@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
The concern for me is Robertson built his team around Richie and Sam, so him chasing them and talking about relaxing the rules for overseas players makes me think he's just going to try and implement his Crusaders game plan at test level
Or it's about our shallow depth currently at 10 and at lock.
How about we wait and see how the ABs actually play before jumping to conclusions.
We haven't even heard Razor speak about the Whitelock piece yet.
I don't think our depth is as shallow as people are making out, especially at lock.
We haven't had a world class 10 in a long time, which is a big reason we have struggled of late. Relaxing rules so a bog-standard test 10 can still play for the ABs is absolutely bonkers and comes across as a bit desperate.
On lock there are stacks of names being bandied about that have the potential to fill the huge holes SW and Brodie leave. We also already have a world class lock in SB.
We just made the RWC final and should have won bar a couple of missed penalties. We now have a few players retiring, and the core of the team remaining, like all teams around the world. We don't need to panic and start relaxing rules or begging players in their twilight to come back. We should be looking at the talent we have available and developing that.
I completely agree with this though:
How about we wait and see how the ABs actually play before jumping to conclusions.
However I am far too impatient to wait for that