All Blacks 2024
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Blackadder in 45 minutes showed why he has the reputation but history says he will be broken in another 1.5 games.
Yeah they shipped 43 points because that guy was so good and didn't lock down any part of the defense.
South Island brain in full effect.
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Apart from dead set certainties, Lomax 3, Barrett 4, Ardie somewhere, would've been Roigard 9, Barrett 12, Ioane 13, either/both Reece/telea I'm really not sure. This is the biggest change in coaching group since Ted & Co set up the empire which crumbled under its own weight (obligatory foster is fat joke). It's quite exciting to have no idea what the starting 15/23 is, even if you could pick most of the extended squad.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Some people should just not post
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Some people should just not post
Drunk,My eyes hurt from reading that illinformed shit rant.Yeah that to.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I love that every comment about Blackadder is "what a great guy" etc, not has he ever played at any significant level for more than one game?
He was shit at test level.
NO THANKS.
Todd or Ethan ?
Probably applies equally to be fair
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
There's a lot of competition for wing but Naholo must be giving the selectors food for thought.
He looks pretty good.
However, I think Sevu Reece, Mark Telea, Caleb Clarke and possibly Emoni Narawa are probably ahead of him because they are playing well and are more experienced. -
@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
There's a lot of competition for wing but Naholo must be giving the selectors food for thought.
He looks pretty good.
However, I think Sevu Reece, Mark Telea, Caleb Clarke and possibly Emoni Narawa are probably ahead of him because they are playing well and are more experienced.Its the start of his 4 year term. Robertson should largely forget about experience. Just try to select players so he has quality players with the right balance
Reece, Telea and Narewa are one type of wing.
Clarke is a power wing who started off with a great game but hasn't done much since. Naholo is another power wing.
I prefer one of each (an often smaller skillful winger and bulkier power winger) . Naholo might offer more than Clarke.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Didn't really see the crusaders game, but before this weekend I'd have Bower and Numia fighting it out for form loose head.
Bower had a pretty good game again solid in the scrum put in some hard yards around the field once again, Numia was also strong again.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
South Island brain in full effect.
The drunken rants can occasionally be fun but is there a reason why someone who deletes posts because he's bored of other people's conversations is allowed to carry on and say dickhead shit like this?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Tim said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Roigard was a big loss
9 is arguably the most open position. Ironically, Roigard's injury has opened up opportunities and the competition for the slot and the likes of Fakatava, TJP and Ratima seem to have upped their game.
They were already playing well before he got injured.
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Things are looking good. The only downer is Silverlake. Thanks for the legacy NZR. Amateurs.
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
There's a lot of competition for wing but Naholo must be giving the selectors food for thought.
He looks pretty good.
However, I think Sevu Reece, Mark Telea, Caleb Clarke and possibly Emoni Narawa are probably ahead of him because they are playing well and are more experienced.Sure but things can change quickly - obviously injuries but Reece is rumoured to be off overseas - Narawa has played 1 test and Clarke needs to translate his improved form to big games.
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Like a couple of other positions, there are options but with little test experience, we can’t be sure of how they will perform at test level.
Of course if Ryan can get the forward pack humming (and no reason why he won’t) then it will make the outside backs look like a million bucks!
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Richard Knowler runs his eye over who’s in contention for the ABs at the link below.
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Of course if Ryan can get the forward pack humming (and no reason why he won’t)
Has a good base to work from and knows those players well. A few gaps at 4 & 5 and poss. some issues at 2 but you'd expect the forwards will continue their upward trajectory. Just hope he's not too conservative
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With the quality of the forward pack, hopefully the lack of experience at lock can be hidden this year for the most part.
