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Murray Mexted would be rolling in his grave at the sight of that loose forward line up.

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Where are all the leicester fainga'anuku critics now ? Could it be that he’s an improved player since his NH residency ? Certainly looks it to me . I'll put my hand up and say i'm still not sold. I've never had a issue with his go forward but with his distribution and defence. I'm still on the fenc...

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The ABs at their absolute peak used to regularly go north and go toe to toe with the opposition for 60 minutes, containing them, working them out and wearing them down before unleashing the impact and blowing them away in the fourth quarter, and that was against teams that were objectively worse th...

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MrB - you are your own worst enemy sometimes... I still support Razor, but that first hour was cack... Devlin is calling it the worst performance of Razor's reign.. The same Devlin who today conceded he was being hysterical post-game, and gave the AB's performance an overall B rating? Martin Devlin...

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The ABs at their absolute peak used to regularly go north and go toe to toe with the opposition for 60 minutes, containing them, working them out and wearing them down before unleashing the impact and blowing them away in the fourth quarter, and that was against teams that were objectively worse tha...

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Jesus Christ on a Roman cross, where do I even start with this? I mean, this opening — this so-called opening — it hits you like a wet sponge to the face. “The forest stretched endlessly, a wall of black pines clawing at the gray sky.” Oh, I see. Yep. Clawing. Gray sky. Oh, fantastic. I can literall...

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Roigard should’ve been the one carded for that outrageous hospital pass.

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Finally caught up on this match, based on the comments I expected the most atrocious performances ever but with no emotion in it and the ability to fast forward all the stoppages it was a really good match and a very impressive performance from the All Blacks. Apart from maybe hot and cold from Bea...

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Finally caught up on this match, based on the comments I expected the most atrocious performances ever but with no emotion in it and the ability to fast forward all the stoppages it was a really good match and a very impressive performance from the All Blacks. Apart from maybe hot and cold from Bea...

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Finally caught up on this match, based on the comments I expected the most atrocious performances ever but with no emotion in it and the ability to fast forward all the stoppages it was a really good match and a very impressive performance from the All Blacks. Apart from maybe hot and cold from Beau...

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Bro, the bush just went on forever, eh. Proper wall of black pines reachin’ up into that miserable grey sky. Vivus was sloggin’ through the mud, boots stickin’ every step. The river was way back now, and all them flash Roman roads were history. Just bush and more bloody bush ahead — wild as, ready t...

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I guess the England match puts the All Black’s last two performances in perspective.

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Basically the 2003 Blues team.

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What do you mean? I mean, given his selection record, he was always going to pull Caleb back into the team ahead of Leicester. Its how he treats his players with respect, so any "OMG he dropped Leicester" talk is bollocks. Caleb was in, he did well but got injured, so he gets another crack. Yep TED...

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JGP at his best definitely is. Is Clarke back in vogue? I'd have BB, although fading, JB and WJ as clearly better. Don't know Carter or Tupaea well enough to judge. You won't know TOB, I'm guessing. He's an excellent player who'd have a lot more caps but for injury after injury but because of all t...

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It's such a relief that none of the crybaby posters on this thread are anywhere near the AB selection table. Hysterically demanding that players who have never even played Super Rugby, like Pledger, are rushed into the AB's for a Grand Slam tour is just hilarious to watch. Are you that divorced fro...

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Either: The selectors are extremely conservative and fearful, or don’t have an eye for talent or don’t trust themselves to develop that talent.

OR: Our system just doesn’t produce potential world class young talent like (Carter, McCaw, Beauden etc.) anymore.

Either scenario is very concerning.

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The Blues ban applies to Darry I see.

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I’m sure unleashing thousands of cash strapped young men into a hopeless job market won’t have any unintended consequences for society, none at all.

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Something I liked was the low kicking game in the second half to keep them playing in their own half in the wet. The All Blacks were looking pretty poor until the head of god try but they adapted well to the change in conditions. Here’s hoping for rain on the EOYT.

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I think people should stop obsessing about the numbers on the jerseys of the backs. The number on the jerseys aren't going to correlate with where players are positioned at every facet. Keeping in mind that Jordie Barrett played at 14 in defense in Bledisloe 1, with Carter defending in the centre's...

