Name Your AB Team
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@BerniesCorner said in Name Your AB Team:
Having Savea , Sotutu and Sititi competing for 8 is ludicrous.
No. It's fucking great.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
Can see TJP starting in 1st Test on experience.
Can see him putting in terrible kicks, mouthing off at the ref instead of clearing the ball, and just stinking up the place. He's shit at test level, and has had some really bad games for the Hurricanes recently. He was awful against the Chiefs. Missed a lot of tackles, and was very slow.
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@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
@Victor-Meldrew tough to figure out the logic on selecting a guy who's inexperienced at playing recently, let alone playing fullback at any level...over a guy who shines there right now.
Not what I want. What I think will happen - at least for first few Tests
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@Tim said in Name Your AB Team:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
Can see TJP starting in 1st Test on experience.
Can see him putting in terrible kicks, mouthing off at the ref instead of clearing the ball, and just stinking up the place. He's shit at test level, and has had some really bad games for the Hurricanes recently. He was awful against the Chiefs. Missed a lot of tackles, and was very slow.
Would like the dice rolled, but think caution will be the name of the game for Robertson's 1st few games. Be pissed off it we haven't settled the 9 slots by the RC.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
@Victor-Meldrew tough to figure out the logic on selecting a guy who's inexperienced at playing recently, let alone playing fullback at any level...over a guy who shines there right now.
Not what I want. What I think will happen - at least for first few Tests
Yeah and I'm saying that would be even more bizarre logic than the last coach. Havili has hardly played this season, so he's going to select him in a position I can't recall him playing in years at SR level, let alone test level?
Yeah nah.
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@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
Havili has hardly played this season, so he's going to select him in a position I can't recall him playing in years at SR level, let alone test level?
Are we at cross-purposes? I'm suggesting DH might be at 23 over Love.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
Havili has hardly played this season, so he's going to select him in a position I can't recall him playing in years at SR level, let alone test level?
Are we at cross-purposes? I'm suggesting DH might be at 23 over Love.
Still can't see the logic in selecting a 2nd five to cover fullback.
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@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
Havili has hardly played this season, so he's going to select him in a position I can't recall him playing in years at SR level, let alone test level?
Are we at cross-purposes? I'm suggesting DH might be at 23 over Love.
Still can't see the logic in selecting a 2nd five to cover fullback.
Think Robertson may see DH as a utility back who can cover 10, 12 & 15 at a pinch. He's clearly in his headlights for the squad with his playing at 10 in SR.
If he wants experience then it'd be ALB, at least.
Agreed.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Name Your AB Team:
@Bones said in Name Your AB Team:
Havili has hardly played this season, so he's going to select him in a position I can't recall him playing in years at SR level, let alone test level?
Are we at cross-purposes? I'm suggesting DH might be at 23 over Love.
Still can't see the logic in selecting a 2nd five to cover fullback.
Think Robertson may see DH as a utility back who can cover 10, 12 & 15 at a pinch. He's clearly in his headlights for the squad with his playing at 10 in SR.
If he wants experience then it'd be ALB, at least.
Agreed.
I would think he'd see Jordie as at least equally capable. If he doesn't, then he's a stubborn moron. Sounds familiar...
Oh wait I see where this is going...
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BA Baracus.
Oh wait. The AB team.
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Jesus, I find it disturbing the number of people picking Perenara in the side. It would be a terrible backward looking selection. He's just been comprehensively outplayed by Ratima in a knock-out game: a performance which would have looked far worse if he had been rightly carded during the match.
Do we really have to be so conservative? Haven't we just seen with Roigard that the correct approach is to pick the guy who plays better? Who happens to also be the guy with a ready-made combination with the presumptive 10? -
@reprobate said in Name Your AB Team:
Jesus, I find it disturbing the number of people picking Perenara in the side. It would be a terrible backward looking selection. He's just been comprehensively outplayed by Ratima in a knock-out game: a performance which would have looked far worse if he had been rightly carded during the match.
Do we really have to be so conservative? Haven't we just seen with Roigard that the correct approach is to pick the guy who plays better? Who happens to also be the guy with a ready-made combination with the presumptive 10?Just reiterating my comment from a month ago...
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
If Perenara is selected to start at 9, there's zero doubt in my mind that everyone on here will be complaining endlessly when he's inevitably giving the backline terrible service in July.
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@mariner4life I won't mind too much if it goes the other way - and by the end of the season it may. But, one of those guys went to the RWC and the other didn't and Jason Ryan helped pick both those teams.
More sneaky is that I'm picking Newell to start and Lomax on the bench. Tyrel looked short of a gallop to me on Saturday, while Fletch has smashed everyone in a vain effort.
As regards hobbits - I'm not unhappy that Taylor and Aumua are in cotton wool this weekend!
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@sparky said in Name Your AB Team:
@BerniesCorner Weird to think that at least one of Sotutu or Sititi won't be in the 23.
Unless you're planning on dropping Ardie, one of them (probably Sititi) won't even make the squad.
If they only pick five loosies, it's quite likely Sotutu doesn't make it either, because Ardie is locked in and Hoskins doesn't have the same utility value as others.
