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@antipodean Those options are possible. I'm saying just two things.
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They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
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There is nothing currently in the public record saying that Razor told Akira he wouldn't be picked.
Maybe the Ioane boys will write a book and all will be revealed - Cully after all wrote a whole book about what a fluffybunny Mitch was.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
Cully after all wrote a whole book about what a fluffybunny Mitch was
actually @Nepia ghost wrote that for him
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@antipodean Those options are possible. I'm saying just two things.
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
The same coaches busy advocating for NZR to get other players back..?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@antipodean Those options are possible. I'm saying just two things.
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
The same coaches busy advocating for NZR to get other players back..?
Hmmmm awkward
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
Poor Richie. Poor Shannon.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@antipodean Those options are possible. I'm saying just two things.
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
The same coaches busy advocating for NZR to get other players back..?
Clearly what's good for the Frizell is not good for the Ioane....
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All this lamenting over 2 players, when the most obvious issue is our gameplan and tactics, the way we been rolling it wouldn't matter who we picked.
Edit - also ignoring our inability to combat an aerial game.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
All this lamenting over 2 players, when the most obvious issue is our gameplan and tactics, the way we been rolling it wouldn't matter who we picked.
Good job pulling us out of that rabbit hole mate!
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
They picked Cane and Perenara.
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@frugby said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@canefan McLeod is 26, far from an old-timer (if this is what you are referring to). In theory, he could be the ideal back up to Jordie Barrett, so fair to persist with him.
Based off what? The only similarities they have is they are both tall and white
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@Landers92 McLeod is a good carrier, and his short kicing game has definitely improved.
His issue is outside of that he’s pretty much Jordie Barrett off TEMU as you insinuate.
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@frugby said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
His issue is outside of that he’s pretty much Jordie Barrett off TEMU as you insulate.
I never came across that option in the construction industry, but this is such a wonderful sentence!
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@frugby said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@Landers92 McLeod is a good carrier, and his short kicing game has definitely improved.
His issue is outside of that he’s pretty much Jordie Barrett off TEMU as you insulate.
So he's a poor man's JB?
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@ShaquilleOatmeal said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT Squads 2025:
- They were never going to pick him once he signed in Japan.
They picked Cane and Perenara.
Yes, but Cane is a 100 cap All Black captain and Perenara has been around for 10 years as an ever-present. In a team that had been badly shorn of experience. And TJ didn't announce he'd signed overseas until after the AB season had started and he'd been picked.
Akira had a chequered AB career and hadn't even made the team for RWC.
Is there not an obvious difference?
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Not when your argument is they were never going to pick players who were going overseas.
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