All Blacks 2021

[taniwharugby]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/124965417/all-blacks-lock-brodie-retallick-fittest-hes-ever-been-after-japan-stint-but-challenge-of-return-awaits

[MN5]

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/124965417/all-blacks-lock-brodie-retallick-fittest-hes-ever-been-after-japan-stint-but-challenge-of-return-awaits

Given that he was already fit then that’s pretty damn fit indeed

[Stargazer]

@taniwharugby

“I won’t be back to play any part in Super Rugby this year,” he said. “The final for the Top League is scheduled for May 22, and then with quarantine spots getting back to New Zealand isn’t too easy. I won’t be arriving back in New Zealand until about May 31, and then obviously having to quarantine for two weeks.”

With that time line, he'll fit right in the Magpies squad for the Heartland-Ranfurly Shield defence at the end of June. Could be a great first hit-out for him back in NZ; and great for spectators at the ground and tv viewers.

[Yeetyaah]

@stargazer fuck that'd be cool to so Guzzler play in the NPC.

[Yeetyaah]

Might be off topic but what do we think the chances are of having North vs South again this year?

[Kiwiwomble]

@yeetyaah maybe a N v S of those not in the SRTT final?

[Stargazer]

@yeetyaah IIRC, they have N v S game planned in case the July tests don't go ahead.

[Mackerzzzz]

@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:

@yeetyaah IIRC, they have N v S game planned in case the July tests don't go ahead.

Can we do It as well pleeeeeeeeasssseeeee

[Machpants]

@yeetyaah said in All Blacks 2021:

@stargazer fuck that'd be cool to so Guzzler play in the NPC.

Beaudy, and TJ maybe, in the same boat

[Stargazer]

@machpants I only mentioned the Heartland-Ranfurly Shield game between the Magpies and a Heartland team, which will normally be end of June. NPC will probably start in August, so it will depend on whether ABs selected for the Bledisloe Cup and TRC will be released. They've done it before, so it could happen, but it's a different time/situation to that Heartland-Ranfurly Shield game.

[Billy Tell]

If the ABs are going to do a bolter or an apprentice this year then look no further than De Groot imho.

[cgrant]

Is Parkinson out for the season or will he be fit to play in the TT competition ? His size could be useful for the ABs, particularly for clearing bodies in the rucks.

[Crucial]

@cgrant said in All Blacks 2021:

Is Parkinson out for the season or will he be fit to play in the TT competition ? His size could be useful for the ABs, particularly for clearing bodies in the rucks.

Apparently Round 1 of SRTT

[taniwharugby]

Given the first few games are likely to be a big factor in Fozzies future as AB coach, I'm not sure hevis gonna stay too far from what he knows, we saw that last year and the fact there was little freshness to the squad or the game plan

[booboo]

@mackerzzzz said in All Blacks 2021:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:

@mn5 if you watched a game now an again, you'd realise that statement is so 90s.

Its 2021 that's 30 years ago... most/some of us were not even born then

Not sure you have a good grasp on the Fern demographic

[Canes4life]

@yeetyaah they should be doing this every year. That game last year was probably the game of the season.

[Snowy]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2021:

Not sure you have a good grasp on the Fern demographic

Who would have thought that so many Polish chicks would be so into rugby and yet be so wrong about it most of the time?

[Old Samurai Jack]

@billy-tell Him and that Chiefs fella Ross (?) both look like good prospects.

[sparky]

@yeetyaah said in All Blacks 2021:

Might be off topic but what do we think the chances are of having North vs South again this year?

Increasingly likely if Italy decide not to visit NZ.

[Yeetyaah]

@sparky I'd rather have NvS than a dead rubber fame v Italy. Probably not a popular opinion