chance for those players who had not played too much Test rugby to pull on the jersey and make a statement.If Barrett was to be named captain nothing much would change for him. As first five-eighths he was the driver of the side. "He's got the number 10 on his back which is the main computer in a team, they tend to touch the ball more than anybody else and make more decisions than anybody else, instead of talking to Reado he'll just talk to himself," he said.http://www.allblacks.com/News/31690/barrett-to-lead-all-blacks-during-build-up
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@stargazer How is Shag treating the Baabaas game as a test match if he is leaving the likes of Kiran Read out?
