All Blacks 2025
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three locks
three blindsides
three opensides
i assume Sititi will play 8
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No real arguments with anyone named, anyone who didn't think Christy wssn't getting named ,I suspect weren't really thinking. They not going into RC with only one halfback with test experience.
I was slightly surprised that Darry wasn't named, and with Parker there, is the Vai'i thing at 6 coming to end? -
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@Bovidae some head scratching decisions there.
Presently for me Fakatava is in the top three halfbacks in NZ. How Preston and Christie get ahead of him I can’t understand.
Lord is made from glass and needs game time. How he’s ahead of Darry just makes no sense to me.
I’m not opposed to Parker being in the mix. But no Papalii is just wild. He’s in my mind miles ahead of Jacobson or Kirifi.
Surprised Carter got in over JRK and frankly I’m not thrilled about it.
Mafelio is a truely baffling decision. Dyer, Ma’au and a few other props would have the inside running over him there from my perspective.
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@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Dalts dropped? Wild
How Jacobsen gets selected in squad after squad completely baffles me.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Dalts dropped? Wild
How Jacobsen gets selected in squad after squad completely baffles me.
He's the new Blackadder
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Counties?
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@Bovidae some head scratching decisions there.
Presently for me Fakatava is in the top three halfbacks in NZ. How Preston and Christie get ahead of him I can’t understand.
Lord is made from glass and needs game time. How he’s ahead of Darry just makes no sense to me.
I’m not opposed to Parker being in the mix. But no Papalii is just wild. He’s in my mind miles ahead of Jacobson or Kirifi.
Surprised Carter got in over JRK and frankly I’m not thrilled about it.
Mafelio is a truely baffling decision. Dyer, Ma’au and a few other props would have the inside running over him there from my perspective.
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2025:
Finlay Christie is like a cockroach, can't be killed.
This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.
I guess.
The selections are a bit wild. I do not understand not dropping people who are injured, to just name injury cover. I guess it is to preserve $$$ for incumbents, but just seems a bit 'in group'
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@handa457 Mafelio should be encouraged to head to another super team, no point having a potential All Black prop playing most weeks for the hurricane hunters
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2025:
Finlay Christie is like a cockroach, can't be killed.
This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.
I guess.
The selections are a bit wild. I do not understand not dropping people who are injured, to just name injury cover. I guess it is to preserve $$$ for incumbents, but just seems a bit 'in group'
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.
It has to be, he does nothing for our attack.
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How the fuck did combover win so many SR titles?
Four of the loose forwards are effectively carbon copies of each other.
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
How the fuck did combover win so many SR titles?
Four of the loose forwards are effectively carbon copies of each other.
Richie McCaw. Dan Carter.
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It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Ethan Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap?
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
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It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Ethan Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap?
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Todd Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap.
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
Todd Blackadder's selection would have been a serious shock
