The Silver Fern

@Chris at least in 2023 Chiefs fans waited until after they lost the game to jump to the death threats. It's nice that they've retroactively justified the ban by threatening to use them as weapons on team officials

@tubbyj He got injured playing club footy a couple of months ago. From memory it was an ACL. Not 100% on that but I'm not expecting to see him this season.

@Crazy-Horse Sorry, you were spot on with the first part of your question so I just assumed that you knew and forgot to say yes lol

You should never feel regret for bringing up our beautiful balding savior. In fact, we should all start bringing up Bell more often.

@Chris the Crusaders losing White and Inch at the same time, when they only have two 10s and no other younger guys coming through, would be a total disaster

@nostrildamus there's no really any guys that fit the bill of being younger and also being in the right place to be ready for it. Taele has a ways to go, Higgins is injured, etc.

It's just a lot of guys in their late 20s or early 30s. McLeod is on the younger side of that range but played in the NPC Final, so is being rested. The only other thing you can do is shoe-horn a career outside centre in there but I fail to see the point of that.

@Grooter Every midfielder in the Canterbury squad has a full-time super contract, and two of them are former All Blacks, so it's just really hard to get the younger guys any minutes.

@KiwiMurph He's just working his way back from a health thing that is being kept private (i.e not an injury) but it sounds like it was really kicking his ass. He probably shouldn't be in the ABs selection frame until that's well and truly behind him.

@Bones Rumour has it he's getting cleaned up for his Monkley Medal award ceremony in about 3 months.

@hikastags yeah, he suffered a serious knee injury during their shield challenge against Southland. Haven't heard any time frames for it, like we have with Grace's knee, so I'm going to hope and pray he's good to go for Super.

@Chris he almost had to be the last name but thank god it's confirmed