Baby Blacks

Bovidae

Who's our Joe Stanley? A late 20s debutant.

Bones

Love

Why does this guy get so much love? I've not seen anything from him apart from a couple of decent runs, but anything good seems few and far between. Seems like a poor man's Ihaia West to me.

Bones

Definitely Ainsley over Jager.

Dickson and Hicks worth a look?

Nankivell could probably do the Havili role better than Havili at the moment...

Grooter

@Crucial when you mention Gardner do you mean Dom Gardiner from the crusaders😳

Stargazer

So is this about the All Blacks XV?

Grooter

@Chris I must suggest Jona Nareki! If I didn't I would feel let down in myself

Grooter

@Bovidae Roger is late 20's😔

Nepia

@Bones said in Baby Blacks:

Definitely Ainsley over Jager.

That's a tough one, the Irish guy or the NZer who chose Oz.

mariner4life

@Stargazer said in Baby Blacks:

So is this about the All Blacks XV?

no

THe NZRU has now banned most of the AB squad for being shit. In order to meet our test match obligations new players must be found. new players who will go on to revolutionise rugby and win the world cup next year

Stargazer

@mariner4life But many of the players mentioned in this thread will be in the All Blacks XV team that will tour this year.

KiwiMurph

AJ Lam

mariner4life

@Stargazer said in Baby Blacks:

@mariner4life But many of the players mentioned in this thread will be in the All Blacks XV team that will tour this year.

dude fuck it's a hypothetical question to look at other options. Don't over think it

Stargazer

@mariner4life Okay.

Stargazer

Here's your Baby Blacks team, plus/minus a few other players:

https://www.allblacks.com/news/new-zealand-under-20-squad-named

Grooter

@Stargazer George Bell will be the first to make the all blacks out of that group I think, it's just a prediction I could very well be wrong

Bones

@KiwiMurph said in Baby Blacks:

AJ Lam

A winger that rips into everything, makes great decisions and very few mistakes?

Back 3 of him, Perofuture and Reece would be tasty.

Chris

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Baby Blacks:

@Stargazer George Bell will be the first to make the all blacks out of that group I think, it's just a prediction I could very well be wrong

I think you are 100%. correct

Crucial

@FakatavaAllBlack said in Baby Blacks:

@Crucial when you mention Gardner do you mean Dom Gardiner from the crusaders😳

Yep. Bad spelling sorry

Grooter

@Crucial he reminds me of if Scott Gregory was a loose forward.. 😅 hopefully Dom can prove me wrong! The more good young players coming through the better

Crucial

I thought that the concept was easy to understand.
Not a second XV. Not necessarily players that would be next cab in a spate of injuries and also not necessarily the U20s.
Add to those current ABs that are doing Ok a bunch of fresh faces with high ceilings and accelerate their progress.
The likes of Zarn Sullivan as example. Anyone with half a brain can see the talent and time on ball this guy has. Instead of making him wait, chuck him in the pool now.
There’s quite a few like him if you look around.
Our seconds are seconds mostly because they aren’t even as good as the current mob and probably never will be.
Let’s get the future a head start.

The Silver Fern

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