Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain
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@mariner4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
just reflecting on Sam Cane. It's been a while since the AB captain wasn't a point of difference, the kind of guy most fans want on their teams. Most international fans, with some justification, would not see Cane as an upgrade on their current 7.
That's because most of them are halfwits who think Pocock was god's gift to flankers. You'll never see Cane look up to see a Kaino in front of him and shovel the ball on in fear.
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@Frank Cane is a lot weaker than Ardie in most other facets. Your point? All players have their strengths and weaknesses. Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
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@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Frank Cane is a lot weaker than Ardie in most other facets. Your point? All players have their strengths and weaknesses. Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
England didn't score any tries when Cane was on the field ...
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@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
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@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
He's no flash Harry, but he does a huge amount of the grunt work
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@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
when you have your yellow goggles on...
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@mariner4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
when you have your yellow goggles on...
He should give the goggles to Ardie....
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@canefan said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
He's no flash Harry, but he does a huge amount of the grunt work
He's no Beaudy on attack, but what he brings to the team is irreplaceable and for most people highly visible. Ardie's a great player and needs to be in the squad, but not at the expense of Sam.
Having both of them means the other flanker has to be tall. Proper tall. Like taller than a Canes lock.
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@mariner4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
We all know and respect what Cane brings to the ABs, but he's a role player rather than a standout. It's a bit of a difference after the Tana-Richie-Read years (and that's a lot of years).
Tana? Never the clear best in his position world wide (BOD and Mortlock just out of the gate) and they didn’t skip a beat at centre in the following two seasons even with hyper rotation.
Read was super banged up to the point where you could reasonably say he wasn’t one of our top three lopsided.
McCaw kind of spoiled us, but shorter captaincy stints without the expectation of a full RWC cycle will hopefully become the norm.
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@antipodean people forget that John Plumtree is in the coaching setup, he won't let Ardie sit on the pine and knows full well he's too good to leave out, so it's up to Foster to find an appropriate 6.
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@rotated said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@mariner4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
We all know and respect what Cane brings to the ABs, but he's a role player rather than a standout. It's a bit of a difference after the Tana-Richie-Read years (and that's a lot of years).
Tana? Never the clear best in his position world wide (BOD and Mortlock just out of the gate) and they didn’t skip a beat at centre in the following two seasons even with hyper rotation.
Read was super banged up to the point where you could reasonably say he wasn’t one of our top three lopsided.
McCaw kind of spoiled us, but shorter captaincy stints without the expectation of a full RWC cycle will hopefully become the norm.
That's a serious underrating of Tana, he was clearly the best centre by some distance in NZ and was definitely competitive with the two you mentioned.
And quite frankly we did struggle at centre until Smith got over his injury issues, it's preposterous to suggest otherwise.
I find it completely bonkers the underrating of Tana as a player in recent years (I have my suspicions it's due to his coaching record) and his captaincy served us well.
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@Nepia said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@rotated said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@mariner4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
We all know and respect what Cane brings to the ABs, but he's a role player rather than a standout. It's a bit of a difference after the Tana-Richie-Read years (and that's a lot of years).
Tana? Never the clear best in his position world wide (BOD and Mortlock just out of the gate) and they didn’t skip a beat at centre in the following two seasons even with hyper rotation.
Read was super banged up to the point where you could reasonably say he wasn’t one of our top three lopsided.
McCaw kind of spoiled us, but shorter captaincy stints without the expectation of a full RWC cycle will hopefully become the norm.
That's a serious underrating of Tana, he was clearly the best centre by some distance in NZ and was definitely competitive with the two you mentioned.
And quite frankly we did struggle at centre until Smith got over his injury issues, it's preposterous to suggest otherwise.
I find it completely bonkers the underrating of Tana as a player in recent years (I have my suspicions it's due to his coaching record) and his captaincy served us well.
I agree, he wasnt as good as BOD in attack, but he was better than Mortlock, and better than both of them defensively
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@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@canefan said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@antipodean said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Canes4life said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
Not like Cane dominanted against England either, in fact he didn’t really stand out during the World Cup at all.
He only did the second highest amount of tackles in the whole team at 95% success rate. What were you watching?
He's no flash Harry, but he does a huge amount of the grunt work
He's no Beaudy on attack, but what he brings to the team is irreplaceable and for most people highly visible. Ardie's a great player and needs to be in the squad, but not at the expense of Sam.
Having both of them means the other flanker has to be tall. Proper tall. Like taller than a Canes lock.
If we had prime Jerome and Read at 6 and 8, I'd pick Ardie over Cane without thinking. But in our current/RWC setup, Cane just has/had to be there.
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@voodoo well if we got prime Kaino, we gonna still have prime Richie, so Ardie would probably be on the bench over Cane, although he wasn't
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@taniwharugby said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@voodoo well if we got prime Kaino, we gonna still have prime Richie, so Ardie would probably be on the bench over Cane, although he wasn't
Well Ardie has only come really good last few years, post Richie et al. But come good he has, K Tremain, World Rugby nom, etc. When pushed on this Foster has said we will be playing both as standard
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@taniwharugby said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@voodoo well if we got prime Kaino, we gonna still have prime Richie, so Ardie would probably be on the bench over Cane, although he wasn't
You get my point though, if we have a hard hitting 6, and 2 genuine lineout options from our 6/8, then I'm totally fine with a true fetcher at 7, a link player that doesn't need to hit the way Cane does.
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@MN5 said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Frank said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@Crucial
I still can't figure out why anyone would want to club a seal to death.
Mental.Not to take away from @Crucial s fantastic Dad joke but he actually shot it.
Maybe he didn't think of using the butt.
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@voodoo said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@taniwharugby said in Sam Cane - All Blacks Captain:
@voodoo well if we got prime Kaino, we gonna still have prime Richie, so Ardie would probably be on the bench over Cane, although he wasn't
You get my point though, if we have a hard hitting 6, and 2 genuine lineout options from our 6/8, then I'm totally fine with a true fetcher at 7, a link player that doesn't need to hit the way Cane does.
Great to be focusing the Fern's huge intellect away from CV onto another thing it's no expert on -- RUGBY!
