All Blacks 2025
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
I'm far from delighted about this deal.
Watching two World Cup failures where we built the team around Richie Mo'unga was depressing enough. His limitations were ruthlessly exposed by England in Yokohama in 2019 and the Springboks in Paris in 2023. I doubt he's learned to manage limited time on the ball against an extremely organised rushed defence since.
I do not wish to see us lose a third World Cup because of Richie Mo'unga's average game management skills.
If he really is our best First Five and worth all the money NZR is throwing at him, then why aren't we making him available for the five-week tour of South Africa next year?
Mo’unga is pretty low on the list of reasons for the losses in 2019 and 2023. Neither result would have been different with a different first five leading the team. Reality is we’re not winning 2027 with Dmac or Beuden at first five, so what is the alternative?
@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
I'm far from delighted about this deal.
Watching two World Cup failures where we built the team around Richie Mo'unga was depressing enough. His limitations were ruthlessly exposed by England in Yokohama in 2019 and the Springboks in Paris in 2023. I doubt he's learned to manage limited time on the ball against an extremely organised rushed defence since.
I do not wish to see us lose a third World Cup because of Richie Mo'unga's average game management skills.
If he really is our best First Five and worth all the money NZR is throwing at him, then why aren't we making him available for the five-week tour of South Africa next year?
Mo’unga is pretty low on the list of reasons for the losses in 2019 and 2023. Neither result would have been different with a different first five leading the team. Reality is we’re not winning 2027 with Dmac or Beuden at first five, so what is the alternative?
How about one who kicked all his goals in 2023?
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Love and Reihana will have to content themselves with building their case for AB 10 ready for post RWC27 I guess
@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
Love and Reihana will have to content themselves with building their case for AB 10 ready for post RWC27 I guess
Or joining DMac on the plane
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
Love and Reihana will have to content themselves with building their case for AB 10 ready for post RWC27 I guess
Or joining DMac on the plane
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2025:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
Love and Reihana will have to content themselves with building their case for AB 10 ready for post RWC27 I guess
Or joining DMac on the plane
That will be a crime
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2025:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNCUziRzfLv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Rancid.
The crest on the front is bigger than any name on the back.....or at least it used to be.
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So you fuck off to fill your wallet while the rest of the loyal lads put their shoulders to the wheel.
We get touched up by the Springboks on the regular, lose to Argentina again and could quite possibly lose the Eden park record in your absence.
You then swan in just before a World Cup to feather your own nest, and no sooner have you arrived we need to succession plan for your imminent exit again post tournament.
Nah fuck off.
The Allblacks should not be a half way house for contractors at a loose end.
We are turning into the Dubai of Rugby.
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what concerns me more is that, in 2027, the age of 60% of the starting 10s in Super Rugby will be 36, 32 and 31. They will also have pretty much every cap at 10 for the past three world cup cycles.
They will also all leave NZ rugby at the end of that year.
If this was a club side the list manager would get fired.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
what concerns me more is that, in 2027, the age of 60% of the starting 10s in Super Rugby will be 36, 32 and 31. They will also have pretty much every cap at 10 for the past three world cup cycles.
They will also all leave NZ rugby at the end of that year.
If this was a club side the list manager would get fired.
His shadow will also be cast over this years NPC and next years Super Rugby.
We already have our bolter......currently playing in Japan.
Whats the point.
The whole affair is really deflating.
So whats the trend now?
Establish yourself early doors if you can, get your Allblack cap and then dip your toe in and out every World Cup cycle?
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
We did something similar with Sonny Bill Williams which turned out alright, even if the circus around him was nauseating at times.
We did it again with Roger Tuisava-Sheck who never really seemed at home in Rugby.
SBW was a crazy athlete - if he got the positioning and skills he was going to succeed in some format.
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
We did something similar with Sonny Bill Williams which turned out alright, even if the circus around him was nauseating at times.
We did it again with Roger Tuisava-Sheck who never really seemed at home in Rugby.
SBW was a crazy athlete - if he got the positioning and skills he was going to succeed in some format.
Was he really ? Great beach muscles but was he noticably faster, fitter, stronger than others ?
Ma’a Nonu blasted through tackles better than he did, J Savea, R Ioane etc were quicker.
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What a terrible precedent for a very average player. I wouldn't even have wanted a mercenary deal like this for Carter, and Ritchie is no Dan Carter.
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2025:
What a terrible precedent for a very average player. I wouldn't even have wanted a mercenary deal like this for Carter, and Ritchie is no Dan Carter.
The disparity between the headlines Mounga generates and his playing ability is quite immense
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Don't love what this signing signals to other 10s but don't think it's a bad thing that Mo'unga is returning. If he comes back and he's the best 10 option then he should be selected - no different to any other player coming back.
