All Blacks 2021
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@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
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@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
Hodgeman
T. Crusader
Laulala
A. Crusader
Tuipulotu
Papalii
T. Cane
IoaneYou got this @KiwiMurph
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@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
Hodgeman
T. Crusader
Laulala
A. Crusader
Tuipulotu
Papalii
T. Cane
IoaneYou got this @KiwiMurph
Tam Cane?
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Tam Cane?
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@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
Of those available in the squad, on the above basis:
DeGroot (just shades Karl on workrate but loses on scrummaging, so wouldn’t make my actual team)
Taylor
Ofa
Whitelock
Retallick
Blackadder (I actually think Robinson but he wasn’t picked)
Paps
Ioane (I think Sotutu is much more Zinzan than Buck, if that makes sense) -
@chris said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
It depends which forwards we pick......
In your opinion what is the most hard arsed take no shit 8 (plus bench)we can select.
Of those available in the squad, on the above basis:
DeGroot (just shades Karl on workrate but loses on scrummaging, so wouldn’t make my actual team)
Taylor
Ofa
Whitelock
Retallick
Blackadder (I actually think Robinson but he wasn’t picked)
Paps
Ioane (I think Sotutu is much more Zinzan than Buck, if that makes sense)@gt12 The elephant in the room....... the Crusaders loose forwards seemed to dominate against the Blues despite the Blues advantage at set piece.......
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@chris That's how I see our top starting forward pack right now. Could be a tweak in the loose forwards.
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So Keo in SA has written off the All Black forwards as "frail". Hate to say it but he does have a point (for once). Unless there are some serious improvements this year, this so-called frailty is going to be an obvious target for the opposition.
@old-samurai-jack said in All Blacks 2021:
So Keo in SA has written off the All Black forwards as "frail". Hate to say it but he does have a point (for once). Unless there are some serious improvements this year, this so-called frailty is going to be an obvious target for the opposition.
Was it Keo? Saw the headline and just didn't bother. Am now feeling justified.
Saw Jim Kayes tweet something about some bloke hardly any Kiwi had heard of. Keo's been around for years (been quiet recently ... is he making a comeback now they won something, are ranked No.1, and are unbeaten for nearly two years?), so if you haven't heard of him you haven't done your job, and if you have you know he's (politely) a provocateur.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2021:
@old-samurai-jack I agree our structure is easily read. Not sure changing players makes a difference.
I'm just furious that after all the talk about imposing ourselves, they coaches selected the team they did to be humiliated by Argentina.
In the last 3 years we have played like a team who thinks they can’t win a physical battle. Makes it easier to defend as you take out nearly half the field
@junior said in All Blacks 2021:
In the last 3 years we have played like a team who thinks they can’t win a physical battle.
Or in the case of the RWC2019 semi, we didn't pick arguably the most physical player we had..
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All Blacks coach Ian Foster outlined Retallick's progress since returning from Japan and explained the reasoning for leaving him out this week.
"He's nearly there," Foster said. "I've seen Finlay Christie get smacked out of a ruck and do a somersault and I chuckled and said 'welcome back Brodie' and that was a non-contact session. That means that Brodie is back, doesn't it? He's hungry, he's energetic, he's certainly refreshed, his body is feeling good."There is quite a significant adjustment to the intensity side. You've got to remember he's had two weeks in quarantine and then three weeks out of the rugby environment doing his own thing so some of the micro skill sets – the catch pass, the instinctiveness – is coming back so a week in the grandstand won't hurt him."
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All Blacks coach Ian Foster outlined Retallick's progress since returning from Japan and explained the reasoning for leaving him out this week.
"He's nearly there," Foster said. "I've seen Finlay Christie get smacked out of a ruck and do a somersault and I chuckled and said 'welcome back Brodie' and that was a non-contact session. That means that Brodie is back, doesn't it? He's hungry, he's energetic, he's certainly refreshed, his body is feeling good."There is quite a significant adjustment to the intensity side. You've got to remember he's had two weeks in quarantine and then three weeks out of the rugby environment doing his own thing so some of the micro skill sets – the catch pass, the instinctiveness – is coming back so a week in the grandstand won't hurt him."
@machpants Christie was probably mucking around at the back of the ruck.....
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@machpants Christie was probably mucking around at the back of the ruck.....
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks 2021:
@machpants Christie was probably mucking around at the back of the ruck.....
Yeah BBBR had about 5 mins to line him up
