All Blacks 2024

[booboo]

@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

Telea

Haven't watched last night's game yet and gave no idea how he went, but my gut feel is he's been quiet this year.

This must be a troll? He scored three trys and was his usual untackle-able self.

You talking last night? Sorry thought I made it clear I hadn't watched last night yet.

And it was my gut feel over the season perhaps influenced by high expectations. Certainly felt the Saders kept him under control.

I'd still pick him.

[Machpants]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@booboo said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

Telea

Haven't watched last night's game yet and gave no idea how he went, but my gut feel is he's been quiet this year.

This must be a troll? He scored three trys and was his usual untackle-able self.

You talking last night? Sorry thought I made it clear I hadn't watched last night yet.

And it was my gut feel over the season perhaps influenced by high expectations. Certainly felt the Saders kept him under control.

I'd still pick him.

Yeah he's been pretty anon this year so far Imo he's been awesome, those rankings look about right

6 Hoskins Sotutu
5 Mark Telea
3 Akira Ioane
3 Patrick Tuipulotu
3 Dalton Papalii
3 Sam Darry
3 Ofa Tu'ungafasi
2 Zarn Sullivan
2 Josh Beehre
1 Caleb Clarke
1 Laghlan McWhannell
1 Finlay Christie
1 Taufa Funaki

[KiwiMurph]

Interesting quote in Stuff today for the jump-to-conclusions crowd

Has Robertson reached out to his long-time Crusaders second-row linchpin with a plea to return? Absolutely not. Stuff has spoken to sources very close to the new All Blacks coach and they are adamant that this “simply never happened”.

[chchfanatic]

I didn’t realise the guy I was talking to was from stuff.

[george33]

Darry Right in the picture, should return after bye , the tap on the shoulder, just needs to stay fit

[MN5]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

I had Roigard, Ratima and TJ so far. Roigard was looking fucking brilliant, like Marshall but with a sweet pass. Gutted.

Time for Fakatava to sort his shit out.

So basically Byron Kelleher then

[Bones]

Mate who knows his stuff reckons Roigard is probably patella tendon and if it's a full rupture, then we've seen the best of Roigard already.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Machpants

From what I've seen hiss work-rate seems exceptionally high.

[Canes4life]

@Bones according to Laidlaw on the news apparently Roigard’s seeing a specialist on Wednesday so will know the full extent of the injury after that. I’d say he’s defs out for the Canes season but hopefully he can make a few AB appearances this year.

[Kirwan]

Gutting for Roigard, he was looking special.

[Crazy Horse]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

Mate who knows his stuff reckons Roigard is probably patella tendon and if it's a full rupture, then we've seen the best of Roigard already.

I hope this is not the case but it has definitely crossed my mind that he may not be the same again.

I am trying to think of other talents that were looking 'special' before injury curtailed them. The great MJ springs to mind but he reinvented himself and Jonah as well. It's incredible to think Jonah did what he did while he was sick.

Jason Goldsmith? I am sure there is someone I have forgotten.

[Duluth]

@Crazy-Horse Marshall was a different player after the achilles injury

[Canes4life]

[Frank]

@Canes4life
Update = I'll know on Tuesday.

[Bones]

@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Canes4life
Update = I'll know on Tuesday.

Thanks, saved time finding out about update = I'll update you on Tuesday!

[Bones]

@Crazy-Horse yeah reckons if it's only partial then with good rehab he can get back close to what he was.

[Crazy Horse]

@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Crazy-Horse Marshall was a different player after the achilles injury

Yeah he was too. Same with Kirwan.

[pakman]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:

@Crazy-Horse yeah reckons if it's only partial then with good rehab he can get back close to what he was.

Let’s all hope it isn’t career changing.

[Tim]

Just a little bit of analysis:

Our top four opponents are probably South Africa, France, Ireland, and England. Let's look at our records against them in the last World Cup cycle.

South Africa: 3-4
France: 0-2
Ireland: 2-3
England: 0-1-0

Where do we need to improve technical aspects or tactics against these larger forward pack teams? Ruck work, kicking game (exits ...), more modern defence?

[Bones]

@Tim handling skills and game plan. The last cycle was an absolute mish mash of game plans that didn't mix well ( and probably due to being) combined with awful handling. That's about it for me.

So maybe even just need one of those aspects to not be amateur to improve drastically.