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    @nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

    @brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

    For what it's worth Proctor is ranked 10th for ball involvements this year (carry or pass or kick)

    217 Beauden Barrett
    210 Cortez Ratima
    191 Finlay Christie
    177 Cam Roigard
    159 Ardie Savea
    149 Damian Mckenzie
    144 Jordie Barrett
    128 Will Jordan
    86 Fabian Holland
    67 Billy Proctor

    Those are encouraging stats in that 2 of the 3 top 3 most involved players are reserve halfbacks. If Roigard was clear #1 on that list the ABs may well have only one loss. Now, imagine if there was a 13 heavily involved in attack, same thing applies.

    My overall point being, this team is not operating nesr it's ceiling.

    Well the attack and the defence were close to the worst in the comp based on the first 4 games so one would hope that it wasn't near the ceiling.

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    @brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

    @nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

    @brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

    For what it's worth Proctor is ranked 10th for ball involvements this year (carry or pass or kick)

    217 Beauden Barrett
    210 Cortez Ratima
    191 Finlay Christie
    177 Cam Roigard
    159 Ardie Savea
    149 Damian Mckenzie
    144 Jordie Barrett
    128 Will Jordan
    86 Fabian Holland
    67 Billy Proctor

    Those are encouraging stats in that 2 of the 3 top 3 most involved players are reserve halfbacks. If Roigard was clear #1 on that list the ABs may well have only one loss. Now, imagine if there was a 13 heavily involved in attack, same thing applies.

    My overall point being, this team is not operating nesr it's ceiling.

    Well the attack and the defence were close to the worst in the comp based on the first 4 games so one would hope that it wasn't near the ceiling.

    True, I I still think the defence is pretty poor and I'm not sure how easy it will be to improve. Attack wise though the team can definitely go up another couple of gears....

    The biggest discrepancy is the gap between involvements from Barrett and Proctor. One is overly involved, the other too peripheral.

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    @voodoo said in All Blacks 2025:

    @pakman said in All Blacks 2025:

    I’ve noticed that 85% of AB backline moves involve NOT passing to Proctor. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that on that basis he’s never going to be an attacking threat.
    Hell, in that case they might as well reinstate Rieko and benefit from his superior defence!

    it was the same when Rieko started, not sure people are only now seeing it

    Was the same with Snakey as well. Most of the play/touches came through Carter, Tana and Sivivatu.

    It was really only post 2007 that Conrad was a key facilitator.

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    Not scientific but I thought it would be fun to look at win rates and use those to make some decisions based on picking a team of winners ( assuming all available ). The winningest shall be captain and the second winningest shall be vice captain..

    84.6% Cam Roigard (13)
    82.1% Patrick Tuipulotu (55)
    81.8% Pasilio Tosi (11)
    77.9% Damian McKenzie (69)
    75% Peter Lakai (4)
    74.7% Scott Barrett (85) (Captain)
    74.3% Codie Taylor (102)
    72.8% Ardie Savea (102)
    73% Samisoni Taukei’aho (38)
    72.4% Fletcher Newell (30)
    71.4% Leicester Fainga’anuku (7)
    70.9% Rieko Ioane (86)
    70.7% Jordie Barrett (76) (Vice-Captain)
    69.6% George Bower (23)
    68.8% Cortez Ratima (17)
    68.4% Quinn Tupaea (20)
    68.2% Tupou Vaa’i (45)
    66.7% Tamaiti Williams (22)
    66.7% Will Jordan (49)
    66.7% Ruben Love (3)
    61.5% Wallace Sititi (14)
    50% Simon Parker (4)
    50% Leroy Carter (2)

    Potential replacements:

    83.3% Samipeni Finau
    78.6% Hoskins Sotutu
    75.7% Dalton Papali'i

    100% Ollie Norris
    75% Ethan De Groot
    75% Fabian Holland

    77.7% Billy Proctor
    100% Emoni Narawa
    75.9% Caleb Clarke
    80.1% Beauden Barrett

    The Winners Team

    1. Ollie Norris

    2. Codie Taylor

    3. Fletcher Newell

    4. Patrick Tuipulotu (vc)

    5. Fabian Holland

    6. Samepeni Finau

    7. Dalton Papali'i

    8. Hoskins Sotutu

    9. Cam Roigard (c)

    10. Damian McKenzie

    11. Caleb Clarke

    12. Leicester Fainga'anuku

    13. Billy Proctor

    14. Emoni Narawa

    15. Jordie Barrett

    Replacements
    16. Samisoni Tuakei'aho
    17. Ethan De Groot
    18. Pasilio Tosi
    19. Scott Barrett
    20. Ardie Savea
    21. Cortez Ratima
    22. Rieko Ioane
    23. Beauden Barrett

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    @brodean

    nice

    Winning breeds confidence, and confidence is the most variable factor in a sports team.
    Nothing like being in a team that's winning every time.

    Still got the stats. Can you give us the average of all those players you named.

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    @brodean You'd better have Wyatt Crockett as your coach.

    72 matches - 66 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses.

    Holds the world record for consecutive test victories with 32.

    I don't think he lost a test in which he was in the starting XV.

