All Blacks 2025
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@kpkanz said in All Blacks 2025:
It's more the circumstance of his specific skillset and playstyle at the 12 position may end up being the biggest bottleneck for the AB attack.
The problem is that no 12 has consistently performed to a high level
a. outside Christie and BB
b. with these coaches.Jordie has, overseas. What was Leicester doing so well with him that we can't?
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@SammyC said in All Blacks 2025:
Mackenzie was dropped for a reason last year, he's a selfish player who can't control a tight game.
BB should be dropped for multiple reasons this year, he's a scared player who can't control a tight game.
And DMac passes a lot for a so-called selfish player.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
look, we're all just shouting in to the void, none of us have any idea what is actually going on inside the camp.
You must be new here.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@SammyC said in All Blacks 2025:
Mackenzie was dropped for a reason last year, he's a selfish player who can't control a tight game.
BB should be dropped for multiple reasons this year, he's a scared player who can't control a tight game.
And DMac passes a lot for a so-called selfish player.
I'm convinced Barrett is only still playing because he's after that most caps record. He probably thought he'd be able to retire with the most tries too but Jordan will likely mess that one up for him.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean that Razor had a deadshit game plan and it was the senior players that saved it?
There's a snippet where Sam is doing the talking and Razor looks lost beside him.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean that Razor had a deadshit game plan and it was the senior players that saved it?
There's a snippet where Sam is doing the talking and Razor looks lost beside him.
How well would Robertson have done coaching another Super Rugby team without the talent the Crusaders system gave him access to?
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:
Because, if that really is the plan - to swan in play the RWC and fuck off - then he should have been told to fuck off.
And I say that as one of Richie's biggest fans on here.
He's 31 now turns 32 in May 2026, and will be 33 and a half during the 2027 RWC. but he would probably like to win one. Given his age I can't see him having much to offer after RWC even if available. Could play for Samoa or Tonga I guess.
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@ShaquilleOatmeal said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean that Razor had a deadshit game plan and it was the senior players that saved it?
There's a snippet where Sam is doing the talking and Razor looks lost beside him.
How well would Robertson have done coaching another Super Rugby team without the talent the Crusaders system gave him access to?
I'm beginning to think he had better assistant coaches than the other sides. Not now, though.
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@ShaquilleOatmeal said in All Blacks 2025:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@SammyC said in All Blacks 2025:
Mackenzie was dropped for a reason last year, he's a selfish player who can't control a tight game.
BB should be dropped for multiple reasons this year, he's a scared player who can't control a tight game.
And DMac passes a lot for a so-called selfish player.
I'm convinced Barrett is only still playing because he's after that most caps record. He probably thought he'd be able to retire with the most tries too but Jordan will likely mess that one up for him.
I think BB could get some good coin in Japan.
But our cupboard of experienced 10s that we can turn to is looking mighty bare 2 years out from the next RWC. -
Can we at least agree that DMac is too small to be put back at 15 against top sides?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Can we at least agree that DMac is too small to be put back at 15 against top sides?
Yeah, we can't have him competing with Kolbe in the air.
This discussion has been a bit odd, of all the ABs on the field on Saturday, DMac was the one who had me least worried about taking the high ball.
Dagg cursed Jordan by talking him up to attack RI a few weeks back and now he can't catch shit, and even worse can't score a try that is usually his bread and butter.
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Can we at least agree that DMac is too small to be put back at 15 against top sides?
Yeah, we can't have him competing with Kolbe in the air.
This discussion has been a bit odd, of all the ABs on the field on Saturday, DMac was the one who had me least worried about taking the high ball.
Dagg cursed Jordan by talking him up to attack RI a few weeks back and now he can't catch shit, and even worse can't score a try that is usually his bread and butter.
It's not just his height but his heft. Ability to stop big attackers close to the line. Heart of a lion but he just doesn't have the mass to be an international 15.
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@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Can we at least agree that DMac is too small to be put back at 15 against top sides?
Yeah, we can't have him competing with Kolbe in the air.
Kolbe is small but phenomenal in the air.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2025:
@restofit said in All Blacks 2025:
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2025:
I've felt Holland has been out of his depth ever since he automatically got the head coaching gig at the Canes, was even more baffled when Razor wanted him on his team.
Holland was assistant coach to Canterbury at the same time as Razor. Razor seems to be a relationship guy - he trusts people he has known for some time. It's great, but only if they are actually really good coaches.
Which Holland has proven he’s not.
Holland is the strike play coach, no? Out of all the coaches this year, he’s been earning his corn off first phase. Not a great deal he can do if the team can’t win good first phase ball. They did in the first test against Boks and they carved them open for 2 tries. That suggests some degree of good coaching, no?
Bryn Evans has been responsible for most of the All Blacks tries off set-piece this year, there was a recent article that detailed the difference Evans has made to the strike plays, which were a real weaknesses for us last year & Razor bringing in Evans is the best thing he's done all tenure - that wrap around try off the back of the scrum in Wellington was a play Evans used previously at the Hurricanes.
I am not sure about that Evans is in charge of the line outs and they have not been great.
Holland was also involved in that strike move as it was from a line out involving the backs..
And that is really the only strike move I have seen that has come off in the last 4 tests.Are you sure about that?
It’s a try Roigard has scored before for the Hurricanes, which blindside flanker Tupou Vaa’i noted after the match when he credited Evans as the mastermind behind the move.
“We honestly stole that from the Hurricanes eh,” Vaa’i said. “We saw it early on, actually here [in Wellington], against the Highlanders. They did that trick play around the front.
“Bryn is such a creative guy and we’ve been saying for years we need a lineout coach and he’s definitely bringing a different flavour to the lineouts and it’s obviously paying off.”
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@restofit said in All Blacks 2025:
“Bryn is such a creative guy and we’ve been saying for years we need a lineout coach and he’s definitely bringing a different flavour to the lineouts and it’s obviously paying off.”
Well its not paying off our line outs were a mess last test.
Yes if you hear Jordan speak he also credited Jason Holland with that move. -
I’m not sure why we are so wedded to the coaching team needing to be NZers, the Boks have Tony Brown and Jerry Flannery, other countries lean on Kiwi talent or overseas coaches - I feel like we are too closed shop.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Can we at least agree that DMac is too small to be put back at 15 against top sides?
Yeah, we can't have him competing with Kolbe in the air.
This discussion has been a bit odd, of all the ABs on the field on Saturday, DMac was the one who had me least worried about taking the high ball.
Dagg cursed Jordan by talking him up to attack RI a few weeks back and now he can't catch shit, and even worse can't score a try that is usually his bread and butter.
It's not just his height but his heft. Ability to stop big attackers close to the line. Heart of a lion but he just doesn't have the mass to be an international 15.
I'm not sure we pick our fullbacks based on their performance stopping players that other people should have already stopped. I've always preferred someone with the courage of DMac in defence rather than size and lacking that courage.
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@restofit said in All Blacks 2025:
“Bryn is such a creative guy and we’ve been saying for years we need a lineout coach and he’s definitely bringing a different flavour to the lineouts and it’s obviously paying off.”
that aged well
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