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Luxon is a bit of a moron isn’t he.

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All coaches have their selection quirks. Robertson is no different.

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More crusaders favouritism

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So it seems Argentina just need to beat the Boks by 8 or more It's not points diff, but rather head to head that is the tie breaker. Argentina are 5 points behind aren’t they? Don’t they need a BP and to win by 8? Argies need to win by 38 and a BP, they must deny the boks a BP in the process aswell...

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True Blue wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 7:45 pm So it seems Argentina just need to beat the Boks by 8 or more

It's not points diff, but rather head to head that is the tie breaker.

Argentina are 5 points behind aren’t they? Don’t they need a BP and to win by 8?

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Epic click bait that…

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Well, I know there’s a lot of negative sentiment, but I truly hope that Fihaki is able to finally recognise his god-given potential in a positive setting like the all blacks after the clear damage his development has suffered with the crusaders.

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I saw a post online by James McConie indicating he played well for the Barbarians vs Fiji. Anyone watch that game? So he played well against Fiji B? A team that won't even be super rugby level. Congrats to him I guess.... Fiji B probably tested the barbarians more than whatever that super rugby fin...

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I saw a post online by James McConie indicating he played well for the Barbarians vs Fiji. Anyone watch that game?

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:47 pm
Wilderbeast wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:19 pm Someone mentioned on here that Robertson didn’t like giving away jersey’s cheaply?
Not sure how this comment relates to Fihaki, given he's only been brought in as a training player?

He’s been called into the squad as injury cover. Not sure that’s the same thing.

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Someone mentioned on here that Robertson didn’t like giving away jersey’s cheaply?

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I’m not sold on DMac by any stretch but the pile on is pretty underserved imo. I think he has the potential to grow into a good, possibly great first five. He, like the rest of the team, are taking longer than we’d like to figure it all out. I'm with you. Would Razor keep picking him if he was that...

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Back then the EOYT was seen as the easiest part of the year where experimentation was expected. Robertson won’t have this luxury this year, not by a long way. In 2004, you may recall that there was the approaching shadow of the 2005 Lions Tour coming to NZ. And at the EOYT, the ABs coaches were und...

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Back then the EOYT was seen as the easiest part of the year where experimentation was expected. Robertson won’t have this luxury this year, not by a long way.

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I’m not sold on DMac by any stretch but the pile on is pretty underserved imo. I think he has the potential to grow into a good, possibly great first five. He, like the rest of the team, are taking longer than we’d like to figure it all out.

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Why did Hawkes bay go to 13 with one yellow card?

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grouch wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 2:34 am Can anyone explain the logic of Reese on the bench to me?

Robertson rates him. You put your best players on the bench.

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FujiKiwi wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:03 pm Why is our best fullback, Will Jordan, sidelined on the wing?
Razor’s clearly lost the plot.

He isn’t playing like our best fullback. He’ll get plenty of opportunity, and likely pretty soon.

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Lock the Bledisloe up, experiment later, works for me.

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 10:04 pm How's this possible? I'm watching the live stream... And they are saying team announcement in 27 minutes with a countdown clock. Have I been had?

It was named at 9am. Stuff has it up.

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They’re making sure cane gets his century

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Has anyone compared the 2023 exodus with 2019, 2015 and earlier? We always see players effectively retiring from all blacks selection after a rwc. Is this time worse? My gut says it’s the same and we’re not actually dealing with anything new here.

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But, as ever, in this thread I am interested who True Blue is going to put forward that would have meant we didn't cost ourselves major titles. This i a bad faith argument. It's not about guaranteeing that we will win more titles if overseas players were made eligible for selection. It's about whet...

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If you don't think your bench can play to the same level, why are you selecting them? I wonder if a fresh hooker and lock would have helped when we lost that final lineout. Which hooker should we have on the bench that would play as well as Taylor was playing? There isn’t one in nz. Expecting your ...

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Hate the guy.

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Exactly this. I wouldn’t expect this? Taylor was our best performing all black. If you don’t think your bench will play to the same level, does that mean you have a total lack of confidence in your players? I don’t think so… If you don't think your bench can play to the same level, why are you sele...

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Jason Ryan was asked about the use of the bench (or lack thereof) in the second test against the Boks, with Darry not getting on, Aumua only getting on as an HIA sub, and Newell getting about 4 minutes. I'm glad one of the journalists finally asked. His response: Codie Taylor was on fire, so why br...

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Jason Ryan was asked about the use of the bench (or lack thereof) in the second test against the Boks, with Darry not getting on, Aumua only getting on as an HIA sub, and Newell getting about 4 minutes. I'm glad one of the journalists finally asked. His response: Codie Taylor was on fire, so why br...

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Jason Ryan was asked about the use of the bench (or lack thereof) in the second test against the Boks, with Darry not getting on, Aumua only getting on as an HIA sub, and Newell getting about 4 minutes. I'm glad one of the journalists finally asked. His response: Codie Taylor was on fire, so why br...

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I actually support eligibility for super rugby players, all inclusive. With a bit of luck it would strengthen the competition, I don’t like the divide in quality between Aussie and nz teams. A draft system would also be interesting, but I can’t see the NZRU risking the next Dan Carter languishing in...

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Retallick and Smith are retired from international rugby. Shannon Frizzell is a problematic person many of us don't want to see play for the All Blacks. Anyway, we've been assured Ethan Blackadder is a once-in-a-generation talent, so we wouldn't have needed Frizzell anyway. So the only player relev...

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Surely BBBR and Aaron smith could’ve got sabbaticals if they wanted them. Legends of all blacks rugby, they’ve done the time. I think they made a deliberate decision to exit international rugby and changing the eligibility rules may not actually get them in the squad. I don’t mind the NZRU negotiati...

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BlueThunder wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 4:51 am 1.Williams
2.Taukei’aho
3.Lomax
4.Barrett
5.Darry
6.Vaa’i
7.Papali’i
8.Sotutu
9.Roigard
10.Plummer
11.Clarke
12.Barrett
13.Ioane
14.Lam
15.Jordan

16.Taylor
17.Tu’ungafasi
18.Newell
19.Tuipulotu
20.Savea
21.Ratima
22.Barrett
23.McKenzie

You lose all credibility with savea on the bench.

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Will be interesting to see which team is number 1 in all sports in Oceania Probably a toss up between the Aussie Cricket team and the All Blacks? The all blacks have significant international appeal but the cricket market is massive due to India. I don’t know if India cares much about the Aussie cr...

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He’s been amazing, I didn’t think a Crusader could perform so well in this day and age.

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So much talk about putting our best players on the bench. Who exactly are we agreeing should play 80, and why?

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All black brand probably lucky to be top 50 in all sporting teams? Compared to football, NFL, basketball etc.. Is there a list for all sports? Yes. Don't make top 50. Even Man Utd is only 13th. Dallas Cowboys 1st. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_the_most_valuable_sports_teams The lis...

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The unhinged hatred of Rieko in some quarters of the Fern outweighs the hatred of Cane. :lol: I saw it as Rieko charging out of the line You didn't watch it then... there was no charging by anyone... there was Cane thinking he had Kolisis covered.. and Rieko marking Eben... Rieko only went to tackl...

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Is a running, elusive fullback less desirable at All Black level than it was before ? It seems we go for guys who have played a lot of 10 and move them to the back so we can utilise their boots: Perofeta, McKenzie, Jordie (not a 10, but a reliable kicker), Beauden just off the top of my head. Will ...

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I confess I found out hard to feel sorry for Sotutu when in the aftermath.

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