All Blacks 2025

[booboo]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:

Halfbacks: Cortez Ratima, Cameron Roigard, Noah Hotham

Huh?

ZB assuring me yesterday that Roigard and Hotham are out ... ?

Edit:

Injury Cover: George Bower, Tevita Mafileo, Josh Lord, Finlay Christie, Kyle Preston, Leroy Carter

Uhuh

[Bovidae]

You would have to wonder why Fakatava signed a new contract.

[Dan54]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2025:

@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:

Halfbacks: Cortez Ratima, Cameron Roigard, Noah Hotham

Huh?

ZB assuring me yesterday that Roigard and Hotham are out ... ?

They are, still been named, but that's why these 3 halfbacks named as injury cover.

[mariner4life]

three locks
three blindsides
three opensides
i assume Sititi will play 8
And a hybrid.

[Dan54]

No real arguments with anyone named, anyone who didn't think Christy wssn't getting named ,I suspect weren't really thinking. They not going into RC with only one halfback with test experience.
I was slightly surprised that Darry wasn't named, and with Parker there, is the Vai'i thing at 6 coming to end?

[African Monkey]

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:

Dalts dropped? Wild

Look who he plays for......

[handa457]

@Bovidae some head scratching decisions there.

Presently for me Fakatava is in the top three halfbacks in NZ. How Preston and Christie get ahead of him I can’t understand.

Lord is made from glass and needs game time. How he’s ahead of Darry just makes no sense to me.

I’m not opposed to Parker being in the mix. But no Papalii is just wild. He’s in my mind miles ahead of Jacobson or Kirifi.

Surprised Carter got in over JRK and frankly I’m not thrilled about it.

Mafelio is a truely baffling decision. Dyer, Ma’au and a few other props would have the inside running over him there from my perspective.

[KiwiMurph]

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:

Dalts dropped? Wild

How Jacobsen gets selected in squad after squad completely baffles me.

[canefan]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:

Dalts dropped? Wild

How Jacobsen gets selected in squad after squad completely baffles me.

He's the new Blackadder

[zedsdeadbaby]

@African-Monkey

Counties?

[canefan]

@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:

@African-Monkey

Counties?

Blues

[Grooter]

@handa457 Mafelio should be encouraged to head to another super team, no point having a potential All Black prop playing most weeks for the hurricane hunters

[Bovidae]

Reece is the protected player.

[nzzp]

@Frank said in All Blacks 2025:

Finlay Christie is like a cockroach, can't be killed.

This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.

I guess.

The selections are a bit wild. I do not understand not dropping people who are injured, to just name injury cover. I guess it is to preserve $$$ for incumbents, but just seems a bit 'in group'

[Bovidae]

@Grooter BOP have now lost their starting and reserve TH prop.

[sparky]

Congratulations to Simon Parker, Kyle Preston and Leroy Carter.

[antipodean]

How the fuck did combover win so many SR titles?

Four of the loose forwards are effectively carbon copies of each other.

[sparky]

@Bovidae "The two most important positions on the field."

[KiwiMurph]

I dislike Christie as much as anyone but I can see why they picked him. Need an experienced 9 to go with Ratima across to Argie. He's played under these coaches. He's played 23 tests. Happy with Preston given a chance too.

[antipodean]

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:

This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.

It has to be, he does nothing for our attack.