All Blacks 2024 - selection
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@frugby said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@frugby said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
Locks, Lord is injured, Holland is unavailable, they don't rate the other options so therefore only picked three. Darry is there as cover, but only as the next best option because they have to have someone. If they rated him, he'd have been picked in the squad, because picking three locks is absolutely braindead.
I think what they’ve done there is perfectly understandable. If they rate Lord (which I think they do) then they won’t necessarily want to bring Darry in ‘officially’ yet.
Plus they have Finau in the squad who is more than capable of covering lock for in game options if required. Again with a smaller squad those calls have to be made.
In a 36 man squad they pick another prop, lock, loosie and 10/utility back
32 is an arbitrary number though... if they really rated him, they could have picked 33.
It’s not that arbitrary because it does have budget and other implications
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I've been watching random modern ish games from the last few years on youtube, fuck me it is so annoying the amount of possession we kick away for no reward in chips and kick passes. Yes they were great even further back in time, but every team has been ready for it since mid 2010s. STOP IT!
/rant
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@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
I've been watching random modern ish games from the last few years on youtube, fuck me it is so annoying the amount of possession we kick away for no reward in chips and kick passes. Yes they were great even further back in time, but every team has been ready for it since mid 2010s. STOP IT!
/rant
I’d avoid Luke MacAllister videos then…..
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@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
I've been watching random modern ish games from the last few years on youtube, fuck me it is so annoying the amount of possession we kick away for no reward in chips and kick passes. Yes they were great even further back in time, but every team has been ready for it since mid 2010s. STOP IT!
/rant
I'd like to see more of Jordie Barretts long kicks.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
have met three of my work deadlines today and yesterday, and then have one more on Tuesday
Please keep us further updated
Completed all deadlines successfully, had fight with Chair of the AB over one of the reports, can't wait to be able to get rid of her this time next year.
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Mounga finally talks about being an All Black again
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"With Luke Jacobson included as loose forward cover on the bench, Robertson indicated blindside contender Ethan Blackadder and wing Caleb Clarke are carrying niggly injuries."
Who was the original Food bill on the Fern? Was it Mark Ranby?
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"Ethan Blackadder and wing Caleb Clarke are carrying niggly injuries."
How many games before Blackadder's nickname becomes Niggles? -
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
"Ethan Blackadder and wing Caleb Clarke are carrying niggly injuries."
How many games before Blackadder's nickname becomes Niggles?Or crystal
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
"Ethan Blackadder and wing Caleb Clarke are carrying niggly injuries."
How many games before Blackadder's nickname becomes Niggles?Or crystal
Maverick?
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@pakman said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2024 - selection:
"Ethan Blackadder and wing Caleb Clarke are carrying niggly injuries."
How many games before Blackadder's nickname becomes Niggles?Or crystal
Maverick?
Balsa
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Oh leave poor Glassadder alone!