All Blacks 2026
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I hope the rumours are true.
The final straw for me was the end of year tour when they didn't pick a single new player in the squad.
Reece, Leinert-Brown, Christie, Jacobson and others were a complete waste of time. The public would a accept the losses if you were picking and developing young guys.
I've posted on here before (usually some dickhead calls me out about not posting my source) that it's pretty common knowledge that Razor has no interest in building depth past the next world cup.
He’s all about his own legacy and wants to win the world cup with NZ and then go and win it with England or
someone else. Becoming the first coach to win it with 2 different countries.He's obviously got some metric where you need "x number of experienced test players do it"
The problem with that is that those players should actually deserve their place, not just be there because experience.
I would have picked Pledger, Tangitau and Lucas Casey in the squad... all look like future greats to me.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
A bad culture, players thinking they are bigger than the team… only one person for the job.
IT’S HAMMER TIME!
Actually Nonu might make a useful assistant coach, what is he doing?
Still playing for Toulon.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2026:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
A bad culture, players thinking they are bigger than the team… only one person for the job.
IT’S HAMMER TIME!
Actually Nonu might make a useful assistant coach, what is he doing?
More than Piri.
Doing choice Manus off the pier in Eastbourne takes up a lot of time.
Poor old Razor, under the pump like this and we’re only half way through January. What a difference a couple of years makes……where are all his gushy, matey docos now ?
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@mohikamo said in All Blacks 2026:
@junior
told they are goooorn
yeah feels like they are trying to get the alternates lined up.
Joseph/brown would be my most favoured option right now if they are going for a full clear out
Heaps of OE
Joseph definitely not a huggy.brown and razor will cost them; but maybe not the rest so much.
I find JJ somewhat hard to judge, as experience seems to me to have been more in taking lesser teams to play above themselves, rather than maintaining excellence and consistency. Nevertheless he speaks plainly and well, and makes sense when he talks - which is a big improvement in itself.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
A bad culture, players thinking they are bigger than the team… only one person for the job.
IT’S HAMMER TIME!
Actually Nonu might make a useful assistant coach, what is he doing?
Coach? Pffft...get him back in the 12 jersey.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
A bad culture, players thinking they are bigger than the team… only one person for the job.
IT’S HAMMER TIME!
Actually Nonu might make a useful assistant coach, what is he doing?
Coach? Pffft...get him back in the 12 jersey.
Given he appears to have freakish longevity, an incredible legacy and some underwhelming alternatives I fully support this
Jordie can go to fullback or join the rest of his brothers out to pasture.
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@His-Bobness said in All Blacks 2026:
But the real reason to clear out the coaches are the multiplying signs of real dysfunction in the coaching and management and selection set-up.
I hate it when people make my point better than I do ...
Considered writing for a living Bob?
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Some fuel from a week or so ago adding to the Ardie isn't getting on with the coaches narrative.
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2026:
@Bones haha love your work.
I think Razor was always up against it , no matter how well he did. The nth island journos hammer him on everything. Which is par for the course and something I’m sure he expected.
I believe (don’t know) that he never got the coaching group he wanted at the start. He put forward the group that NZ rugby would want to see , to win the job. If you know what I’m trying to say. I think we may see ROG or Andrew Goodman at some stage.
I think he thought his theming and culture from the crusaders would work and it hasn’t. From what I’ve heard Ardie has been quite hard to deal with.
Did the All Blacks actually have that bad a year.?
Yes the loss to Pumas was embarrassing and shouldn’t happen , but they also beat Aussie and were very close against SA
SA are an absolute beast at the moment, potentially one of the greatest teams ever. We beat them in Auckland and got destroyed the week after.
Everyone forgets we were missing some of our stars for the EOYT and Jordie got injured as well. Cant imagine losing Holland just before kickoff helped either. A terrible Codie Taylor YC changed all momentum in that game.I personally don’t care about rugby like I used to. Whatever it is , the product is not what it used to be. I thought Super and NPC were great last year. Always good when your teams win the championships though.
But international rugby is so over officiated. I used to get up and watch the games live. Now I just watch recorded when i wake up.
Whatever the warriors and NRL have done is working. But rugby people will never accept that.
These are just my thoughts and I’m slightly hungover so not my best work. Happy new year to everyone on here. Let’s hope Razor has a better year. -
Just going back a few hundred posts am not sure we ever sorted out who the hell Sam Casey is.
I understand he is some sort of journalist. Who does he work for? Where were his rumours shared? Is it on line? Is there a link?
@george33 or anyone else any assistance would be appreciated.
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Radio producer (Sport Nation) who is fairly tight with some current players - however his mail has not always been bang on
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2026:
Just going back a few hundred posts am not sure we ever sorted out who the hell Sam Casey is.
I understand he is some sort of journalist. Who does he work for? Where were his rumours shared? Is it on line? Is there a link?
@george33 or anyone else any assistance would be appreciated.
Brief overview of the history of Sam Casey.
Casey started out his public career with a Facebook page called Dunedin Club rugby. He wrote pieces on fhe happenings down there. The characters etc.
Then got a bit of a side gig witn the Landers during 2014 - 2016 doing Phil Gould like match previews.
Landed himself a gig with NZME producing the Farming Show/Country.
Was the lad who was pissed up with Jordie Barrett in Dunedin when they ate maccas at 4 AM in the wrong flat and scared the shit out of some female students who lived there.
Was really growing his rugby contacts throuought the period. Especially as he was their age and connected well with players.
Got poached by SENZ off NZME. Just before he started with SENZ he penned a column basically saying NZR spent way too much money on women's rugby and it brings in nothing. This was around Covid times. Alice Soper and others of her ilk came after him big time. Then boom. His media career was stopped in his tracks. That was about 2020 or 2021.
Then last year he popped back in the job he was meant to have gotten at that time. Seems his contacts and confidence remain as they were prior to getting a swipe around the ears for saying the quiet thing outloud.
Basically, well enough connected, very vocal, sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
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@reprobate said in All Blacks 2026:
@mohikamo said in All Blacks 2026:
@junior
told they are goooorn
yeah feels like they are trying to get the alternates lined up.
Joseph/brown would be my most favoured option right now if they are going for a full clear out
Heaps of OE
Joseph definitely not a huggy.brown and razor will cost them; but maybe not the rest so much.
I find JJ somewhat hard to judge, as experience seems to me to have been more in taking lesser teams to play above themselves.....
some would say thats what the AB's need at the moment
I assume the Highlanders will get razor in return for fucking our season?
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@SouthernMann @zedsdeadbaby
Thanks gents.So am J correct in rhinking the rumours he shared were on air? Is there a recording? Link?
Cheers
