All Blacks 2024
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai
That lot aren't going to scare anyone. Doubt they would make any other tier 1 team.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to meI would rate Justin Sangster, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Zach Gallagher, Josh Beehre, over those locks.
Strange (especially - he's never been anything above average, even at Super level.)
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris Darry has had conversations with Razor I've been informed but injury won't help the situation
So has Zach Gallagher and Jamie Hannah, doesn't always mean selection now, maybe work on for future selection
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@ruggabee said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to meI would rate Justin Sangster, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Zach Gallagher, Josh Beehre, over those locks.
I still don't see a ready to go Test lock there yet.
I think the schedule this year is brutal both RC tests in SA, tough end of year tour, England at home.
Maybe the coaching staff see too many young locks being ground up in a bit of a meat grinder in that brutal schedule because they are not physically tough enough yet. -
Agree with others it's pretty concerning that Razor is focusing so much on players in the twilight of their career, even those already overseas. He's meant to be the young innovative coach that gets teams playing greater than the sum of their parts, Foster was meant to be the coach that couldn't move on from aging players. Suggests to me that Razor is worried about the big expectations on him (same as any AB coach) and so he is wanting some insurance from players that have been there before. His lack of international experience showing through perhaps.
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@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
This is what the thought process looks like "Crusaders aren't playing well in NZ, so better pick overseas Crusaders"
He does seem to be focusing on the ex-Crusader players
But he's also undermining super rugby. By emphasising and elevating what's missing. It's the last thing SRP needs now.
His bosses need to have a talk and tell him to get back and stop the bullshit.
I don't know. As a professional coach it's his job to win and if that means convincing some guys to come back to achieve that then so be it. It's not like other AB coaches in the past have not done the same. Wayne Smith went to France to lure SBW back if memory serves.
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You know I almost thought Razor would have registered enough credit in the bank (based off his resume & history of proven success at every level - when compared to Foster) so for people to question his decisions before the All Blacks have even played a single game yet seems odd to me. At least when Foster was appointed in 2020 most of us actually gave him a chance to prove us all wrong (based on results) in his first season - so we could then made a fair judgment of his decisions. Yet people on here are already spouting off on here with such conviction that this decision by Razor is objectively the wrong one when we haven't even seen the outcomes yet, lol.
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@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Windows97 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
> So the rules are all made up and don't really follow any rhyme or reason.
Which sums up NZR at the moment quite succiently.
Well it sums uo a forum, we don't really know what happened at negotiating times etc, but we can pretend.
See Perenara's and BB were actually quite different, BB had signed with NZR before he went to Japan, where as TJ was wondering about going to league.Well, the rules are ostensibly quite clear - it's just that players are now negotiating their way out of having to follow them.
Personally think evry rule should be reasonably flexible mate, well I think so anyway.
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If your spending time now on a player that isn't going to be there in 4 years time then all you are doing is wasting time you could have spent developing another player.
I think the rugby pubic would be more than understanding if we lose a few games but can see a clear developement pathway for new players.
Bringing back old war horses and loosing will not go down well.
I think Rassie said it right and it was something along the lines of "we'd love to have an 80% winning percentage, but in the years between the RWC you've got to select and take risks on young, new players". I presume so you can build the best team you can by the time the RWC rolls around.
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So watching rugby live is the only way to properly watch rugby and analyse it?
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@ruggabee said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
You know I almost thought Razor would have registered enough credit in the bank (based off his resume & history of proven success at every level - when compared to Foster) so for people to question his desisions before the All Blacks have even played a single game yet seems odd to me. At least when Foster was appointed in 2020 most of us actually gave him a chance to prove us all wrong (based on results) in his first season - so we could then made a fair judgment of his decisions. Yet people on here are already spouting off on here with such conviction that this decision by Razor is objectively the wrong one when we haven't even seen the outcomes yet, lol.
Yep well said.
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im determined to reserve judgement until i see the first squad and first result
the press is more likely to report on the contact with these old crusaders...and whilst im sure he is keeping tabs on them all....it doesn't mean he's not also in contact with all the young guys playing super rugby
Razor has always struck me as a hard worker so i wouldnt be surprised to hear there is a lot of stuff not being reported
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@taniwharugby No not the only way, but you do pick up a lot of stuff (especially off the ball activity/movement and positional play) that the camera's misses.
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@Windows97 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Bringing back old war horses and loosing will not go down well.
Yep SA was full of those in their last 2 WC winning squads not a heap of newbies,especially in the tight five.
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