All Blacks 2024.. locked

Bones

@Blunders said in All Blacks 2024:

Personally I think a backrow of Papalli, Savea and Blackadder would have got us across the line against the Boks, cards aside.

Especially if we selected two more opensides on the bench. Not even Rassie has the balls to select 5 opensides.

Blunders

@Bones Savea plays 8 and Blackadder plays 6 for the Crusaders struggling to see where your 3 opensides come from? Just because they can play multiple positions doesn't mean their best position is not where they play for their club week in and week out.

cgrant

@Bones said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:

So we’re happy with Havilli at 10 for the Crusaders as long as he’s no where near there for the ABs. Is that it ?

Yeah I'm generally more interested in see how a player plays before writing them off. It tends to make it easier to judge.

Unless it's Zach Guildford.

Some written off players can change your mind. Tamaiti Williams was deemed hopeless after his performance for the AB XV against the Barbarians, when he struggled at scrum time. He is one of the most improved player I have ever seen in such a short time.

Bones

@cgrant said in All Blacks 2024:

Tamaiti Williams was deemed hopeless after his performance for the AB XV against the Barbarians, when he struggled at scrum time

Come on man, no one was writing him off! If you were, you pulled the trigger almost before even loading the gun there.

DaGrubster

@Bones

He’s got ya bang to right there bones!

Tim

Blunders is the best new poster in years.

DaGrubster

@Blunders

I think Papalii didn’t play well enough to unseat Cane in Super rugby this year.

I thought he would have kicked on after the autumn internationals in 2022 but he had a below par super campaign.

Whereas Cane was pretty good and Fosters guy.

Papalii at 7 gives us the size of a blindside so it helps more with the balance in the backrow.

African Monkey

More Ethan Blackadder hype lol. You'd think he was Michael Jones, Richie McCaw and Jerome Kaino rolled into one the way he seems to be a certainty in most people's lineups.

MN5

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:

More Ethan Blackadder hype lol. You'd think he was Michael Jones, Richie McCaw and Jerome Kaino rolled into one the way he seems to be a certainty in most people's lineups.

A bit of tenacious Josh Kronfeld and Duane Monkley in there too I reckon.

African Monkey

@MN5 Hard to argue there.

MN5

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 Hard to argue there.

Chuck Norris has nightmares about Ethan Blackadder

Chris

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 Hard to argue there.

Chuck Norris has nightmares about Ethan Blackadder

So he should Chuck Norris is 100 years old now.

Victor Meldrew

@Tim said in All Blacks 2024:

Blunders is the best new poster in years.

Joined just after Foster left his AB coaching role. Suspicious.

Victor Meldrew

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 Hard to argue there.

Chuck Norris has nightmares about Ethan Blackadder

Imagine a Blackadder/ Charlie Ngatai midfield....

MN5

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2024:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024:

@MN5 Hard to argue there.

Chuck Norris has nightmares about Ethan Blackadder

Imagine a Blackadder/ Charlie Ngatai midfield....

I can picture the headlines now…..

All Blacks shock Boks 102-0 in RWC final

Canes4life

I'm not convinced that Papali'i is the answer at 7 either though. If I was Razor I wouldn't make any decisions until Super.

My preference would be to move Ardie back to 7 because we know what he can offer. I would then start a big physical player like Finau at 6, and then a skillful/sizeable player at 8, quite a few players coming through that fit the bill. I would then have Blackadder on the bench to cover all three back row postions.