All Blacks 2024
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I think Funaki's excellent play might mean he gets the 3rd AB halfback spot along with Perenara and Ratima.
I can't see Razor picking two rookie 9s in his first test squad
Christie or Fakatava will be in the squad.
I'm taking odds on Drummond.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I think Funaki's excellent play might mean he gets the 3rd AB halfback spot along with Perenara and Ratima.
I can't see Razor picking two rookie 9s in his first test squad
Christie or Fakatava will be in the squad.
I'm taking odds on Drummond.
Could make sense. Robertson knows Drummond's capabilities better than anyone....
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I think Funaki's excellent play might mean he gets the 3rd AB halfback spot along with Perenara and Ratima.
I can't see Razor picking two rookie 9s in his first test squad
Christie or Fakatava will be in the squad.
I'm taking odds on Drummond.
Could make sense. Robertson knows Drummond's capabilities better than anyone....
….and thats hopefully why he doesn’t pick him.
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@Victor-Meldrew the only way Drummond will be an AB this year is if the 8 or so halfbacks in front of him get injured.
There is going to be a huge uproar if Razor picks an AB squad full of guys with limited 'capabilities'.
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@Canes4life The reaction would be fun to watch though.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Victor-Meldrew
the only way Drummond will be an AB this year is if the 8 or so halfbacks in front of him get injured.Well, I was being ironic.....
There is going to be a huge uproar if Razor picks an AB squad full of guys with limited 'capabilities'.
.....Imagine a Drummond/Havili axis.....
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I want us to take a few fucking risks for once. At the selection table and on the field too
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Feet under the table first few Tests, then absolutely.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I want us to take a few fucking risks for once. At the selection table and on the field too
Yeah, if guys like Proctor, Ratima, Finau, any other lock than Vaai are ignored for "known quantities" that will be shithouse.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Canes4life The reaction would be fun to watch though.
It’s fun now.
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@gt12 And the side hasn't even been picked yet!
Imagine when guys like Ethan Christ, Cullen Grace, George Bell, David Havili etc are headlining the first AB squad for they year, it'll be like the fern version of the thriller in Manila.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@gt12 And the side hasn't even been picked yet!
Imagine when guys like Ethan Christ, Cullen Grace, George Bell, David Havili etc are headlining the first AB squad for the year, it'll be like the fern version of the thriller in Manila.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a really good shitfight.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@gt12 And the side hasn't even been picked yet!
Imagine when guys like Ethan Christ, Cullen Grace, George Bell, David Havili etc are headlining the first AB squad for the year, it'll be like the fern version of the thriller in Manila.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a really good shitfight.
Foster thread only got locked this year didn't it?
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@gt12 And the side hasn't even been picked yet!
Imagine when guys like Ethan Christ, Cullen Grace, George Bell, David Havili etc are headlining the first AB squad for the year, it'll be like the fern version of the thriller in Manila.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a really good shitfight.
Foster thread only got locked this year didn't it?
That was just an entree compared to test selections during Crusader-blacks or when the Cantabs packed a sad and supported Oz under Robbie Deans.
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I'll give Razor a pass if he's conservative in his first couple of squads.
It look Henry, Hansen and Smith the best part of a year to figure out their best team
The first couple of squads in 2004 had the likes of Xavier Rush and Jono Gibbes etc - excellent Super servants but not answers at test level over the long haul.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
.....Imagine a Drummond/Havili axis.....
@ACT-Crusader can give you the 2024 version of the ABs. The next player on the list is obviously McLeod.
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@KiwiMurph Yeah the start of every World Cup cycle has a few random players in there.
Even the last one had guys like Alex Hodgman, Peter Umaga-Jensen and Cullen Grace capped with guys like Du'Plessis Kirifi, Quentin Strange and Mitch Dunshea in the squad that season.
Fair to say that those last 3 mentioned probably would have been capped if it wasn't a covid disrupted year.
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@mariner4life Hopefully that's exactly the brief that Razor's been given. They don't expect him to select the same squad as Foster did last year or last year's Crusaders, they want him to pick the very best players for All Black Rugby going forwards.
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@Kiwidom said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@pakman they are playing Munster in November. Possibly Georgia as well
Real pity that XV couldn't play English dirt trackers:
This side would grow from such an encounter:
ENS(fullback)/Naholo(K)/Nareki/Rona(13)/Poihipi/Cameron/Ratima/Sititi/Jacobson/Lakai/McWhannell/Delany/Dyer/Thompson/Numia
And would have been a great help in selecting TRC squad.