    Two of those six draws/losses were vs the BIL Lions and another loss was vs the Barbarians (non-test).

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    @Chris-B probably unlikely to afford his wages, being from Ta$man.

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    @Chris-B and one of the other losses was that thumping at Twickers when the English midfield of Barritt and Tuilagi ripped us a new one.

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    @ACT-Crusader Was that the one where apparently half the team was sick? An otherwise inexplicable thrashing?

    Wyatt's other loss was Oz in his last season - along with the two BIL matches.

    He'd got to some incredible proportion and 2017 spoiled it slightly.

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    @nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

    @brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

    @nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:

    @brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

    For what it's worth Proctor is ranked 10th for ball involvements this year (carry or pass or kick)

    217 Beauden Barrett
    210 Cortez Ratima
    191 Finlay Christie
    177 Cam Roigard
    159 Ardie Savea
    149 Damian Mckenzie
    144 Jordie Barrett
    128 Will Jordan
    86 Fabian Holland
    67 Billy Proctor

    Those are encouraging stats in that 2 of the 3 top 3 most involved players are reserve halfbacks. If Roigard was clear #1 on that list the ABs may well have only one loss. Now, imagine if there was a 13 heavily involved in attack, same thing applies.

    My overall point being, this team is not operating nesr it's ceiling.

    Well the attack and the defence were close to the worst in the comp based on the first 4 games so one would hope that it wasn't near the ceiling.

    True, I I still think the defence is pretty poor and I'm not sure how easy it will be to improve. Attack wise though the team can definitely go up another couple of gears....

    The biggest discrepancy is the gap between involvements from Barrett and Proctor. One is overly involved, the other too peripheral.

    Beaudy only passes to one of them.

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    @ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2025:

    @Chris-B and one of the other losses was that thumping at Twickers when the English midfield of Barritt and Tuilagi ripped us a new one.

    TBF the boys all had a serious virus.

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    @Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:

    @brodean You'd better have Wyatt Crockett as your coach.

    72 matches - 66 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses.

    Holds the world record for consecutive test victories with 32.

    I don't think he lost a test in which he was in the starting XV.

    Two of those six draws/losses were vs the BIL Lions and another loss was vs the Barbarians (non-test).

    Maybe Razor is cursed for dropping Crockett for that fnal.

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    Jeremy Paul is quite 'volatile', but his observations, from about 28:00 on, in respect of the 2025 AB squad are very insightful:

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    @Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

    @Chris-B probably unlikely to afford his wages, being from Ta$man.

    Possibly true - last I heard, Wyatt was turning himself into a sporting goods mogul.

    (He'd bought a sports shop in Nelson).

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    It just dawned on me that Razor is right now getting his international experience with the ABs, so by the time he moves on and starts coaching another side he will be a much better coach for it. Wish it was the other way around, but the ABs are his training ground right now and it's making a mess of our legacy. Losing Schmidt to Aus is such a massive fucking fumble from NZR.

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    Robinson's tenure has been one giant clusterfuck

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    @No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

    It just dawned on me that Razor is right now getting his international experience with the ABs, so by the time he moves on and starts coaching another side he will be a much better coach for it. Wish it was the other way around, but the ABs are his training ground right now and it's making a mess of our legacy. Losing Schmidt to Aus is such a massive fucking fumble from NZR.

    Which teams is Robertson going to win his two World Cup titles with? I can't see anyone half decent giving him a job if things continue with the All Blacks the way they've been going.

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    @ShaquilleOatmeal said in All Blacks 2025:

    @No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

    It just dawned on me that Razor is right now getting his international experience with the ABs, so by the time he moves on and starts coaching another side he will be a much better coach for it. Wish it was the other way around, but the ABs are his training ground right now and it's making a mess of our legacy. Losing Schmidt to Aus is such a massive fucking fumble from NZR.

    Which teams is Robertson going to win his two World Cup titles with? I can't see anyone half decent giving him a job if things continue with the All Blacks the way they've been going.

    The only countries that seem capable to win are SA, NZ, France, England. Ireland had a great team but are surrender monkeys at RWC time. Not sure Australia have the cattle, would take another perfect storm of generational players to do it. It would take a minor miracle for any of the rest to beat out one or two of the top 4 to win the title. Considering no one has actually done it, I think he's talking shit and the comment smacks of the naivety we are seeing with his ABs tenure right now

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    @ShaquilleOatmeal said in All Blacks 2025:

    @No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

    It just dawned on me that Razor is right now getting his international experience with the ABs, so by the time he moves on and starts coaching another side he will be a much better coach for it. Wish it was the other way around, but the ABs are his training ground right now and it's making a mess of our legacy. Losing Schmidt to Aus is such a massive fucking fumble from NZR.

    Which teams is Robertson going to win his two World Cup titles with? I can't see anyone half decent giving him a job if things continue with the All Blacks the way they've been going.

    Fair, I suspect he'll end up with a gig coaching a club team up north, and if he has any success with them would be able to make a case for taking on a Tier 1 nation. And by that stage you'd expect he would be a much better coach than he is now.

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    Was it GH that recommended he be let go to sow his wild coaching oats up north before coming home to coach the ABs?

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