All Blacks vs England I
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs England I:
Pretty sure South Africa started naming a lot earlier.
Maybe wrong, but so do some of the 6N teams.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs England I:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs England I:
Pretty sure South Africa started naming a lot earlier.
Maybe wrong, but so do some of the 6N teams.
i was just on another forum and some of the english fans were very surprised it was so early....but also happy with the selections
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Chris i understand in house things will be named....this just seems early to offically name it
Yeah I am not sure why England released it early it does seem a bit early to put it out there.
It's become something of a thing in NH. Gatland seemed to start it. Boks sometimes do. England jumped on bandwagon this year.
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
@mariner4life Surprisingly, he's from Wellsford.
You can take the boy out of Wellsford, but...
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@antipodean Fin Baxter is a very handy LH. Coles has often struggled with short and capable LHs.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks vs England I:
Wingers don’t have to defend much so maybe they’ll call up Sotutu
but does his hairstyle look good on both sides of the ball?
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in All Blacks vs England I:
England reshuffle front row in team to face All Blacks
Steve Borthwick has named the England team that will look to tackle New Zealand in the opening Test of their July Series in Dunedin.
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Joe Marler (Harlequins, 94 caps) – vice-captain
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Jamie George (Saracens, 91 caps) – captain
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Will Stuart (Bath Rugby, 39 caps)
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Maro Itoje (Saracens, 82 caps) – vice-captain
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George Martin (Leicester Tigers, 13 caps)
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Chandler Cunningham-South (Harlequins, 5 caps)
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Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 36 caps)
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Ben Earl (Saracens, 31 caps) – vice-captain
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Alex Mitchell (Northampton Saints, 16 caps)
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Marcus Smith (Harlequins, 33 caps)
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Tommy Freeman (Northampton Saints, 9 caps)
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Ollie Lawrence (Bath Rugby, 25 caps)
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Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 63 caps) – vice-captain
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Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps)
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George Furbank (Northampton Saints, 10 caps)
Reserves
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Theo Dan (Saracens, 13 caps)
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Fin Baxter (Harlequins, uncapped)
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Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 113 caps)
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Alex Coles (Northampton Saints, 5 caps)
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Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 51 caps)
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Ben Spencer (Bath Rugby, 5 caps)
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Fin Smith (Northampton Saints, 3 caps)
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Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints, uncapped)
So many vice-captains
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@game_film said in All Blacks vs England I:
Pointless Itoje being a vice captain at this point. He’s obviously not the leadership type otherwise he’d have been Captain long ago. Nothing wrong with that.
He's becoming a different player under Borthwick. Much more mature.
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Really looking forward to watching this young gun Cunningham-South play at 6 for England.
Huge connection to NZ having played for Silverdale club, went to both Hamilton Boy's and Westlake Boy's.
Cunningham-South, who grew up in New Zealand, is a versatile forward who is comfortable in the second row, blindside flanker or number 8. He joined the London Irish Academy in February 2022. Chandler has played for North Harbour under-18s and trained with NZ Warriors in Rugby League. Chandler also had outings for Canterbury RFC under-19s and Lincoln University in Christchurch before heading over to the United Kingdom. -
No leaks on the team yet ?
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:
Really looking forward to watching this young gun Cunningham-South play at 6 for England.
Huge connection to NZ having played for Silverdale club, went to both Hamilton Boy's and Westlake Boy's.
Cunningham-South, who grew up in New Zealand, is a versatile forward who is comfortable in the second row, blindside flanker or number 8. He joined the London Irish Academy in February 2022. Chandler has played for North Harbour under-18s and trained with NZ Warriors in Rugby League. Chandler also had outings for Canterbury RFC under-19s and Lincoln University in Christchurch before heading over to the United Kingdom.Let's hope he has a mare.
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@darylmitchell said in All Blacks vs England I:
@sparky said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Chris That's a really good team.
forward pack is strong, the backline is really average.
best backline with the most potential we've put out for years IMO. Doesn't mean they're great yet but at least its clear what we're trying to do and there's some balance and pace
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Agreed. I'm as happy as I can be with that selection, including the bench. Front row is a concern but probably the best we can put out at the moment. Save perhaps Dan for George but then we would miss his leadership, so fair enough.
As good as it can be but will it be good enough? Difficult to say with NZ being something of an unknown quantity atm but I can't bring myself to see anything other than a 2-0 loss. I'll be happy though and count the tour a success if we put in two good performances and show some attacking intent and shape.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Bones said in All Blacks vs England I:
Finau better be fucking selected to start now that I've seen the who's at ten.
He needs to work on his venom which is something Blackadder has loads of apparently
Is his venom black?