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Weird All Blacks team, I got a bad feeling about this.

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He also has a hint of bogan about him and its important to reflect our diverse Kiwi communities. Carter looks farken good and should stay in the starting team as long as he’s unbroken physically or suffers a stupendous loss of form. His defence is excellent and he looks to be a very good finisher. ...

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I really wonder how much he benefited from the genius of Wayne Smith at the Chiefs. Didn't he win two titles with Smith assisting him? All the subsequent years without Smith they still made the playoffs and were competitive under Rennie but they lacked that winning edge they had in 2012 and 2013. W...

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Wear a skirt and seductively uncross and cross your legs during tense moments.

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You can think ruck speed is more important than back row balance, lineouts, post contact metres or dominant tackles amongst other metrics, but I think you might find you're in the minority there. This is false. I think ruck speed should be given more importance than it currently is. Do you grasp th...

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Write notes vigorously, furrow your brow when they ask questions, flip back through the pages of your notes and dramatically underline things at random.

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Papali’i is not the answer, most of all he doesn’t play for the Chiefs.

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I think All Black fans need to accept the new reality on this forum, that win or lose, as a collective we will be unhappy. How is this new? Name one season when most posters weren't whinging about something. One of the reasons the All Blacks have been so good over years is that across the country t...

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Sititi needs to be dropped. This year Sititi hasn't played anywhere near the level he did last year. However, that's understandable given the injuries he's had. I can't see this coaching team doing a U-turn and picking the number 8 that should have been picked last year. That boat has sailed. We’re...

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What might have happened in the first game if the Boks got more pay from their dominant scrum and their line out didn’t malfunction? Nothing went their way that game so they didn’t get going until 60 min. Had they played that way for 80 they would have won. There is some fanciful bullshit on the NZ...

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I thought the All Blacks were doing pretty well until about 35minute mark. Attacking lineout about 10m out from Boks line, lineout throw with no jumper straight to Boks. Possibly some darks arts from Boks to hold down our jumper. That would have been a critical point before halftime with the Boks do...

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19 all blacks missed tackles with the 4 outsiders being De Groot, Newell, Lomax and Hotham. At that point you'd have to say the team are mentally fragile. Actually good shout. Richie did pull off more than a few ripper try saving tackles with his good turn of pace. On occasion, he’s made good scram...

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You do know that SARU had to pay a lot of money to be part of the URC? They are now only full partners. So their strategy worked out? Good for them but don’t cry about it. We dont cry about it. Soup is dead to us. The cry come from NZ. You were the one that posted an article about the SARU presiden...

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But even then isn't that going to encourage top players to leave? At the moment only Mounga who would still be picked is overseas.. and he's coming back... so why encourage more top players to leave? I don't understand the thinking... as I said.. if we have players like Ardie, Jordan and Roigard go...

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https://www.planetrugby.com/news/south-africa-new-zealand-rugby-threw-saru-under-the-bus-says-president-mark-alexander Sounds like a way to sanitise SARU leaving Super Rugby for South African audiences. Super Rugby Trans Tasman was barely feasible as it was, even with two countries that were very m...

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He was the president. In business the CEO take that punishment for bad decisions. Vok, he could just made a phone call to his partner. Is that to difficult? How could it have been stopped? Robinson to re-open NZ and Australia airspace? Don't forget... no trans-Tasman competition had been set up at ...

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Crusaders fans, you know Razor as well as anyone. Can you see the direction/plan he is heading? How does this period with the All Blacks compare with his time with the Crusaders? Can you see Crusaders patterns emerging? Is he doing as best anyone could do in the circumstances (aside from the overse...

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Probably true, but national pride doesn't feed your family . Anyway, that ship has sailed, what can we do now? - Promote the game better at junior level to increase player numbers. - Decide once and for all between Super Rugby and NPC, we can't afford both. - Never make the ABs unavailable for our ...

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Crusaders fans, you know Razor as well as anyone. Can you see the direction/plan he is heading? How does this period with the All Blacks compare with his time with the Crusaders? Can you see Crusaders patterns emerging? Is he doing as best anyone could do in the circumstances (aside from the oversea...

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