All Blacks 2022

Crucial

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:

Unavailable for selection due to injury - Joe Moody, Anton Lienert-Brown, Ethan Blackadder.

Unavailable for selection due to New Zealand Rugby return to play criteria - Patrick Tuipulotu, Damian McKenzie.

You’d have to say the first three would’ve made it - Moody over Karl T, ALB over LF, Blackadder over PGS.

But would PT and DMac have been certainties?

PT over Lord possibly. DMac over Perofeta?

PT no. DMac would depend on if he played super and how he went. Would be a massive selection battle between DMac and Perofeta.

antipodean

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:

Unavailable for selection due to injury - Joe Moody, Anton Lienert-Brown, Ethan Blackadder.

Unavailable for selection due to New Zealand Rugby return to play criteria - Patrick Tuipulotu, Damian McKenzie.

You’d have to say the first three would’ve made it - Moody over Karl T, ALB over LF, Blackadder over PGS.

Agreed.

But would PT and DMac have been certainties?

PT over Lord possibly. DMac over Perofeta?

On form I'd take Lord and Perofeta.

Tim

Fox delusional:

"You could think that there's something massively wrong with our game, but there's not. We've got to tweak some things."

Winger

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

@Winger said in All Blacks 2022:

Highlander 2
Canes 3
Chiefs 9
Crusaders 10
Blues 11

Too many Canes 😉

Its an issue the Canes have now.

Chris B.

@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2022:

Is this the most average looking All Blacks team for a while? I feel like there are so many ??, not a good thing 1 year out from a World Cup.

Hang on. This is only a couple of selections away from what we all expected or would have selected. Jumping on the negative pretty quickly aren't you?

Fozzie's been bolder than me at halfback!!!

ACT Crusader

@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2022:

@Crucial said in All Blacks 2022:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2022:

Is this the most average looking All Blacks team for a while? I feel like there are so many ??, not a good thing 1 year out from a World Cup.

Hang on. This is only a couple of selections away from what we all expected or would have selected. Jumping on the negative pretty quickly aren't you?

Fozzie's been bolder than me at halfback!!!

I like what he’s done at halfback. Christie has some work ons but I think there is more upside than Weber. They obviously like Fakatava’s speed to the ruck - biggest thing for him IMO is that he doesn’t have to make the big play or throw the no look pass all the time. Just play.

taniwharugby

looking at those props (aside form Ofa) we are gonna need to start ST for his ball running, one of SW & BR will need to play 80, while workign extra hard....

number9

So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.

Mattasaurus

@Daffy-Jaffy said in All Blacks 2022:

No DeGroot is he injured?

I'm pretty surprised too...
Maybe work rate is the question but I think he'll appear before the end of the season.

Stargazer

Tim

Could put together a decent NZ A 23.

1 Hodgman
2 Eklund
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Goodhue
6 Robinson
7 Harmon
8 Jacobson

9 Weber
10 McKenzie
11 Telea
12 TUJ
13 Sullivan
14 Lam
15 Sullivan

16 Aumua
17 Norris
18 Lomax
19 Strange
20 Mikaele-Tu'u
21 Perenara
22 Gatland
23 Ennor

Kirwan

Getting closer to this backline;

AS, BB, CC, RTS, RI, SR, WJ

Good luck defending that.

number9

@Mattasaurus his work rate is a heck of a lot higher than Karl T. Work rate has nothing to do with it. Foster is going to play a boring forwards game like last year. Props not getting involved at the breakdown and holding off. Bullshit gameplan. We will be get dominated once our locks get tired.

ACT Crusader

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

Bovidae

@Stargazer Lomax forgotten about.

Tim

@Bovidae That's how forgettable his year was!

Kirwan

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.

Unite

So Schmidt has had no input into selections right? He doesn’t start until after the Ireland series?

Tim

@Unite Think so, as Fox is still there. Maybe will start his analyst role next Monday?

antipodean

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:

We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.

Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.

I applaud that.

There's not much to applaud there. Form was obvious in the selection of the halfbacks. And RTS has a higher upside than Ennor does, who hasn't made a case to be an outside back deserving of selection.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks 2022