All Blacks 2025
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@rewa267 said in All Blacks 2025:
6/10 for me this year. Best win of the season against SA. Worst defeat against. Ardie best player. Forwards good too great, backs average 2nd year in a row a backs coach has been replaced
Can see why we continue to struggle if that seagull is our best player.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
Can see why we continue to struggle if that seagull is our best player.
Ardie Seagull it is then. At least he has the potential to swoop in at the last minute and steal all the chips.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
Negatives (these are going to be longer):
We weren't convincing once. Our best performance all year was Perth and was a 7/10.
We've started an aging and poor First Five for most of the year.Ah Perth, where our midfield suddenly looked good for a week. Fuck knows what was different about that game eh.
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@Dan54 said in Wales v All Blacks:
I don't get the Christie hate we get on here, I think he is ok.
That alone disqualifies you from commenting Dan. He's garbage for all the reasons I've been laying out for years.
And that is a damning indictment on the coaches when Ratima is preferred over him. Just once I'd like to see a journalist ask why Fakatava is below them in the picking order.
ALB? Christie? Reece? Clearly their definition of impact is different from mine....
It is auite frustrating we haven't developed an understanding of using the bench as a means to lift tempo. Instead generally taking an old fashioned next man up. What if someone gets injured apporach.
It is nuts that we are picking guys like Reece, ALB, Christie etc as bench players. They are starters and starters only.
I'm really keen to see Super teams and the ABs take an approach to benches that it is about finiding a best fit to make a 30 minute difference.
Fakatava around the rucks, quick powerful loosies, potentially shorter locks who can act as a fourth loosie, nippy and explosive outside backs.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
No TSF thread is safe from pedantry
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Touche
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
Can see why we continue to struggle if that seagull is our best player.
Ardie Seagull it is then. At least he has the potential to swoop in at the last minute and steal all the chips.
I'll go with that.
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@rewa267 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet Jordan had great season individually and Roigards our most influential player but as a collective the backs never really functioned & the forwards were good as a unit but Ardie was the standout individual forward
The word we are missing is "cohesion"
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@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Over to you Mr Kirk.
Do what needs to be done, or are you a waste of a salary too?
What do you expect Kirk to do?
Hopefully he's not as emotional as all the menopausal women on here.
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@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Is this the most points the ABs ever conceded in a calendar year? I asked two AI units and they gave different answers ... so who knows.
I don't remember feeling this bad about our performance over a season since 1998....
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@Dan54 said in Wales v All Blacks:
I don't get the Christie hate we get on here, I think he is ok.
That alone disqualifies you from commenting Dan. He's garbage for all the reasons I've been laying out for years.
And that is a damning indictment on the coaches when Ratima is preferred over him. Just once I'd like to see a journalist ask why Fakatava is below them in the picking order.
Ok, so if I don't follow your thoughts, I not supposed to comment huh?
One way of being right on a forum I suppose, either agree with you or you are disqualified from making a comment. -
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@tubbyj said in All Blacks 2025:
Were you not saying on the other thread that people are not allowed to post what they heard from an old school mate of Reuben Love? Sounds like you are happy to have comments disqualified if you don't agree with them.
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@tubbyj said in All Blacks 2025:
Were you not saying on the other thread that people are not allowed to post what they heard from an old school mate of Reuben Love? Sounds like you are happy to have comments disqualified if you don't agree with them.
I stand to be corrected, but IIRC @Dan54 challenged the gossip and said something about the number of silly posts on the Fern in recent times. I don't recall him saying people are not allowed to post what they heard.
