All Blacks 2025
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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.
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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.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
There's no point "resting" players next weekend. They rested for 80 minutes against the Pumas
Everyone who is fit and wants to be considered for the Springboks games should be playing NPC next weekend.
But the poor babies will be jet-lagged.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks 2025:
But the poor babies will be jet-lagged.
at least they'll land healthy, as they're unlikely to catch anything.
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Sixteen members of the All Blacks Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship squad will represent their Provincial Unions in the Bunnings Warehouse National Provincial Championship this weekend.
Friday 29 August
North Harbour v Bay of Plenty – North Harbour Stadium, 7.05pm
Bay of Plenty: Emoni Narawa; Leroy Carter, Tevita MafileoSaturday 30 August
Canterbury v Manawatū – Rangiora Showground Oval, 2.05pm
Canterbury: Brodie McAlisterCounties Manukau v Taranaki – Navigation Homes Stadium, Pukekohe, 2.05pm
Taranaki: Josh LordTa$man v Otago – Trafalgar Park, Nelson, 7.05pm
Ta$man: Timoci Tavatavanawai
Otago: George BowerSunday 31 August
Wellington v Auckland – Porirua Park, 2.05pm
Wellington: Kyle Preston; Peter Lakai; Ruben Love; Asafo Aumua
Auckland: Caleb ClarkeWaikato v Southland – FMG Stadium Waikato, 4.35pm
Waikato: Anton Lienert-Brown; Luke Jacobson; Samipeni Finau; Ollie Norris.Clarke's return will be important given the average performances of the incumbent wingers.
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@Bovidae It.'s a shame they are not all playing NPC this weekend.
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@Bovidae bet southland would have loved to get Groot and Reece back.
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@taniwharugby It's not like DMac or Tupaea played many minutes either.
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ALB needs to go back to the NPC to practise his card-generating plays.
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Now I know how Wales must have felt when they went into decline after their golden era of the 1970s. We seem to be getting further and further from the peak as Razor's tenure goes on. At this rate we will likely suffer a QF exit in a couple years time, if indeed we make it out of the group...
Of course fortunes can change in the space of a game. But we are a rabble right now
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What worries me most after that horse shit performance (it was smellier than the Springboks' turd at Ellis Park) is the acceptance of an utterly abysmal All Blacks performance as something normal.
Standards have fallen. Our decline was not inevitable.
