Japan vs All Blacks
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@hooroo said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@samurai-jack said in Japan vs All Blacks:
You all sound like those two old judges off the Muppets. Looking forward to this. Love seeing some of the next generation come through.
Probably the most mickey mouse AB side ever?
No. That would be the 1949 home ABs v Australia while the first 30 toured South Africa. We lost 0-2 and 0-4, the worst year in AB history.
Also the 1976 tourists to Argentina again while the first 30 toured South Africa (although, unlike 1949, they weren't awarded test status by NZRU as Argentina weren't considered a test nation at the time)
This team is only missing 22.
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@nepia said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@mn5 said in Japan vs All Blacks:
For some reason I thought Brewer captained the ABs on debut ?
Didn't that Otago back up hooker captain the ABs in his first match?
As did John Mitchell.
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It appears there is still no tv rights holder for this match in the UK?
Any ferners over here know if there is a plan?
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@booboo said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@cgrant said in Japan vs All Blacks:
The All Blacks team should look like this, IMO :
J. Barrett
Naholo
Proctor
Laumape
Bridge
Mo'unga
TTT
L. Whitelock (capt)
Papali'i / Hunt
Fifita
Tuipolutu
Hemopo
Tu'ungafasi
Coles
PerryAumua
Reilly
Ta'avao
Retallick
Hunt / Papali'i
Drummond / Hall
Cameron
NMSReilly? 52nd player ...
(I think you mean O'Neill
)Yes, I know him so well that I forgot his name ...
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@davesofthunder said in Japan vs All Blacks:
It appears there is still no tv rights holder for this match in the UK?
Any ferners over here know if there is a plan?
http://www.allblacks.com/News/23739/all-blacks-japan-test-to-be-streamed-online-internationally
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@rapido said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@nepia said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Didn't that Otago back up hooker captain the ABs in his first match?
As did John Mitchell.
I had thought that too but Mitchell played 3 games with Zinny as captain before leading the ABs for the remaining 3 midweek tour games.
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@davesofthunder said in Japan vs All Blacks:
It appears there is still no tv rights holder for this match in the UK?
Any ferners over here know if there is a plan?
A free live stream for UK viewers is being shown here: https://allblackstv.com
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@kiwimurph said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@davesofthunder said in Japan vs All Blacks:
It appears there is still no tv rights holder for this match in the UK?
Any ferners over here know if there is a plan?
A free live stream for UK viewers is being shown here: https://allblackstv.com
Very happy to see they offer it on-demand also... not sure I'm willing to get up at 5:45 to watch All-Blacks-leftovers v Japan.
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Unless it's quite delayed, Jack Goodhues insta account indicates he is still in Japan as is Mounga.
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@taniwharugby said in Japan vs All Blacks:
@bovidae yea I just remembered the English test is next weekend not this one.
Arriving two days before would make Argentina to S.A. look like a cake walk! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
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That's a very melodramatic article.
This bit is wrong though. 1994 was when they started selling replicas. The CCC jersey with the red (but small) steinlager logo that Bovidae mentions above.
But, there was no such thing as an All Black replica jersey until 1999 the New Zealand Rugby Union punted Canterbury International - a New Zealand company that made the jersey for most of the 20th century - to get into bed with global giants adidas.
If as bad as it gets is that they remove, and then add-back, the white collar every 3 to 4 years then we don't know how lucky we are.
Spare a thought for Boks fans who had one of their greatest triumphs in this abomination:
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Dramatic piston wristed gibbons: "Waaaah, it's so shit how we keep losing players overseas"
also Dramatic piston wristed gibbons: "Waaah, it's so shit how the NZRU keep trying to make money off its best asset"
