The Silver Fern

@canefan said in All Blacks 2024:

Nov 23

Robertson to up ante on selecting overseas players for All Blacks

The All Blacks coach, reflecting on his first year in charge, said he will make a submission to the NZ Rugby board about changing the selection criteria.

I think I've been had. I'm already very bearish on next season if that's how he feels. Perhaps the SuperCoach should just select good players and coach, instead of fapping over guys that chose to leave?

Fuck no I am dead against picking overseas players.It will be the death nail of our competitions imo.
If players want to come back no problems but play in our competitions to be selected.
It sounds like Razor wants to keep Cane ffs.
Stupid idea Razor get your shit together and promote the players we have playing locally and players who return to play locally.

@Crazy-Horse
we can play 5 wingers in the QF though that is a bonus.

Great tactical coaching by Razor , change the point of attack multiple times,Read the blues line out.
Pleasing to see some ABs stand up who were selected .
But a worry some others did not stand up under pressure.
On to the test season,Heads up Blues supporters your team has come a long way and will only get better.
Now to get fucking pissed.

I seem to be missing something with Fifita,I must be falling asleep during games and missing all the great work he is getting through to keep him in the AB squad.

the right decision finally made
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/132413247/anton-lienertbrown-cited-for-red-card-threshold-offence-in-super-rugby-final

Absolutely Gutted losing Symo,I coached with him with the Qld u/19s squad for 3 seasons.
Great bloke sad sad day.He could tell a great tale the big fella.

This thread is really getting over the top some people need to go and grab their toys and jump back in their cots.
If anyone is lacking maturity it is the people posting the immature bleating posts.

@Tim

Good on NZR for standing up for the officials from some pathetic,Bitter twisted people we don’t need these sort of people involved in rugby setting kids a great example ,Do they do this shit at their kids games .
They make me sick the gutless fluffybunnies.

@Rapido said in India v Aus:

@Chris said in India v Aus:

Brain fade by Australia in dropping Travis Head plays spin better than most Aussie batsmen.
Hanscome a decent bat but not on the level Head has been at for the last 2 years.
Maybe they freaked out over the way they thought the pitch was being prepared and dropped a leftie but still over reacting before the pitch is fully prepared.

From what I have listened to, in podcasts for a few months, Head not likely to play in India, or not even tour , was forecast a long way out - so not freaking out about the specific pitch. Based on him being being poor v spin.

I've never watched him in Asia, so I have no opinion. I'm surprised though at your 100% different take.

He scored zilch in 5 tests last year in SL and Pak. So, that is what the decision is based on.

They have also lost Chris Green, though, since this planning - so going even deeper into their not-Head depth.

But, players can improve. This also used to be their selector's policy on Khawaja for a while.

Also, in the other column, Head went on to be the batsman of their summer, while this planning was presumably fermenting.

I am not sure about podcasts which I don't always listen to here in Australia because it is not always fact.
What I can tell you is When the Gabba test was on we get allocated a test player to come to the Queensland under 19 training,As we were preparing the team for the National championships in Adelaide we requested a batsmen for a Spin session we were running due to playing in Adelaide were spin is quite dominant.
Andrew McDonald came down with Travis Head who Andrew told us was the best player of Spin in the test squad.And he was excellent in helping develop plans to play spin in Adelaide.Worked well I must add as we made the Final but did lose the Final to NSW Metro.
Marnus and Uzzie came down being Qld boys and helped out as well, they also said Travis was the man for the spin sessions..
Travis Head coming from South Australia was bought up playing spin.
talking to the Qld bulls spinners Mitch etc they say he is one of the better players of Spin.
So I only know what I see and opinions of people in the Australian cricket system.Not so much what is said on podcasts.

England are very good side.

All the talk of Roigard I just hope he comes back well from that nasty injury, some players never come back the same they lose pace and flexibility from that injury or take a long time to reach their pre injury form.

The newbies look good
Hotham,Darry,Tosi,Sititi,Procter and Bell has been solid looks great for our depth going forward.

Yeah we are not going to lose the Bledisloe ,short memories the Aussies got pumped by SA at home 33-7 and 30-12 with 2 different teams the Saffers fielded then Aussies had 60 points put on them by the Argies.
We lost 2 close games v SA in SA and could have won both ,a few panic merchants on here .
we have blooded a lot of players and are nearly 4 years away from a WC and some people are saying we won't get out of our pool at the WC.
Calm done take a pill and sort your shit out.

First series defeat at home for India in 13 years
and history for our boys how good.

Big worry for me is Foster has no idea as an attack coach
We are floundering getting much gain at the advantage line and I dont see what we are trying to achieve with the ball in hand at times.

@steven-harris said in Blues vs Moana Pasifika 2022:

@chris the question i am asking myself at the minute , given what we saw with the All Blacks last yeat , has our forward play in all the NZ super teams dropped dramaticly since the South African teams have left super rugby …?.
It well be masking over the quality we are seeing

I am inclined to think our forward play has dropped off since SA teams are no longer in the comp.
They gave a point of difference in SR,Australia play similar to us so it’s same all the time.
Our SR teams don’t have the big hard SA packs to play against anymore.

Sure they didn’t always get the results but the SA teams many times had to go on 4 or 5 week tours to NZ and Australia which took it toll.
My opinion the SR comp is worse off without SA.

Ok I officially love Akira he has x Factor real teamwork there he could have scored himself.
I am converted.

@No-Quarter said in Drunk Marshall Abuses All Blacks:

What a dick lol, I half wish Akira had clocked him to teach him a lesson, but then we wouldn't have him for SA.

He may be a dick and drunk but at least someone who wore the Black jersey is giving it to the players for a few shit years of bringing the AB jersey down to the level it is now..There must be a lot of ex AB's upset at what is happening to the legacy they helped build.

Foster quotes from this week

“This is where you want to be in terms of the excitement,” he said. “We don’t want to lose a test, but we have, and to have a big game in front of us like this means the eyes go really quickly from looking back to forward. We’ve had some big days, but that’s the way it should be. The work that’s been done is fantastic.

**My Question MR Foster do you need to lose to get excited about fronting up in the Black jersey by losing the week before ?.
Is not pulling on that jersey enough to get the team excited.

“I can’t wait to play Ireland. We’re learning … well I think we already knew, but everyone else is learning that this is a high-quality team we’re playing. It’s a great examination for us. So we’ve got to show we’re smart and we’re learning as well.”

What have you learned in the last few years you have been involved not much that I can see.If you already knew it why did we play so. badly.
Just more BS Dribble with the same outcomes.

Crazy selection, if Retallick is injured and will miss some early games we are heading to the WC with 3 fit locks,5 LFs and 5 wingers .
Another injury away from big trouble.