All Blacks 2023
-
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2023:
well there you fucking go. you gambled and you're losing. 4 locks and 5 loosies and you're down 2 early doors already.
Looks like @ACT-Crusader was right, LF to blindside for the France game.
Interestingly Ireland only have 5 loosies in their current squad. Although they have 5 locks.
-
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2023:
the real fun begins if we lose another forward against the Boks to a 3 week
type injuryban. Then they are forced in to a hard call just to field a team.Fixed
Fozzie ain't dropping no one.
-
-
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2023:
They have 3 fit locks and 4 fit loosies.
Fucking hell.
2 fit locks and 1 Whitelock
-
Jacobson has to line up at 6 against the Boks too, you would think.
Bit wild, getting his first two starts since 2021 in back to back matches against the Boks and then France in a WC opener.
Probably should have been given a good run earlier in the year...
-
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2023:
Jacobson has to line up at 6 against the Boks too, you would think.
Bit wild, getting his first two starts since 2021 in back to back matches against the Boks and then France in a WC opener.
Probably should have been given a good run earlier in the year...
In an ideal world, yes, but I think considering his injuries and head knocks the coaches have handled him relatively well..
-
Pretty interesting stuff. The players fought for Fozzie’s job.
-
@Mattasaurus cough Hansen cough SBW.
Had Hansen stayed with RC and ALB we may have performed better. For a start, RC wouldn't have been sent off.
-
'I won’t be protecting anyone': All Blacks dismiss 'cotton wool' for World Cup warm up
Injuries have already changed the landscape of the Rugby World Cup, with France pivot Romain Ntamack the latest to be struck down.
He is resting Brodie and Shannon for the warmup and opener against the Boks.
-
@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2023:
'I won’t be protecting anyone': All Blacks dismiss 'cotton wool' for World Cup warm up
Injuries have already changed the landscape of the Rugby World Cup, with France pivot Romain Ntamack the latest to be struck down.
He is resting Brodie and Shannon for the warmup and opener against the Boks.
They are both injured so he is not resting them.
-
@Canes4life Turn around has been startling.
Forwards are always more important than backs. Ryan is the key. -
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks 2023:
@Canes4life Turn around has been startling.
Forwards are always more important than backs. Ryan is the key.Biggest change has been in the mindset across the team. There has clearly been some between-season soul-searching and changes in attitude and approach. The panicky,headless-chicken stuff across the team seems to have gone.
The forwards have generally been OK and utterly dominant when they want to be (2nd half against France 2 yrs ago) but all too often in recent years mentally signed-off with dumb play (last quarter against England last year). That's changed. More focus and precision.
The attack and defence have improved hugely also and Foster & co. seem to have finally got the Bo'unga axis working well. And we seem to have a pretty settled A team for the first time in yonks.
-
@Victor-Meldrew
And none of this would have happened had Ryan and Schmidt not come on board. The players love for Foster notwithstanding. -
@Frank said in All Blacks 2023:
@Victor-Meldrew
And none of this would have happened had Ryan and Schmidt not come on board.There's been improvements across the board - inc. the mental stuff - and it's more likely down to a team effort rather than 1 person (Schmidt was pretty much involved before).
-
There's been significant technical improvement in set piece and ball retention in the tackle.
-
@Frank said in All Blacks 2023:
@Victor-Meldrew
And none of this would have happened had Ryan and Schmidt not come on board. The players love for Foster notwithstanding.Our style of play, and personnel is almost unrecognisable compared to the team that put Foster on the brink of being fired
-
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks 2023:
There's been significant technical improvement in set piece and ball retention in the tackle.
I think Ryan has made a difference there, and seems to have forwards going better than maybe Plumtree did? But it quite hard to judge , also I think it was always in last year that any coach would start to really show hands. I just happy with way team has progressed anyway, and from where I sitting and what I have seen it hard to say what and where exact details have changed.
-
As a serial Foster basher, for all the crap he got (deservedly so in my book), he now deserves the credit for assembling a team that seems to be well-coached. It can't go just one way. Foster, Schmitt, and Ryan are giving us a team that is soooo far from the headless chook, directionless days of 2020, 2021, and early 2022.
-
Yeah fair call from another Foster kicker, he does deserve some credit.
Stuff
