All Blacks 2025
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@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.
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@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 $$$ for incumbents, but just seems a bit 'in group'
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@handa457 Mafelio should be encouraged to head to another super team, no point having a potential All Black prop playing most weeks for the hurricane hunters
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2025:
Finlay Christie is like a cockroach, can't be killed.
This is damning with faint praise, but his defence has been very good for some time. He's more of a safe pair of experience to close out a game.
I guess.
The selections are a bit wild. I do not understand not dropping people who are injured, to just name injury cover. I guess it is to preserve $$$ for incumbents, but just seems a bit 'in group'
@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.
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How the fuck did combover win so many SR titles?
Four of the loose forwards are effectively carbon copies of each other.
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
How the fuck did combover win so many SR titles?
Four of the loose forwards are effectively carbon copies of each other.
Richie McCaw. Dan Carter.
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It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Ethan Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap?
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
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It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Ethan Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap?
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Todd Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap.
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
Todd Blackadder's selection would have been a serious shock
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Dalts dropped? Wild
Look who he plays for......
Same team as Christie?
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Dalts dropped? Wild
Look who he plays for......
Same team as Christie?
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2025:
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
Dalts dropped? Wild
Look who he plays for......
Same team as Christie?
Don't spoil the narrative!!!
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
It could be worse, I guess.
I'm relieved that Todd Blackadder and David Havili aren't there.
Luke Jacobson is the new coaches' favourite and lives a charmed life for someone who is made of glass and hardly world class. God knows, what Dalton Papalii has done to piss them off?
Those injury cover selections are a bit baffling, aren't they? Tevito Mafileo would be no where that high on my prop depth chart and why isn't he named as a new cap.
Finley Christie's continued selection is troubling. Kyle Preston offers something different, I guess but Folau Fakatava and Xavier Roe are better players. Weird that Josh Lord (who is injured) gets picked ahead of Sam Darry who isn't.
Todd Blackadder's selection would have been a serious shock
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Luke Jacobson is injured again so Josh Lord (who is walking wounded at best and a Lock) gets named as his injury cover ahead of Dalton Papalii.
Talk me though how that makes any sense.
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
Luke Jacobson is injured again so Josh Lord (who is walking wounded at best and a Lock) gets named as his injury cover ahead of Dalton Papalii.
Talk me though how that makes any sense.
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