All Blacks 2024
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@ACT-Crusader Happy New Year! I hope it's a great one for you and yours.
For the record, I didn't say I'd select Drummond for the ABs in 2024, I said 'how about this side?' 😉
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Just for completeness I add Paddy Tuipolutu (given he's back at the Blues) to the argument as a place holding lock while Holland and whoever develop physically.
So we have 4 locks with test experience to start with.
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@MajorRage He was never the same after having double hip surgery early in his career (after 2014 end of year tour?). Never had the same intensity.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@MajorRage He was never the same after having double hip surgery early in his career (after 2014 end of year tour?). Never had the same intensity.
Yeah I think we may have seen his best. And that best for me was when he came off the bench for the ABs and added some starch. Loved it back in the day when him and Faumauina would come on in the last quarter.
Injuries, up and down form, the emergence of Scooter, and his place in the side has been precarious.
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Former England forward reveals 'dream' All Blacks switch
Experienced forward, Brad Shields, who represented England in 2018 and 2019, could put himself in contention for the All Blacks this season.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@SBW1 don't think I saw him in NPC, so no idea how he's playing...but if he was back to his best in super rugby it wouldn't upset me.
He just needs to ditch the fish and chips get back onto the Paua Fritters
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
the midfield / fullback hoohah (@Punch_up remember Matt Burke from OZ played both centre
Kurtley Beale played all of the place as well. Can't remember him at 13 but pretty sure he had a go at 12 (that's centre to an Aussie, and midfield wherever you are from).
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@Snowy said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
the midfield / fullback hoohah (@Punch_up remember Matt Burke from OZ played both centre
Kurtley Beale played all of the place as well. Can't remember him at 13 but pretty sure he had a go at 12 (that's centre to an Aussie, and midfield wherever you are from).
Emile Ntamack debuted as a wing (then featured in the try from the end of the world as a wing), then played there in the 1995 WC.
By 1999, he was a midfielder. From memory, he was at 12 when they beat us and I think played there in the final.
I'm sure he also played at FB for the French team (confirmed here where they state he played all three positions - FB, wing, and center in one game).
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Another example: Mike Catt started at FB in the 1995 WC semifinal when he was posterized by Lomu, and started at 12 in a WC final against SA in 2007.
Fairly sure Australia might have had four fullbacks in the starting line up in Latham, Roff, Burke and Roger’s at one point
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The poor bastard. He makes one comment,.probably a throw away comment, and you lot spend spend days proving him wrong. I am starting to suspect Mrs Crazy has multiple accounts on here.
