All Blacks vs Ireland
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@Billy-Tell it should be a repeat of 2023 where the ABs dominate the scrum and lineout. Should tear that bench front row to pieces
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All Blacks match-day 23 (caps in brackets)
1. Tamaiti Williams (16)
2. Asafo Aumua (17)
3. Tyrel Lomax (41)
4. Scott Barrett (77) (Captain)
5. Tupou Vaa’i (35)
6. Wallace Sititi (7)
7. Sam Cane (102)
8. Ardie Savea (91) (Vice-Captain)
9. Cortez Ratima (9)
10. Damian McKenzie (58)
11. Caleb Clarke (26)
12. Jordie Barrett (66) (Vice-Captain)
13. Rieko Ioane (78)
14. Mark Tele’a (17)
15. Will Jordan (38)16. George Bell (2)
17. Ofa Tu’ungafasi (65)
18. Pasilio Tosi (5)
19. Patrick Tuipulotu (48)
20. Samipeni Finau (6)
21. Cam Roigard (7)
22. Anton Lienert-Brown (81)
23. Stephen Perofeta (6)
All Blacks team named to play Ireland in Dublin
All Blacks Head Coach Scott Robertson and his co-selectors, Assistant Coaches Scott Hansen, Jason Holland, Jason Ryan and Tamati Ellison, have named their All Blacks team to play Ireland at Aviva Stadium, Dublin.
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No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
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@Jailbreak7 Proctor went home for the birth of his child
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@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm not convinced Roigard is 100% match fit - took a while to get up to full speed when he came on against England Think they are being very careful with him.
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@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm a gazillion times more comfortable with Perofeta covering ten. Love hasn't played there in years has he? And he was pretty poor.
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@Billy-Tell 100% correct.
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@Jet said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
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@Kiwidom said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@KiwiMurph LOL , yeah am sure the allblacks are pretrified this week. Kearney is the same eijit who said before the quarter final last year not one single allblacks player was better than any Irish player
Why would the All Blacks be scared of a team that's never made it further than a WC quarter-final? Kearny is a moron.
I really hope the ABs pull out their performance of the year and put these guys in their place. The Irish fans on social media are even worse than the English, they believe their own hype and are still dining out on that test series win in New Zealand which now feels like a decade ago.
They have a selective morality too.....
No mention of breaking Retallicks eye socket, Aki concussing Tungafasi with a head high dangerous cleanout or Sean O Brien sparking Naholo out in the Lions tour with his Matfield esque padded forearm.
And they are just off the top of my head.They are a whinging bunch of Karmeichel Hunts.
They should tarmac the kip to make a car park for England.
The SOB incident ought to have been straight red.
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@JayCee said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Man, what did EDG do, or is he injured this time?
Edit: nope! "Unavailable due to injury: Codie Taylor (concussion), Beauden Barrett (concussion), Ethan Blackadder (calf), Luke Jacobson (fractured thumb) and Dalton Papali'i (upper hamstring) "
Odd that the three crocked loosies referred to despite not being in Dublin?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm not convinced Roigard is 100% match fit - took a while to get up to full speed when he came on against England Think they are being very careful with him.
Quite rightly.
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@JayCee said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Man, what did EDG do, or is he injured this time?
Edit: nope! "Unavailable due to injury: Codie Taylor (concussion), Beauden Barrett (concussion), Ethan Blackadder (calf), Luke Jacobson (fractured thumb) and Dalton Papali'i (upper hamstring) "
They should have sent him home, unless he is there for live scrummaging practice only.
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The AB's are in town with a lot of matches under their belt and improving every game. Ireland haven't played together since July, bench is weak and Furlong is a big loss. On the other hand, Ireland haven't lost at the Aviva since Feb '21 in a two point defeat to France.
Without Schmidt's influence, who was a big factor in the quarter final win, I feel this is a weaker side. Ireland are generally more cohesive. AB's have the better individual players and without doubt this is the game they will have targeted most in the november series. Lots of contradictions but it makes up for one very interesting game. Hopefully more entertaining than last week's which was pretty dire.
Edit: I also have tickets for this game so will be the first time ever seeing the haka in person and cannot bloody wait!
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