The issue lies with Robertson, especially if he selects Mo'unga when he's not performed.
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@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
We did something similar with Sonny Bill Williams which turned out alright, even if the circus around him was nauseating at times.
We did it again with Roger Tuisava-Sheck who never really seemed at home in Rugby.
SBW was a crazy athlete - if he got the positioning and skills he was going to succeed in some format.
Was he really ? Great beach muscles but was he noticably faster, fitter, stronger than others ?
Ma’a Nonu blasted through tackles better than he did, J Savea, R Ioane etc were quicker.
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
@nzzp said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
We did something similar with Sonny Bill Williams which turned out alright, even if the circus around him was nauseating at times.
We did it again with Roger Tuisava-Sheck who never really seemed at home in Rugby.
SBW was a crazy athlete - if he got the positioning and skills he was going to succeed in some format.
Was he really ? Great beach muscles but was he noticably faster, fitter, stronger than others ?
Ma’a Nonu blasted through tackles better than he did, J Savea, R Ioane etc were quicker.
If you want to compare him to our greatest 12, a wing who had a peak as high as any in world rugby and the best athlete in the team, then go for it. It may not make the point you are trying to make though.
He was a pretty remarkable dude, carried a big frame with him and some serious muscle.
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Don't love what this signing signals to other 10s but don't think it's a bad thing that Mo'unga is returning. If he comes back and he's the best 10 option then he should be selected - no different to any other player coming back.
The issue lies with Robertson, especially if he selects Mo'unga when he's not performed.
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
Don't love what this signing signals to other 10s but don't think it's a bad thing that Mo'unga is returning. If he comes back and he's the best 10 option then he should be selected - no different to any other player coming back.
The issue lies with Robertson, especially if he selects Mo'unga when he's not performed.
Well yes if he performs and proves he is a better option than BB or D Mac there shouldn’t be a problem,considering BB will be 36 at WC time he maybe well past it, he is not far off that now.
2 more years maybe we will need another experienced option.
The problem is D Mac will be 33 come 2028.
Barrett 37 RM 34.
We will need some serious new blood in 2028
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@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
Don't love what this signing signals to other 10s but don't think it's a bad thing that Mo'unga is returning. If he comes back and he's the best 10 option then he should be selected - no different to any other player coming back.
The issue lies with Robertson, especially if he selects Mo'unga when he's not performed.
Well yes if he performs and proves he is a better option than BB or D Mac there shouldn’t be a problem,considering BB will be 36 at WC time he maybe well past it, he is not far off that now.
2 more years maybe we will need another experienced option.
The problem is D Mac will be 33 come 2028.
Barrett 37 RM 34.
We will need some serious new blood in 2028
Probably at least 2 new caps blooded at the same time.@Chris said in All Blacks 2025:
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
Don't love what this signing signals to other 10s but don't think it's a bad thing that Mo'unga is returning. If he comes back and he's the best 10 option then he should be selected - no different to any other player coming back.
The issue lies with Robertson, especially if he selects Mo'unga when he's not performed.
Well yes if he performs and proves he is a better option than BB or D Mac there shouldn’t be a problem,considering BB will be 36 at WC time he maybe well past it, he is not far off that now.
2 more years maybe we will need another experienced option.
The problem is D Mac will be 33 come 2028.
Barrett 37 RM 34.
We will need some serious new blood in 2028
Probably at least 2 new caps blooded at the same time.Love and Reihana would appear to be two candidates that come to mind right now
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I'm going on record with the rest of the underwhelmed.
Not fussed. He's no Dan Carter, nor for that matter Mehrts or Spencer. Fuck, he's not even fucking Aaron Cruden.
Am not UNHAPPY to see him back, but I'm not doing backflips over a 30-something semi-decent 1st 5/8 who is rather indistinguishable from those currently available and hasn't played Tests for 3 years. Will he be better than the guys we have? Maybe, maybe not.
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Now Razor can behave like a giddy ex-girlfriend, persist with an ageing BB, and pin all his hopes on RM, instead of searching and developing the next young AB 10
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
Now Razor can behave like a giddy ex-girlfriend, persist with an ageing BB, and pin all his hopes on RM, instead of searching and developing the next young AB 10
No Love? Lost?
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I'm going on record with the rest of the underwhelmed.
Not fussed. He's no Dan Carter, nor for that matter Mehrts or Spencer. Fuck, he's not even fucking Aaron Cruden.
Am not UNHAPPY to see him back, but I'm not doing backflips over a 30-something semi-decent 1st 5/8 who is rather indistinguishable from those currently available and hasn't played Tests for 3 years. Will he be better than the guys we have? Maybe, maybe not.
