EOYT 2017

Stargazer

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

Stargazer

That Baabaas game is looking better and better:

Crucial

Yeah, I haven't gone for tickets to that one as I thought I'd enjoy the Scotland game more. may be keeping an eye out for something last minute now.

mooshld

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.

Crucial

@mooshld said in EOYT 2017:

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.

MN5

@sammyc said in EOYT 2017:

@no-quarter said in EOYT 2017:

@pukunui 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

Crucial

Cantabs and haircuts?

Two words...

Justin

Marshall

taniwharugby

Assume Aaron Smith cuts his own hair, and Ardies and Genias...

MN5

@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?

taniwharugby

@mn5 just old.

pakman

@taniwharugby said in EOYT 2017:

@mn5 just old.

You groovers ought to get a new thread.

Nepia

@taniwharugby said in EOYT 2017:

@mn5 just old.

Damn, I was going to go with just racist

taniwharugby

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.

Stargazer

Derm McCrum

@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.

Stargazer

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

Crash

@stargazer How is Shag treating the Baabaas game as a test match if he is leaving the likes of Kiran Read out?

Stargazer

@crash I assume he means the preparation, the game plan, the mental side of things? Just not the individual players who are actually taking the field. Isn't it always more about the team than about individuals?

Crash

@stargazer True, but when you consider who is not playing v Baabaas it is a little tongue-in-cheek to say the least....I'd rather they just come out and downgrade it to a New Zealand xv rather than full-blown ABs match, but I guess that's not what will pull the punters in...

pakman

Any one see who the mystery names for Maori were? Saw something about Shaun Stevenson, but couldn't find anything on Allblacks.com?

The Silver Fern

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