AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?
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@Bones said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@taniwharugby what was the game where Blair was in the clear but then mowed down then?
Was that the Argentina test in 01? The one that Razor scored late in the match for the win.
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@ACT-Crusader I thought it was kinda what TR described but my memory had it the other way around.
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@Bones said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@taniwharugby what was the game where Blair was in the clear but then mowed down then?
By Ben Cohen if memory serves. Judging from recent pics of him the only running he’s been doing is to the front of the line at Maccas.
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@Bones said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@MN5 this is getting confusing, that's my memory, Blair in space out wide with the tryline open, but couldn't even run it in and got bundled into touch. I've no recollection of him missing a tackle on Cohen.
I love it when we’re both right
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@Bones illegal tackle today, sad really!
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@taniwharugby said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Bones illegal tackle today, sad really!
In that case let’s all prepare to laud Damian McKenzie as the greatest Rugby player to ever lace boots
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@antipodean said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Nothing says experiment like All Black Ben Blair.
Decent AB debut for Benny!
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@Bones said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@Chris-B that's a fucked up backline!
Ireland clearly had no depth back then. Giving up that many points to a backline with the collective speed of an asthmatic ant carrying shopping.
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@mariner4life said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@antipodean said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@BerniesCorner said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
N Laumape has to start at 12
Laumape doesn't pass, kinda important skill for second five-eighth.
which is a bit of a bugger, because all our others can pass, and have nice light feet, but aren't physical units. So we give a bit somewhere no matter what.
Which makes playing someone like a Laumape at 12 OK (not ideal but still OK) because his deficiencies are made out both inside and outside him.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@mariner4life said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@KiwiMurph said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
@mariner4life was it the 06 End of Year Tour where they basically alternated between two separate starting XVs?
I think 06 also was when ABs played one squad in Argentina (captained by Collins?) the same weekend (or very close to) another test the ABs had with a totally different squad (think it was a test in NZ).
2005 was where the hammered Wales one week, turned up with a new team the next week and hammered Ireland. its was taking the piss.
Then we beat England at Twickers despite 3 yellow cards (including 2 at the same time)
oh, and of course we beat Scotland on the way home.
The Fern was a funny place during that 05 EOYT. “Cheapening the jersey”...
Wales match
Tialata, Oliver, Hayman, Jack, Ryan, Collins, Masoe, So’oialo, Kelleher, Carter, Rokocoko, Umaga, Smith, Gear, MuliainaIreland match
Woodcock, Mealamu, Afoa, Eaton, Williams, Lauaki, McCaw, Tuiali’i, Weepu, Evans, Sivivatu, Mauger, Nonu, Howlett, L. MacDonaldOther players on tour
Taumoepeau, Hore, A. MacDonald, Cowan, ToeavaI recall debate about whether the ABs could win the GS on one weekend and I came up with four XVs for which it was conceivable. Nudging towards the stronger XV for England, mid-strength IRE & WAL, best of the rest to take on the Jocks. (Got real scratchy when you added benches though.)
I recall the Home Nation (and French ie., @Pdp / @Parcy-v2-0) posters actually being impressed.
Depth at that time was just insane.
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Laumape has done enough to deserve a chance at 12. Who says he can't further develop his passing and kicking skills in an AB enviroment. Thats the great thing about rugby everyone's different.
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@BerniesCorner said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:
Laumape has done enough to deserve a chance at 12. Who says he can't further develop his passing and kicking skills in an AB enviroment. Thats the great thing about rugby everyone's different.
I remember a time when many people on this site thought of Nonu as a ball hog who would never make the grade in black......
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Something has gone horribly wrong if a player has to become an All Black in order to learn to pass.
