All Blacks 2024
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@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Sotutu showing his true colours with his instagram post. Suck up your non selection and be better.
. You’ve shown him he was right for not selecting you. Mentally weakCrazy that people are now to the point of defending the decision of not selecting Sotutu and one of their main things to back up their point is using his instagram caption after winning a final and his apparent ‘mentally weak’ mindset when the guy dominated other elite professional athletes all season long.
It’s a fucking instagram caption. For all we know he’s referring to the Blues being the ‘most hated’. Yikes. I can’t believe what I’m reading on all platforms. It’s clear as day he was robbed of a spot in the 32 selected.
Hope he somehow makes it into the Rugby Championship 36 and continues to absolutely kill it(if he’s given the chance).
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.
Assume that is when Bladder is actually playing?
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@Landers92 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Sotutu showing his true colours with his instagram post. Suck up your non selection and be better.
. You’ve shown him he was right for not selecting you. Mentally weakCrazy that people are now to the point of defending the decision of not selecting Sotutu and one of their main things to back up their point is using his instagram caption after winning a final and his apparent ‘mentally weak’ mindset when the guy dominated other elite professional athletes all season long.
It’s a fucking instagram caption. For all we know he’s referring to the Blues being the ‘most hated’. Yikes. I can’t believe what I’m reading on all platforms. It’s clear as day he was robbed on a spot in the 32 selected.
Hope he somehow makes it into the Rugby Championship 36 and continues to absolutely kill it(if he’s given the chance).
To me this explanation makes the most sense. Otherwise what is he trying to say? He's most hated? Just weird. It will only take one or two injuries and he's back in the squad, either at the RC or EOYT. If he's passed over in that eventuality we will know that the new mob are lying
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.
Assume that is when Bladder is actually playing?
He plays?
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.
Assume that is when Bladder is actually playing?
He plays?
Trains the house down. Apparently.
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Well he already accidentally selected Sititi instead of Sotutu, and now he has to act like it was his idea all along....
Could it in fact just be a typo or poor spelling? He spilt his coffee on his notebook?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Well he already accidentally selected Sititi instead of Sotutu, and now he has to act like it was his idea all along....
Could it in fact just be a typo or poor spelling? He spilt his coffee on his notebook?
Prolly cos some guy's uncle was trying to eavesdrop on selection at the cafe
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Well he already accidentally selected Sititi instead of Sotutu, and now he has to act like it was his idea all along....
Could it in fact just be a typo or poor spelling? He spilt his coffee on his notebook?
Only if Hoskins makes the RC squad and Sititi gets dropped
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Some reaction from Ratima and Sititi.
Rugby: Youngsters Wallace Sititi, Cortez Ratima reeling from shock All Blacks selection (without warning) | Newshub
Announced in alphabetical order, both the newcomers had to wait to learn of their promotions.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Scott Hansen comes across really well
Keep using him in the media please.
What did he say about Hoskins? I just missed that bit
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Scott Hansen comes across really well
Keep using him in the media please.
What did he say about Hoskins? I just missed that bit
Link below.
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Scott Hansen comes across really well
Keep using him in the media please.
What did he say about Hoskins? I just missed that bit
Basically that he just needs to continue to do what he's doing - that his game is improved but he just needs to keep at it - they recognise he has points of difference to his game that other loosies don't bring. That he has been given a lot of feedback and pretty adamant that he's very close.
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yes about 17 mins in, I could not hear any description of weakness.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Scott Hansen comes across really well
Keep using him in the media please.
What did he say about Hoskins? I just missed that bit
Basically that he just needs to continue to do what he's doing - that his game is improved but he just needs to keep at it - they recognise he has points of difference to his game that other loosies don't bring. That he has been given a lot of feedback and pretty adamant that he's very close.
What he's doing, being the best 8 in the country clearly isn't working, otherwise he'd be in the team and not the young impact player from the Chiefs.
Smells a bit PR speak to me.
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From Two Cents Rugby channel.
Hoskins scored way more tries and assists and good passing.
Sotutu is also better in turnovers.
Far less tackles than the others (though Jacobson shouldn't be in there because he was 7)Aligns with the comment on his work on both sides of the ball.
I think they think he shirks the defensive work.
According to this guy Blues made marginally less tackles than the Chiefs overall in the season. Can't vouch for his numbers.Blue line is tackles per game.(Sotutu lowest)
Orange line is missed tackles (Sotutu highest)
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Mr-Fish Hoskins Sotutu was in almost everyone else's squad. His stats this year were amazing and he has developed a real edge to his game. Opponents fear him.
Yes, it's ultimately Robertson's judgement that matters. But it doesn't sit easy to me that he has passed over an outstanding talent in great form from a rival province, then shown loyalty to his old chums from what has been a misfiring outfit this year.
When did Razor coach North Harbour?
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
And is involved in the game almost 100% more than Blackadder.
Assume that is when Bladder is actually playing?
He plays?
37 minutes of brilliant rugby every season. Apparently.
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That interview with Hansen confirms that:
- Hall really rates him, excellent.
- That these guys are going to give us platitudes and fuck all detail. The discussion of Sotutu and Hobbiton were incredibly light on detail and amounted to, keep playing well. Jeez. Illuminating.
I did like the discussion of how they rate athletes who can get low. And, I liked Hansen's attitude.
Let's hope they made the right choices - if they drop the game at Eden park an awful lot of heat will be coming.
