All Blacks 2025
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Is it fair to say the French midfielders in the test series didn't produce anything special?
How relevant is top14 form for midfielders?
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@brodean said in All Blacks 2025:
Is it fair to say the French midfielders in the test series didn't produce anything special?
How relevant is top14 form for midfielders?
Well that does also need consider that the best players didn't travel.
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2025:
@brodean said in All Blacks 2025:
Is it fair to say the French midfielders in the test series didn't produce anything special?
How relevant is top14 form for midfielders?
Well that does also need consider that the best players didn't travel.
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2025:
@brodean said in All Blacks 2025:
Is it fair to say the French midfielders in the test series didn't produce anything special?
How relevant is top14 form for midfielders?
Well that does also need consider that the best players didn't travel.
Not the very best but the best available. Fickou has a ton of experience and had been their best for a long time.
And Gailleton is the new 'it' boy isn't he? He came off the bench in the ABs NH test last year.
Barrasi played and he's a top guy.
Seems Moefana and Danty was the only guys missing in the series out of the top guys.
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Fickou was fucking good what are you talking about?
And the French use their midfield very differently to us
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2025:
I don't mind players that have put in the time to the ABs getting a break. It's helps those players last longer and recover from all the contact.
But players like that Mounga and LF that leave early? They can fuck right off.
Faingaʻanuku has played a total of seven tests (two of which were against Namibia and Uruguay) and wasn't deemed good enough for the 23 in the World Cup semi-final or final before he left. Talk of him walking straight back into the squad doesn't sit right.
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@ShaquilleOatmeal Wasn't he sent off against Ireland in Dunedin?
@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2025:
@ShaquilleOatmeal Wasn't he sent off against Ireland in Dunedin?
Just checked. A red card to Angus Ta’avao, yellows to Leicester Fainga’anuku (for colliding with a player in the air) and Ofa Tuungafasi.
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@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2025:
@ShaquilleOatmeal Wasn't he sent off against Ireland in Dunedin?
Just checked. A red card to Angus Ta’avao, yellows to Leicester Fainga’anuku (for colliding with a player in the air) and Ofa Tuungafasi.
@ShaquilleOatmeal A series where discipline cost us dearly, same for the World Cup Final.
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Fickou was fucking good what are you talking about?
And the French use their midfield very differently to us
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
Fickou was fucking good what are you talking about?
And the French use their midfield very differently to us
Didn't say it was bad. Just asked if it was anything special? Do you think Fickou produced special performances?
I'd expect Fainga'anuku to be producing special performances against special players to be able to walk back into the ABs.
Also if the French use midfielders differently how relevant is Fainga'anukus form playing for a French club?
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@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2025:
Would be okay with him switching allegiance personally. Would be a tough decision though, which way would he lean? Samoa are probably more in need of a 10.
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I just don't get why an incredibly average, overseas-based, 31yr-old 10 at the fag-end of his career is considered key to the AB's success by the national coach
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I just don't get why an incredibly average, overseas-based, 31yr-old 10 at the fag-end of his career is considered key to the AB's success by the national coach
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@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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@Victor-Meldrew also shows a lack of trust in BB, DMac and any other 10s running around NZ.
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@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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Unfortunately at this stage trying to develop a 10 other than DMac and BB is a little like trying to polish a turd. We really need that to change.
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An update on Perofeta. For the last year he's had a calf injury that keeps coming back. Expects to be playing in round 3 or 4 of the NPC
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@Victor-Meldrew also shows a lack of trust in BB, DMac and any other 10s running around NZ.
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew also shows a lack of trust in BB, DMac and any other 10s running around NZ.
Sort of echoes the sentiment on here though doesn't it? Very few have faith in BB, and opinions on DMac run hot and cold.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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Unfortunately at this stage trying to develop a 10 other than DMac and BB is a little like trying to polish a turd. We really need that to change.
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chuck72 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew Because the rest of our 10's aren't much different/better?
Then move on and actually, you know, develop players who are going to be around in more than a couple of years
Isn't leaving the jersey in a better place an AB thing?
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Unfortunately at this stage trying to develop a 10 other than DMac and BB is a little like trying to polish a turd. We really need that to change.
Really? I think you can maximise what you have. Jordie looked dynamite playing up north with a different coaching regime. I think our 10s could easily be doing the job needed, but I am not convinced the coaching has been good as Super or Test level for some time.
BB's chips are tolerated by coaches. It is extraordinary. I think it's more that we don't realistically know what we want from a 10, so we don't pick a person and keep them there.
I am also very cautious about RMo coming back and thriving at Test level. He plays like Kyler Murray, and once the electric acceleration goes things will get even harder for him at Test level.
So much fo this is that structurally we tolerate 10s in NZR with noodles for legs. We just don't value kickers.
