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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #2809

    @Bones

    Chchfantic is a dick but he has good links to Robertson etc. If he says Fusitua might be a bolter, that's decent confirmation of what George said. George has also got a lot of things right around Blues/Auckland.. I don't think its fair to call him a liar.

    His success rate is just in the 40-50% range. I hope he keeps posting what he hears

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  • BonesB Online
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    @Duluth the 50% that were wrong were "done deal", "you will see", etc. So I don't know what that should be called.

    Tangitau is as clear an example you'll get of why eggs like me might scoff and disregard, I don't know why you're so invested, but hey surely you giving him credit is enough?

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    #2811

    @Bones said in All Blacks 2025:

    @Duluth the 50% that were wrong were "done deal", "you will see", etc. So I don't know what that should be called.

    Yeah he was clearly incorrect and he got criticism for it

    I think the pile was getting a bit over the top though. The worst shit has been removed

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    hearing that josh jacomb not leaving cheifs , re signing til post world cup , done deal

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    @george34 said in All Blacks 2025:

    hearing that josh jacomb not leaving cheifs , re signing til post world cup , done deal

    100%? Haha

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    @george35 ok, let's just see how it plays out , at this stage ive herd done deal , just need pen on the pape r

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    I won’t believe what @george34 or @george35 post until @george33 confirms.

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #2817

    @george34 & @george35 can you change you user names?

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    @Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:

    @Bones

    Chchfantic is a dick but he has good links to Robertson etc. If he says Fusitua might be a bolter, that's decent confirmation of what George said. George has also got a lot of things right around Blues/Auckland.. I don't think its fair to call him a liar.

    His success rate is just in the 40-50% range. I hope he keeps posting what he hears

    Can't disagree with any of what you've said there.

    As you said, better than 'oh yeah I did hear that' rubbish after not saying anything beforehand.

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    @reprobate it’s the most baffling aspect of last season for me. All the other changes and experiments you could see and even provide a half decent justification for. But the back and forth at 10 was not in the horses for courses or even in the form has dropped off the cliff realms.

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    Looking at the terms of the JRK and Tangitau contracts. I reckon JRK is named, and Tangitau is listed is unavailable due to injury.

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    @ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2025:

    I won’t believe what @george34 or @george35 post until @george33 confirms.

    "pape r" got me.

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    @Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:

    @george34 & @george35 can you change you user names?

    If not, these will be banned at some stage tomorrow

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    @Duluth that’s not very nice. Why am I a dick. Cause I have good oil.
    I’ve been off here for months.

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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2025:

    that’s not very nice. Why am I a dick

    Hey, maybe you're a great guy. I have no idea. I'm calling you a dick based on your posts. You don't think you post like a dick? I thought you were proud of your aggressive online persona

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  • BonesB Online
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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2025:

    I’ve been off here for months.

    Uncanny timing for your return.

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    @chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2025:

    @Duluth that’s not very nice. Why am I a dick. Cause I have good oil.
    I’ve been off here for months.

    Welcome back Mrs Robertson 😉

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #2827

    Thanks impersonator Georges for changing your names. It was funny but it makes threads hard to read

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    #2828

    Article on Josh Fusitua as an AB prospect matched by one from Waikato on Ollie Norris.

    https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/sport/360703120/weight-and-see-chiefs-prop-ollie-norris-tucks-double-dinners-all-blacks-shot?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=1&utm_source=waikato_times_stuff&utm_medium=referral#cxrecs_s

    What's pretty interesting is that Ryan appears to have given him a pretty stern message that 124kgs isn't big enough and they want him at 130kgs,

    I've posted this old Gregor Paul article before - it's eight years old now - but, it's important - and it's behind the times.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/the-weight-evolution-of-the-all-blacks-supersize-only/4HPU2E37QCK74SXVOKDNBJSEJY/

    Paul saying that five years ago (around 2012) AB props were 113-118kgs - "now" (2017) they ideally want them to be 118-125kgs. And now (2025) they want Norris at 130kgs.

    Happening in other positions as well - McCaw was a big openside for his time - consistently listed at 108-109kgs. Most of the AB contenders there now are bigger than 110kgs. Be interesting to put Ardie on the scales these days.

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