All Blacks 2025

[Mauss]

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:

too slim to be Lord?

Lord is in another photo, different shirt and different hair.

In another photo, Hotham can be seen wearing the hat and shirt-combo. Still a very strange picture, though. Probably just a confusing perspective through angle and focal length.

[Tim]

We desperately need some rugby.

[Mauss]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:

We desperately need some rugby.

What, you don't enjoy this particular circle of hell, where we endlessly analyze AB PR photos and make "Michael Manson bench"-jokes?

I think it's pretty neat, as far as eternal suffering goes.

[Machpants]

Seeing havili anywhere near anything involving the abs, is real suffering

[Dan54]

@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:

We desperately need some rugby.

Amen, we really struggling a bit at moment aren't we??

[Dan54]

@Trig said in All Blacks 2025:

I had thought that it was Sam Darry left and Noah Hotham standing on a box

Looks like the photographer may have been a dwarf , or someone kneeling down behind with the angle of photo .beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes: .

C'mon rugby, get started. I getting desperate, even looking working out how tall photographers are!!!!:anxious_face_with_sweat:

[Landers92]

@Mauss said in All Blacks 2025:

Anybody have a clue who these two guys are that Jordan's talking to? I have a hunch about both but that hunch just seems unlikely so maybe I'm just not seeing who they actually are.

Funnily enough, the one on the right is Noah Hotham. He’s wearing the same top and hat a in a separate photo if you scroll a few more times. My guess for the one on the left is Darry.

Hotham has to be standing on a chair or something. Well done to the photographer for keeping us on our toes.

[Bovidae]

I wonder if Narawa was there?

[MN5]

How bout Sevu Reece ? I’d love a chance to make a new joke for 2025

[nostrildamus]

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:

How bout Sevu Reece ? I’d love a chance to make a new joke for 2025

He was too slow to arrive in time for a photo?

[MN5]

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:

How bout Sevu Reece ? I’d love a chance to make a new joke for 2025

He was too slow to arrive in time for a photo?

@Virgil early nomination for a 2025 award

Not that you’ve done a thing for the 2024 awards, clearly still on leave

[Nepia]

Richie says no:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/22/exclusive-blow-for-all-blacks-as-mounga-decides-to-stay-in-japan/

[canefan]

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:

Richie says no:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/22/exclusive-blow-for-all-blacks-as-mounga-decides-to-stay-in-japan/

Hopefully this will put an end to Razor's unseemly man love for RM and his homecoming dreams

[mariner4life]

put your surfboards out for sad razor

[mariner4life]

what's awesome is that this guarantees Beauden Barrett the 10 jersey for 3 years

wait, awesome isn't the word i am looking for

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:

put your surfboards out for sad razor

https://media.tenor.com/HJPnaSalhJMAAAAM/dawsons-creek-james-van-der-beek.gif

[taniwharugby]

Hopefully will force him to focus on what he has now and those on the fringes in NZ

[Kiwiwomble]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:

what's awesome is that this guarantees Beauden Barrett the 10 jersey for 3 years

wait, awesome isn't the word i am looking for

i wouldn't be surprised if some at NZR actually told razor we've all shelled out for BB through 2027 and they wont spash out on another

[Landers92]

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:

Richie says no:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/22/exclusive-blow-for-all-blacks-as-mounga-decides-to-stay-in-japan/

Bigger picture, this is much better for NZ rugby. Forces us into finding some more 10s, just a shame Plummer has already decided he’s going to leave.

Expecting to see some pretty disappointed Crusader fans that were adamant he was going to be back for the 2026 super season.

[KiwiMurph]

That increases the chances of DMac sticking around