All Blacks 2025
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@DurryMexted said in All Blacks 2025:
@Landers92 and Jeff Wilson said it should be Dylan Pledger! They literally offer no better insight than any battler at the pub, just pumping the players from their own super rugby sides
One of the best things rugby in general could do is get amateur era rugby players completely away from commentary
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@Landers92 It's not a serious programme. I think it's best enjoyed as a comedy.
Or a modern art installation
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@DurryMexted said in All Blacks 2025:
@Landers92 and Jeff Wilson said it should be Dylan Pledger! They literally offer no better insight than any battler at the pub, just pumping the players from their own super rugby sides
In fairness to him he did say it was a random one and implied he isn’t ready. Think he just wanted to name drop one of his Otago boys more than anything. Almost fell off my seat when I heard Drummonds name though.
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
Looking a tough schedule for the next seven games.
Two against the world-champion Boks at home.
Away and home against a rejuvenated Australia hoping to win the Bledisloe for the first time in 23 years.
Ireland in Chicago.
Then Scotland in Edinburgh with their Lions backline and their chance to beat us for the first time ever.
Then England away.We could end up winning only one or two of those.
Wales on a one game unbeaten streak too...
Sorry @MiketheSnow this did make me piss myself
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This was the team from the 2024 game against Ireland (players likely unavailable for the next test crossed out):
- Tamaiti Williams, 2.
Asafo Aumua, 3.Tyrel Lomax, 4. Scott Barrett (captain), 5. Tupou Vaa’i, 6. Wallace Sititi, 7.Sam Cane, 8. Ardie Savea (vice-captain) 9.Cortez Ratima, 10. Damian McKenzie, 11.Caleb Clarke, 12. Jordie Barrett (vice-captain), 13. Rieko Ioane, 14.Mark Tele’a, 15. Will Jordan.
Replacements: 16.
George Bell, 17.Ofa Tu’ungafasi, 18. Pasilio Tosi, 19.Patrick Tuipulotu, 20. Samipeni Finau, 21.Cam Roigard, 22. Anton Lienert-Brown, 23.Stephen Perofeta. - Tamaiti Williams, 2.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:
@booboo said in All Blacks 2025:
What ever happened to Re:Union?
It all went downhill when they stopped this show.
TJ for the win
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Is John Mitchell under contract with the England women after the World Cup?
What's Robbie Deans doing?
I had issues with what both those two gentlemen did during their ABs tenure, but they always made sure our backline made more than 72 meagre metres and one lonely fucking line break in 80 minutes of Test footy.
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hmmm
Yesterday; found myself thinking about who is going to be the next AB coach for the first time since Robertson was appointed!
Was expecting something a bit different from him after hansen/foster ran out of ideas, but it's looking pretty much more of the same. Really hard to see something significantly different.
He'd better have a rethink (tactics/strategy, and players and assistants) or he's just guna be an interim.
The next few games are guna be a really big test. I think we'll find him out.
Guna be a fun watch! -
The honeymoon with Robertson is well and truly over. Whatever capital and goodwill he built up with wins against England, Australia and Ireland last year and France B this year was eroded on Saturday.
I am concerned about the lack of direction, our potential for terrible performance and good players especially in the backs not delivering. The continuity with the Foster era is remarkable, given we were promised change
In hindsight, it was probably an error appointing someone as All Blacks Head Coach with zero Test coaching experience. He seems too keen to stay in his comfort zone: surrounding himself with "yes" men and picking again and again players he has coached before. We should have gone with Dave Rennie, Jamie Joseph or Joe Schmidt in 2023 and given Robertson the opportunity to build up some experience as a Test Coach either as an All Blacks assistant coach or overseas.
That said, I like the man and his manner with players. Given where we are, sacking the Head Coach would be unsettling this side of the World Cup. It should be avoided unless standards really do fall to an unacceptable level.
As suggest looking at whether the assistants are adding enough value is the way to go. Jason Ryan is doing well with the forwards, but I am much less convinced with Jason Holland and Steve Hansen's work with the backs. If we don't see an improvement in these home games against South Africa, I'd be looking at replacing them with other backline coaches: Cory Jane? Tabai Matson?
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Guy I’d be looking at is Tyler Bleyandaal but he’s only just gone back to Ireland’s club system
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@zedsdeadbaby Good call. Carlos Spencer was another person I thought of. He seems to be coaching in Ireland too at the minute.
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@sparky I am unconvinced on Carlos - hasn’t really been a success as yet at any coaching level and think he’s coaching Irish grassroots
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@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky I am unconvinced on Carlos - hasn’t really been a success as yet at any coaching level and think he’s coaching Irish grassroots
Yeah, a school team.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
It's becoming a big club.
Rassie hasnt had 7 wins against the ABs has he?
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@DaGrubster For some of those he was "Director of Rugby" rather than Head Coach, but let's be honest he was making the key decisions.
