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Can anyone tell me the strategic advantages of releasing your team sheet early in the week, especially when you make a lot of changes and have some fresh faces.

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Where's Keith quinn

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Slightly more confident after watching this Argentina side..

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Looped passes against a bok defense, what the helly? So whats the kiwi boardies general feeling on Razor if he loses tonight? Is he out the door? Is it based on performance, or black and white - win or lose? I don't think this game in and of itself will be the determining factor. It'll be the cumul...

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Looped passes against a bok defense, what the helly?

So whats the kiwi boardies general feeling on Razor if he loses tonight? Is he out the door? Is it based on performance, or black and white - win or lose?

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I agree, but Rassie is a deep thinker, an innovator and has done amazing things with the Boks. Don't underestimate how much thought he puts into his selections. I also think Robertson and Co expected a bomb squad, hence Holland on the bench, they wanted to finish with size. I think Holland is off t...

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You don’t win with ‘psychological weapons’ . Discipline and accuracy has been far more ‘relevancy’ to these Bok successes. I agree, but Rassie is a deep thinker, an innovator and has done amazing things with the Boks. Don't underestimate how much thought he puts into his selections. I also think Ro...

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For the last several games we’ve defused the bomb squad without much difficulty, that not the reason we lost . Frankly I’d like the ‘vaunted bomb squad’ push our bench front row around now . We've never beaten them when they've gone with the bomb squad though, its a psychological weapon. Whether we...

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Looking forward to this game, love the time. Great curtain raiser before the ABs v Boks

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What bigger games do you have in mind? RWC 1/4 RWC semi RWC Final Australia just won at Ellis Park for the first time in 63 years! They'd swap that for a RWC final before you could say he. You really think Rassie will turn up to WC 27 with the same tricks as 23? Surly by then he will have hookers f...

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Kinda failed in the RWC final also didn't it? It was the first half they did the damage. You have to think like Rassie, the All Blacks have never beaten a team with the vaunted 'bomb squad'. It's a psychological edge that can be used in a big game, I think hes not confident due to the slightly erra...

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Kinda failed in the RWC final also didn't it? It was the first half they did the damage. You have to think like Rassie, the All Blacks have never beaten a team with the vaunted 'bomb squad'. It's a psychological edge that can be used in a big game, I think hes not confident due to the slightly erra...

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I think Rassie is moving away from it. It's more his style to change when ideas get 'old'. I also think he hasn't got his player succession quite right but time will tell. he ia moving away from it because the 'bomb squad' has failed this year. Kinda failed in the RWC final also didn't it? It was t...

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Quite interesting theres no bomb squad, to me it sends the message that they're not confident. They want to.keep the bomb squad up their sleeve as an ace card. I don't buy it. At the start of the season, the Springboks circled the test match against the ABs at Eden Park on their calendars, like it ...

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Quite interesting theres no bomb squad, to me it sends the message that they're not confident. They want to.keep the bomb squad up their sleeve as an ace card.

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Whats the split?

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Seems a bit weird to wait for now to drop Reece. Huge game for Parker and Christie. Annoyed to have to keep waiting to see a Vaai-Sititi-Savea loose trio. Did they run Holland into the ground or is he just not ready for the Boks? I think the Holland issue is a combination of the two. In isolation h...

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All Blacks injury update: 🏥🚨 Timoci Tavatavanawai is the latest casualty and will be sidelined for 12 weeks. Patrick Tuipulotu, Cam Roigard, and Noah Hotham are expected to return in time for the Bledisloe. (At least game 2) Caleb Clarke and Luke Jacobson are targeting a comeback for Springboks Test...

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Two of those players are ordinary in the air. If we were to pick on aerial ability alone it would be 11 Clarke 14 J Barrett 15 B Barrett Not suggesting we do that as that would be sh1thouse on attack. We are kind of stuck because not a single back three candidate is good in all areas, except perhap...

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Right now our aerial recieve game is our kryptonite. The All Blacks were bad in the air late 2010s and then came along Dagg, Jane and Kahui, they became specialists at diffusing bombs and were even branded the bomb squad, our game turned around on the back of it. We need to find something similar, ...

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Right now our aerial recieve game is our kryptonite. The All Blacks were bad in the air late 2010s and then came along Dagg, Jane and Kahui, they became specialists at diffusing bombs and were even branded the bomb squad, our game turned around on the back of it. We need to find something similar, o...

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Aren't we supposed to be getting an update on Roigard about now?

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At the risk of repeating myself, we just have to accept the current crop isn't very good. Razor can't polish a turd. Compare this team to the one ten years ago. Would ANY player get in the starting 15? Perhaps Ardie but even that is a tough one because who would you drop for him. Kaino? Probably no...

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I dont know how you can look at this team irregardless of where you are from, and not see a very poorly coached team.

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Scott Barrett might be quiet but hes the type of captain who doesn't lead with his actions.

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Do you think Razor had them practicing kick recieve at all? Ive never seen an All Black side so poor in the air.

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I was there in 96 when they took it and I was there today when they took it, fukkers

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Watching the All Blacks lately has become like going to the dentist, just get this thing over quick with as little pain as possible. Why has our aerial kicking and receiving game become so poor? We've known this for a while now but it just seems to be getting worse and worse. We don't look like we h...

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When do we hear about Roigard

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Going wide waaay to early

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Boks needed this, team started to believe the arrogance of their supporters

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So pretty well as expected. No surprises at all. Yeah, back to conservative picks. I don't mind that in some respects, it's the first game of the TRC, but on the other hand I think we also need to continue down the path of finding out what the players, that are not viewed as ultra safe hands, can d...

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Did Robertson shed any light on Roigards injury, timeframe etc? I've seen nothing and can't find anything.

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The computer generated advertising hoarding in the background is horrible.

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Looking forward to Grandpa eating his words about Proctor, hes one of the shining lights in a dim looking future.

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Thought Ruben Love did the black jersey proud, all touches were class, impressed.

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Hope Hothams ok

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I'm losing trust in this coach, some of this is just crazy

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grievous wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:52 am
not_english wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:51 am Was the pass from Jordan to Reece earlier forward though?
yes, sky cam picked it up clearly.

Beautiful legal pas

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Tehui wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:34 am
kiwidutchie wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:36 am Worst kiwi performance tonight has been Grant Nisbett.
How a commentator can confuse Ardie Savea with Timoci Tavatavanawai is baffling.

He's been obviously confusing players for years, nothing new.

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