RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@mariner4life yeah I'd love to see prime JGP combination with DMac. Both with brilliant vision and ability to work the inside defence.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Keenan is better than Barrett at 15
Lowe would have walked in
Aki v jordie is a toss up
JGP would walk in to the ABs now, but he wouldn't thrn because A Smith
JvdF and Doris would have started for us. Both guns.Their locks were good but so were ours.
That was a great team.
Foster had a whole spine of U20 winning players (2009, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017) and the last of a golden generation that started with Rennie's juniors winning the U20s in 2008.
Ireland had a good team with mostly solid players (a few U20 runner's up from 2016), personally I never thought of that QF result as an upset, rather that NZ's players performed to their real potential after Schmidt took over strategy from Fozzie.
Remember Schmiddy was in charge for test 1 at home in 2022 where we beat Ireland 42-16, this isn't some coincidence.
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@darylmitchell said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@darylmitchell you are just horrible at evaluating players
just looking at their QF 23 on Wikipedia, only a few players I would consider for ABs, Rónan Kelleher, Caelan Doris, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong (2018-2022 form), Andrew Porter, Joe McCarthy, everyone else is quite overrated on here, and most are currently 32 or over.
I think I'm second to this, but I think we are just a quick whip-around from us getting (edit: politely requesting) the mods to rename you Fitzy.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Keenan is better than Barrett at 15
Lowe would have walked in
Aki v jordie is a toss up
JGP would walk in to the ABs now, but he wouldn't thrn because A Smith
JvdF and Doris would have started for us. Both guns.Their locks were good but so were ours.
That was a great team.
If we had turned from Nonu to Aki...
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Lowe would have walked in
Walked in over 2023 RWC Telea and Will Jordan?
DisagreeEDIT - forgot about Telea having the curfew issue.
I would put Lowe in the toss up category
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Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
He left at about the same time, maybe a bit before the AB selectors fell in love with George Bridge (I believe @dogmeat has specific experience of hearing one of the selectors on this)
I know there are age differences between the two, but Lowe's left boot, established super experience, and energy would have made him an interesting squaddie in 2017 when we were still trying to roll out Savea and Naholo (who weren't going to make the WC) and banking on Ioane (who was injured when it mattered in 2019).
I know who I'd have preferred on the left wing that day in 2019 against England, anyway.
Edit: And BTW, fuck James Lowe. And Aki. Leaving is fine, but turning out for another country is not cool - no free beers from @gt12 if we run in to each other in a pub somewhere.
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@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@gt12 the thing which gets me is these fluffybunnies pretending they're Irish now.
Fuck em, they are as far as I'm concerned.
Which means, they wear this shit too.
I loved them for the Chiefs, but I loved beating them in 2023.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Aki v jordie is a toss up
No it isn’t.
Put a genuine truck it up the guts/“no one comes down our channels eh pretty boy” 2nd 5 outside any of your flyhalves and you become a seriously scary team.
Make it Aki or Esterhuizen or that Scottish bloke who’ve also got good hands and you’re Freddie Krueger as your proctologist terrifying.
Jordie should be on the bench. He covers basically the whole backline at a high standard so you can go 6-2, which instantly improves your forward pack.
