All Blacks vs Tonga
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@DrivingMaul Do you know when the ABs are training this week? I might go down and have a look.
More importantly do you know when the team will be named?
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@ACT-Crusader Surely a question for @SouthernMann
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@sparky So that seems to indicate they don't want to risk Mo'unga.
Good plan. Ioane can get some reps, just in case
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Yes indeed. Or ist it the coaches know something we don't about the health of the squad?
Certianly gonna be interesting who they select for this clash,
I wouldn't want either Ritchie or Beaudy in the firing line. -
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@Rapido said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
Moouage always missing this game. Out for minimum 3 weeks.
Only question was whether Josh from outside the squad or some random unco from inside the squad.
"Hansen said there would be "heaps" of stuff they would be holding back this weekend, but plenty they need to also tick off, the main one being getting some minutes under the belt of some players.
Centre Jack Goodhue may not yet return this weekend, still being troubled by the hamstring injury he picked up against the Wallabies in Perth.
Hansen said he was still to see the medical report on first-five Richie Mo'unga, who took a shoulder knock against the Wallabies at Eden Park, and that non World Cup squad member Josh Ioane was therefore with the squad this week and a chance of a test debut."
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If anyone is wondering where that quote in @Machpants' post comes from, you can find it at the bottom of this article:
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I think the third and fourth choice Ten need some game time so Beauden Barrett gets a rest. Apart from that select the top team available.
So the team I'd pick:
- Moody 2. Coles 3. Laulala 4. Tuipulotu 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read 9. A.Smith 10. J. Barrett 11. R. Ioane 12. SBW 13. ALB 14. Reece 15. B.Smith 16. Taylor 17. Moli 18. Ta'avao 19. S. Barrett 20. Jacobson 21. TJP 22. J.Ioane 23. G.Bridge
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@sparky said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
I think the third and fourth choice Ten need some game time so Beauden Barrett gets a rest. Apart from that select the top team available.
So the team I'd pick:
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Moody 2. Coles 3. Laulala 4. Tuipulotu 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read 9. A.Smith 10. J. Barrett 11. R. Ioane 12. SBW 13. ALB 14. Reece 15. B.Smith
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Taylor 17. Moli 18. Ta'avao 19. S. Barrett 20. Jacobson 21. TJP 22. J.Ioane 23. G.Bridge
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"We won't risk anyone who's 50-50, or even 80-20," Hansen told a press conference in Hamilton.
"If we could play all 31 members in the weekend, that's what we'd do. But we're only allowed to play 23. So we're going to have to make some hard decisions, because not all of them can play."
