Exodus 2017
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Why suddenly so worried about first-five eights? Only one AB 10/22 (Cruden) is leaving. Adding one to the AB squad, most likely Mo'unga (if he continues playing well), will be enough. And then just keeping an eye on the rest of the queue like they have always done. Nobody, except Ta$man and Sumo Stevenson, will miss Banks.
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@Stargazer said in Exodus 2017:
Why suddenly so worried about first-five eights?
Who's panicking? "We might be a little bit thin..."
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@Nepia said in Exodus 2017:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Exodus 2017:
I don't get the love for Banks. More importantly, as Nepia stated, he has silly hair. Must be some Jew in that boy.
Hey! There's some Jew in this boy! Grrr.
You post while fucking? Dedicated
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@Chris-B. said in Exodus 2017:
@Rancid-Schnitzel What, the love of being the fifth best first five?
Fifth? That Hebrew looking bugger?
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@mariner4life Any player who can score a try, swig a beer and kick a sideline conversion in quick succession deserves to be in All Blacks calculations in my books!
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aaaaaand new nicknames were born
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Probably won't be a popular view on here but this Whetu Douglas thing is why i don't like players like Leitch being long term players in NZ super rugby teams. In this case you could pretty much draw a direct line between Leitch being contracted and Douglas missing out and fucking off overseas. How he has played at the Crusaders is proof that some players just need an oportunity to go to the next level.
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@antipodean "That guy who reads the final copy, before it goes to print...why do we need him?"
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@pukunui Too many foreign tighthead props as well (to keep banging my drum). And we're basically contracting foreigners to use against one another, rather than the Aussies and Saffas.
I guess it's the way things have gone in the Northern Hemisphere, but I'd hate to see any more than we have now and would prefer to see less.
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@pukunui said in Exodus 2017:
Probably won't be a popular view on here but this Whetu Douglas thing is why i don't like players like Leitch being long term players in NZ super rugby teams. In this case you could pretty much draw a direct line between Leitch being contracted and Douglas missing out and fucking off overseas. How he has played at the Crusaders is proof that some players just need an oportunity to go to the next level.
I agree entirely
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Coltman
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@pukunui said in Exodus 2017:
Probably won't be a popular view on here but this Whetu Douglas thing is why i don't like players like Leitch being long term players in NZ super rugby teams. In this case you could pretty much draw a direct line between Leitch being contracted and Douglas missing out and fucking off overseas. How he has played at the Crusaders is proof that some players just need an oportunity to go to the next level.
Joe Tupe is another one who springs to my mind. He could have earned a Chiefs call instead of Leitch. I understand NH clubs' recruitment of foreign players in order to be competitive and earn trophies, but I can't understand why NZ federation's franchises paying foreign players when so many NZ players are available.
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I don't think a NZ-born Japanese player is any different to selecting Samoan/Fijian/Tongan/Australian players in your squad. None are eligible to play for NZ if that is your criteria for selection.
So either NZR says that all NZ Super rugby players have to be eligible to play for the ABs with no exceptions, or you allow 1 or 2 per squad, as is the rule currently.
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@Bovidae said in Exodus 2017:
I don't think a NZ-born Japanese player is any different to selecting Samoan/Fijian/Tongan/Australian players in your squad. None are eligible to play for NZ if that is your criteria for selection.
So either NZR says that all NZ Super rugby players have to be eligible to play for the ABs with no exceptions, or you allow 1 or 2 per squad, as is the rule currently.
I don't have a problem with Island and Japan players but I draw the line at Ockers - I'd rather Jonah Lowe (or some local Ta$man/Chch kid) be at the Crusaders (spit) than Digby Ioane.
