All Blacks 2024
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@voodoo yep and I think when you look at that 1st 5 crisis thread, if you think we had Smith-DC-Nonu-Smith, 4 greats of our game together alot of the time, any that follow will always be poorer...I mean all 4 could have had a slightly off day and still as good as our current crops good day.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024:
@voodoo yep and I think when you look at that 1st 5 crisis thread, if you think we had Smith-DC-Nonu-Smith, 4 greats of our game together alot of the time, any that follow will always be poorer...I mean all 4 could have had a slightly off day and still as good as our current crops good day.
One of them could have stayed in the dressing room and the other 3 still be as good as the current lot...
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I wonder what Umaga, McDonald, Mauger, Dermody, Plumtree, might have done had they been lucky enough to have had Whitelock, Barrett, Taylor and Mo'unga at Super Rugby level...
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@voodoo said in All Blacks 2024:
I post this not as a criticism of where we are at now, but as a reminder of how good we were through that era. What a team
I remember our only complaint it was a bit boring around team naming , it picked itself
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@reprobate said in All Blacks 2024:
@Tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
Most people in NZ think that the bench is for a mix of injury cover and ball runners. Because ball runners have 'ímpact'
A very basic, and fundamental question he asked was: why couldn't the reserves come on before half time? Maybe you get 35 good minutes out of a prop? Why not do it in reverse?
I guess most people would say well what do you do if there's an injury just after half-time then?""
To which Rassie says Í'll just bring the other guys back on, nobody will even do anything if I just start running a rotating subs bench like it's basketballThey have been taking the piss with this carry on for years.
One of the locks in the second test came on and off 4 times if I recall correctly?
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks 2024:
@voodoo said in All Blacks 2024:
I post this not as a criticism of where we are at now, but as a reminder of how good we were through that era. What a team
I remember our only complaint it was a bit boring around team naming , it picked itself
And one of those losses was when the whole team had a dose of the trots in Twickenham.
They were all on the jacks for the week.