All Blacks 2023
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@Toddy said in All Blacks 2023:
Interesting that Cane doesn't make the top 10 list. Is it an adjustment to his game after his bad run of injuries or has it always been a bit of a myth that he's a dominant tackler.
Impressive from Akira to be up there after so few minutes this year.
I question the stats. Unless I need eye surgery, you couldn't convince me Ardie or Harry is a more dominant tackler than Sam.
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@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2023:
It was also what Grant Fox was saying at a lunvh he was speaking at,
what, that they ignore stats?
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 you say that like there aren't several AB match threads with loads of comments along the lines of "whats he done?"...normally stats are the counterargument when people cant see what a player provides when theyre just watching....but very few people see what he provides...and the stats dont paint a different picture....
Hey I not against everyone having opinion, and some use stats to back them up, but usually stats don't paint the picture. Even Ediie Jones reckons you can't pick teams without watching players live etc, but he get's them all into camp and see how they actually train before naming team. I reckon the best thing on stats was one I heard Tabi Matson speak about on tv when someone quoted stats to him, he says the ones we have access are of very little use in seeing how players went, and then went into explaining the ones they used, which were way over my head. As I say, doesn't stop us being able to have opinions, just most of ours (mine included) are from seeing a fraction of the picture.
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@Duluth said in All Blacks 2023:
Where's Shannon?
Getting a shoulder replacement as we speak 😉
I’m not surprised Sotutu didn’t make it but I am disappointed. And the fact he didn’t even make the ABXV suggests more to this than just down on form or not being in the top 10 of this or that.
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@Duluth said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2023:
if you think Jason Ryan is a liar
What the fuck are you talking about?
Just asking if people don't believe him when he says they watch/ study everything a heap more than us before naming teams.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2023:
It was also what Grant Fox was saying at a lunvh he was speaking at,
what, that they ignore stats?
No that stats were only a small part of how they picked teams, especially the limited ones we see.
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2023:
In regard to Frizell and Sotutu.
How about we pick neither?
Neither have been impressive.
I have been repeatedly told that I should be impressed by Sotutu, but I never have been.
As for Frizell, the less said about him the better.Pretty hard to disagree, I always been pretty keen on Frizells play, this year not so much, though can understand perhaps why , as Ryan says they looking for hard carrying forward etc. I would of been happy if he missed though. We probably also have to remember that there are still players to be culled before WC, so maybe having a last look at some?
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2023:
I’m not surprised Sotutu didn’t make it but I am disappointed. And the fact he didn’t even make the ABXV suggests more to this than just down on form or not being in the top 10 of this or that.
I wonder if the Blues gameplan has prevented these guys from showing what they're capable of in the manner the All Black selectors were looking for.
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@antipodean so either McDonald with an FU to Foster, or Foster with an FU to McDonald.
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@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 you say that like there aren't several AB match threads with loads of comments along the lines of "whats he done?"...normally stats are the counterargument when people cant see what a player provides when theyre just watching....but very few people see what he provides...and the stats dont paint a different picture....
Hey I not against everyone having opinion, and some use stats to back them up, but usually stats don't paint the picture. Even Ediie Jones reckons you can't pick teams without watching players live etc, but he get's them all into camp and see how they actually train before naming team. I reckon the best thing on stats was one I heard Tabi Matson speak about on tv when someone quoted stats to him, he says the ones we have access are of very little use in seeing how players went, and then went into explaining the ones they used, which were way over my head. As I say, doesn't stop us being able to have opinions, just most of ours (mine included) are from seeing a fraction of the picture.
no a single person is saying they dont or you shouldnt watch the game live...almost all of us do...what people are saying is when THEY DO watch...he fails to impress....and then when they look at the stats....they support that he does little impressive
what youre effectively saying is...what he does...cant be quantified...and is also invisible...but its worth it
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@Kiwiwomble I admire your patience.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble I admire your patience.
im a glutton for punishment...Highlanders aren't playing...NPC hasn't started yet....so
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2023:
@Dan54 you say that like there aren't several AB match threads with loads of comments along the lines of "whats he done?"...normally stats are the counterargument when people cant see what a player provides when theyre just watching....but very few people see what he provides...and the stats dont paint a different picture....
Hey I not against everyone having opinion, and some use stats to back them up, but usually stats don't paint the picture. Even Ediie Jones reckons you can't pick teams without watching players live etc, but he get's them all into camp and see how they actually train before naming team. I reckon the best thing on stats was one I heard Tabi Matson speak about on tv when someone quoted stats to him, he says the ones we have access are of very little use in seeing how players went, and then went into explaining the ones they used, which were way over my head. As I say, doesn't stop us being able to have opinions, just most of ours (mine included) are from seeing a fraction of the picture.
no a single person is saying they dont or you shouldnt watch the game live...almost all of us do...what people are saying is when THEY DO watch...he fails to impress....and then when they look at the stats....they support that he does little impressive
what youre effectively saying is...what he does...cant be quantified...and is also invisible...but its worth it
Reuben Thorne has entered the chat.
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@Kiwiwomble this is one of the funniest things I've read in a while though. I never thought of that! Eddie Jones is a mastermind eh.
Even Ediie Jones reckons you can't pick teams without watching players live etc
