@canefan said in All Blacks EOYT:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks EOYT:
@canefan said in All Blacks EOYT:
Flooding the field with greenhorns and debutantes does them no good, and is of little value in terms of accurately evaluating their potential value to the top team IMHO
Don't think people are talking about flooding the field. More about giving much more game time to greenhorns, trying new combinations and testing some promising debutants rather that sticking rigidly with players due to retire in the next 6-12 months.
I was referring to the Japan game. I don't see much use in sending on a bunch of young players and seeing our pattern go to shit (although admittedly we don't really have much pattern right now). Inserting guys into our A team combinations would have been more use, as we've discussed with regards to the last Bled match
Fair enough and I think we're saying pretty much the same thing. I'd still like to see some bolder selections and a few more newbies against the better sides though.
On the Japan game, assuming Roigard didn't get a niggle, it would have been way better to have kept him on longer and having Ratima on the bench rather than TJP.