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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    #209

    In addition to the squad of 36, a small number of players from the All Blacks XV squad will travel to Japan with the All Blacks to help with their preparation and gain additional experience in the All Blacks environment, before joining up with the All Blacks XV squad to play Munster and Georgia in November.

    This will also allow a group of players from the All Blacks squad to travel to England two days earlier to focus on preparation for the Northern Tour test matches.

    https://www.allblacks.com/news/all-blacks-squad-named-for-2024-lipovitan-d-challenge-cup-and-northern-tour

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  • sparkyS Offline
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    #210

    No bolsters. No surprises.

    TJP very lucky to be there IMHO. Aumua and Havili lucky to be there too.. Disappointed for Lakai, Sotutu and Plummer.

    No arguments with the rest.

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    #211

    Small group likely to be a prop, hooker, lock, halfback and a first five I reckon... notice it says gain experience so focus might be on younger players.

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    #212

    Disappointed to not see a Lakai or Sotutu or Narawa in there. Or any bolter.

    A lot of players living a charmed life which historically is not the Allblack way.

    I think we lose to Ireland, England and France and Italy run us close.

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  • JKJ Offline
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    #213

    That team is boring as fuck

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    #214

    If I see Beauden Barrett picked at 15 again ahead of Love and Jordan after being selected as a 10, im going to punch walls.

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    #215

    Could have named this squad a week ago with some bracketed for injury.

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    #216

    How can you lose 3 games in the TRC and retain all the same players.

    Definition of insanity and all that....

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    #217

    No surprises. At least they picked Roigard.

    Of all of that, I think Telea is a living a charmed life, he's been terrible and Narawa was I think the player of the year for BOP? There isn't a way into the squad if you can be that bad and stick around with an ex AB from the environment playing that well at the next available level.

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    #218

    @Jet Because these days NZR are content to be 4th or 5th best in the world and to have people around who don't rock the boat.

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    @gt12 said in All Blacks EOYT:

    No surprises. At least they picked Roigard.

    Of all of that, I think Telea is a living a charmed life, he's been terrible and Narawa was I think the player of the year for BOP? There isn't a way into the squad if you can be that bad and stick around with an ex AB from the environment playing that well at the next available level.

    Rightly or wrongly there is a perception that the Allblacks is not a meritocracy anymore.

    There doesnt seem to be consequences for playing poorly or fucking off to Japan on a sabbatical.

    The jerseys are yours as long as you want them.

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    #220

    When I first read the squad a few posts above I thought it was a pisstake. Fucking disappointing to see the same old underperforming names.

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    #221

    Fuck's sake Razor, grow a pair.

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    #222

    Reece and Telea are like tugboats these days.
    Cane is a legend but needs to be wheeled into position like a siege canon before he can put a shoulder on.
    Beaudy is the saddest demise of a player I have ever witnessed.
    TJP is a non entity.

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    #223

    Dont forget Jordie will be hanging around to play for Leinster (when he is supposed to be resting) until into the new year, so he is going to be fucking shagged come next season.

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    #224

    @reprobate said in All Blacks EOYT:

    Fuck's sake Razor, grow a pair.

    Razor is everything I thought he wasnt going to be.

    Im baffled.

    New broom, same as the old broom.

    I really think he is starting to look like a spoofer.

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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    #225

    Robertson mentioned that Hotham is better off playing for the AB XV than just being a squaddie, and that applies to Lakai too.

    But if TJP continues to make the test 23 we know we're fucked.

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    #226

    Razor is just a poor mans Fozzie at this stage

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    #227

    In hindsight it should have been more obvious how conservative Razor is as a selector.

    He played big name Crusaders into the ground during his tenure.

    Of course no one minds when you are winning.

    When you aren't however......

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    #228

    At least he had the bollocks to drop Fihaki

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