@ACT-Crusader said in Sevu Reece - in trouble again:
@Bones said in Sevu Reece - in trouble again:
No dickheads policy erased, starting with the coach.
Nah that went out the window when Adam Thomson kept getting selected….
whats the story here?
was he trouble? Cant say I recall him being a douchebag bar the John Cena celebration.
Imagine having a coconut that big and for it to be completely empty between your ears.
@No-Quarter said in Sevu Reece - in trouble again:
I mean we all know why he has been a lock in Razor's AB side despite awaiting sentencing. The All Blacks are a clown show right now.
"but he cares" and he loves his peppermint tea.
High performance environment my arse.
We are an un-meritocratic rabble from the top down.
@Billy-Tell said in Ireland v Wallabies:
Ref is good. He’s not bending to the Irish looking for foul play everywhere.
Biggest whingers in world rugby the last ten years.
@Machpants said in All Blacks 2024:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2024:
On the other hand he could have said "I'm going to develop a new team and try new things but there will be some bumps along the way, but bear with me" and he would have had an attentive audience.
Instead he says 'test rugby is all about experience', and once those experienced players have gone we're not going to have enough in the layer below. But no we can still use them as we'll pick overseas, and the layer below will get even weaker, and SR will fully die
And still he lost far too many and still playing the flat to the line and fling it wide shit that hasn't worked for years.
He is after getting the gig one World Cup cycle after he wanted/should have got it and probably has the hump that the toys he had at the Crusaders are not at his disposal any more.
Whitelock as captain and Mo'unga running the cutter.
@dogmeat said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2024:
After winning vs Oz, Oz, Japan, England and Ireland, the nay-sayers had somewhat quietened and there were even - god help us - a few vaguely positive comments. People "could see where Razor's taking the team".
So, the nay sayers should have been quietened by two wins, one very shaky, over a poor Wallabies side, a walkover against Japan, yet another close call versus a very limited Pomgolia and a decent showing up against an Ireland who are clearly in decline?
Pomgolia 
From the Gregor Paul article:
"Sometimes the skill is not knowing what to say, but when to say it and, by way of another example, having seen his team impacted by a series of decisions in Paris that wrongly penalised them at critical times and on four others, not give them what they had fairly won with their scrum dominance, something needed to be said publicly ahead of the Italy match.World Rugby went through their usual routine of apologising to the All Blacks after the game for the patently wrong decisions, admitting that the referee Nika Amashukeli horribly misread what was happening at scrum time.That still shouldn’t have stopped the All Blacks from wheeling out forwards coach Jason Ryan to make a few pointed remarks publicly to ensure that the pressure went on French referee Pierre Brousset who had charge of the game in Turin.There is a media game to be played, one that Robertson perhaps lacks trust or confidence to play. He seems overly wary about antagonising World Rugby by talking about failures in officiating publicly, but the best coaches know how to go through the appropriate channels privately and yet also make a few pointed and telling remarks in the press."
100% agree and it was not just Robertson guilty of it. This became really apparent to me in the Lions series in 2017 when Vunipola smashed Beaudy in the face when prone beside (not in) a ruck. When Sean O Brien knocked Naholo out. etc etc henceforth.
We have been turning the other cheek for too long and I still stand over the contention that Rassies Lions tour video and Owen Farrell tackle technique parody were strokes of genius.
14 yellow cards in our last 10 games.
This sport is fucked man.
@Bones said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2024:
@Nepia There's a man on a ten match winning streak!
I think he's intently looking at how Will Jordan holds the ball and deciding which midfielders he's going to replace him with at fullback.
Very tightly if in space with support, very loosely if getting tackled.
Couldn't resist.
JDS
Jordan Derangement Syndrome.
A hearty congratulations to Will Jordan for his man of the match against Italy and selection as the premier fullback in world rugbys team of the year.
Onya William.
I also think there is a tangible lack of nasty bastards in our team.
The Allblacks are just nice these days. They smell nice, they look nice, they play nice.
Its all very milquetoast.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024:
Context matters a bit too though.
Since the 2019 world cup we've played the South Africans 8 times in anger (I'm not counting the RWC warm up exhibition game)
And while the ledger reads 3-5 the points difference is zero (or maybe 1). And we've played them once at home, 4 times in south africa and 3 neutral. That's pretty good against this so called generational SA team.France we haven't played outside France since 2018. And I'll let you guess when the last time they beat us prior to that 2021 win.
We're very close to the equal of any side at the moment but we're just not quite getting over the line. There isn't a gulf to cross.
I would expect us to go close to 5-0 getting to play France and SA in NZ next year.
Im fond of you as a poster Mariner but I have to disagree.
Apathy is seeping in from the top down....from the stands to the board room to the pitch.
Valiant losers seems to be an acceptable visage for us to portray these days. It's simply unacceptable.
I think forums like this attract a certain demographic and maybe we as fans climbed our Everest in 2011 and 2015. Everything after that for us is a bonus.
But lets call a spade a spade.
We should be seething.
This is not the high performance unit that books and documentaries were based on.
Its a rogues gallery of old war horses over staying their welcomes, teachers pets and square pegs in round holes being led around by a vibes guy playing rag tag piano.
You give AJ Lam and Sean Stevenson (to pick two off the top of my head) to Andy Farrell or Joe Schmidt and watch what they could do with them.
We are trapped in amber.
Razor has it in him, but he needs to grow a pair of bollocks.
Winners fuck the prom queen.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024:
I was hoping that was just another sensational media headline
But no, that's the AB coach wanting players who left NZ, in black and white.
That's fucking disgraceful.
And more to the point.
The players who left, did so, knowing they would be ineligible for Allblack selection going forward.
They didnt want to put their shoulder to the Allblack wheel anymore.
Fuck them.
I dont want any of them back.
You're with us or you're against us.
Cam Roigard has outscored Rieko Ioane 7 tries to 3 since he made his debut and he was injured most of this year.
I dont think Razor brought through enough new talent considering he had 14 matches.
Too conservative at the selection table.
He made me double down on players I came into the season already sick of.
@kpkanz said in Italy v All Blacks:
Surely Beauden is never picked for the ABs again after this tour.
Reminiscent of Spencer at the end of 2004.
Only 4 tries off Howletts record now.
He could be the most capped and top try scoring Allblack of all-time if they keep picking him 
@kpkanz said in Italy v All Blacks:
Surely Beauden is never picked for the ABs again after this tour.
Reminiscent of Spencer at the end of 2004.
Im so annoyed about it all. He should have rode off into the sunset years ago.
Without his wheels he is a distinctly average rugby player.
@Jet said in Italy v All Blacks:
Beaudy kicks it away again, and even looked worse on spider cam.
Thats Beaudy's fault.
Its fucking unforgivable.
Beaudy kicks it away again, and even looked worse on spider cam.
@mikey07 said in Italy v All Blacks:
If this doesn’t scream I should’ve played the players that haven’t had minutes on this tour I don’t know what is.
I agree....and they could have kept the big guns on the bench in case it went to rat shit.
