All Blacks 2025

[MN5]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:

@KiwiMurph Amazing that they want to persist with a player who is poor at the core roles - ball carrying, defence.

Yeah but he covers fullback and first five

[canefan]

I don't wish misfortune on anyone. But the only way Razor probably leaves DH out is if he gets a long term injury. Wallace is out hurt so he can reinstall his golden boy too. I think I'll temper my expectations for the year in light of those photos

[Mauss]

Anybody have a clue who these two guys are that Jordan's talking to? I have a hunch about both but that hunch just seems unlikely so maybe I'm just not seeing who they actually are.

[canefan]

@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:

Anybody have a clue who these two guys are that Jordan's talking to? I have a hunch about both but that hunch just seems unlikely so maybe I'm just not seeing who they actually are.

Two more visitors from Christchurch?

[frugby]

Unsure who those guys with Jordan are, but these camps almost always only involve players who were in squads in 2025 (generally guys who actually played) and don't tend to exclude anyone who was picked in the most recent squad.

I wouldn't read too much into who was there.

[Bones]

@Mauss figured the one on our right is Lord.

The other is time travelling Kieran Read.

[Mauss]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

The other is time travelling Kieran Read.

I thought he looked familiar!

[frugby]

@Bones The right one is Hotham

[Trig]

I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box

[Bones]

@frugby said in All Blacks 2025:

@Bones The right one is Hotham

Another strike against Jordan, he's a fucking midget.

[DaGrubster]

@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

@frugby said in All Blacks 2025:

@Bones The right one is Hotham

Another strike against Jordan, he's a fucking midget.

Hotham is listed at 1.81cm, so not quite 6ft

Must make Jordan about 4 ft 11 in that photo

[Mauss]

@Trig said in All Blacks 2025:

I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box

I guess this makes the most sense? The box-thing's a little weird, though.

[nostrildamus]

@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:

@Trig said in All Blacks 2025:

I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box

I guess this makes the most sense? The box-thing's a little weird, though.

too slim to be Lord?

[Mauss]

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:

too slim to be Lord?

Lord is in another photo, different shirt and different hair.

In another photo, Hotham can be seen wearing the hat and shirt-combo. Still a very strange picture, though. Probably just a confusing perspective through angle and focal length.

[Tim]

We desperately need some rugby.

[Mauss]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:

We desperately need some rugby.

What, you don't enjoy this particular circle of hell, where we endlessly analyze AB PR photos and make "Michael Manson bench"-jokes?

I think it's pretty neat, as far as eternal suffering goes.

[Machpants]

Seeing havili anywhere near anything involving the abs, is real suffering

[Dan54]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:

We desperately need some rugby.

Amen, we really struggling a bit at moment aren't we??

[Dan54]

@Trig said in All Blacks 2025:

I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box

Looks like the photographer may have been a dwarf , or someone kneeling down behind with the angle of photo .beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes: .

C'mon rugby, get started. I getting desperate, even looking working out how tall photographers are!!!!

[Landers92]

@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:

Anybody have a clue who these two guys are that Jordan's talking to? I have a hunch about both but that hunch just seems unlikely so maybe I'm just not seeing who they actually are.

Funnily enough, the one on the right is Noah Hotham. He’s wearing the same top and hat a in a separate photo if you scroll a few more times. My guess for the one on the left is Darry.

Hotham has to be standing on a chair or something. Well done to the photographer for keeping us on our toes.