All Blacks 2025
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@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:
I'm tempted to think they can't play that bad again.
That's true, it's very rare for any of that back 3 to have dire games.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2025:
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@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Money in the bank.
He had off days. Outsanding generally, but there were days he struggled with the boot.
I remember a game against the Bokke where he missed a lot ... even the best have off days.
Yeah I was watching highlights of a test from that golden era where he played well in general play but missed at least 3 goal kicks. One was pretty standard too.
Off the top of my head… 2008 Capetown vs the Boks. We won 18-5. Was a horrendous swirling wind. Carter overcompensated and missed a lot of kicks. So did Percy from their side. It was Percy’s 50th test too from memory.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
Girlfriend in a coma. I know, I know, it's serious.
...is a very famous Smiths song.
While your sentence seemed to be missing some commas.
Thought you'd get the reference.Sometimes you’re too weird for your own good.
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Jeez watching the Breakdown is painful. No we don’t want Beauden at fullback, we don’t want Ioane at 13. F off.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2025:
Jeez watching the Breakdown is painful. No we don’t want Beauden at fullback, we don’t want Ioane at 13. Fuck off.
Someone is clearly lapping that shit up. Or Sky executives think they are. My observations of rugby comments on FB would suggest there is a large group of imbeciles out there
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2025:
watching the Breakdown
There's your mistake
Fair, I don’t usually watch it but was watching the Stags victory and it came on after when I was cooking a steak. They are literally afraid to say anything negative about any player because they all obviously have ties to most players that are still playing.
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'I can’t physically play like Ma’a Nonu' - All Blacks centre rejects legendary comparisons
🗣️ "Rugby’s so tough at the highest level these days"
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All Blacks have posted on socials that Tavatavanawai have broken his arm and will require surgery. Will be out for a few months. Will post the full update below
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For those who struggle to navigate instagram. Swipe right on the image and you’ll get an update on the other injured player.
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Other big news of that is Darry and Roe join the squad.
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@pakman said in All Blacks 2025:
🗣️ "Rugby’s so tough at the highest level these days"
Maybe we should find out if he's free at the moment...
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
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@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:
Nonu was appreciated in his time. But I think his stature has grown exponentially over the last decade since his international retirement.
Carter’s stature has probably remained the sameThat’s what I mean. Everyone knew he got better and better but once he’d retired he did so as arguably the best 12 ever.
Most complete 12 I've ever seen. Had everything in his game and lot of that came from hard yakka. off the field.
All the skills and a physical beast with it.
Fuck Tim Horan, Nonu is the GOAT
I think there were players with more natural talent and skills. None had his work ethic,
When he debuted for the Canes Nonu was raw powerful and exciting but he tended to make fundamental errors that were exposed when he first played for the All Blacks. Over time he polished those edges and also added a decent kicking game and a very good passing game, two things that he never had at the start. Combined with his brutal physicality Nonu was a complete midfielder for the second half of his all black career. He also had a durability that is evident to this day as he still continues to play professionally
All seemed to click for him when he became a full time 12 as well , the early days of him playing 13 was when he was exposed defensively.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks 2025:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:
Nonu was appreciated in his time. But I think his stature has grown exponentially over the last decade since his international retirement.
Carter’s stature has probably remained the sameThat’s what I mean. Everyone knew he got better and better but once he’d retired he did so as arguably the best 12 ever.
Most complete 12 I've ever seen. Had everything in his game and lot of that came from hard yakka. off the field.
All the skills and a physical beast with it.
Fuck Tim Horan, Nonu is the GOAT
I think there were players with more natural talent and skills. None had his work ethic,
When he debuted for the Canes Nonu was raw powerful and exciting but he tended to make fundamental errors that were exposed when he first played for the All Blacks. Over time he polished those edges and also added a decent kicking game and a very good passing game, two things that he never had at the start. Combined with his brutal physicality Nonu was a complete midfielder for the second half of his all black career. He also had a durability that is evident to this day as he still continues to play professionally
All seemed to click for him when he became a full time 12 as well , the early days of him playing 13 was when he was exposed defensively.
I think that also coincided with him getting very fit, from memory? The AB coaches asked / sent him to sevens and he came back and much fitter and more involved player. Hanson has talked a bit about that being a key turning point.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2025:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks 2025:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:
@zedsdeadbaby said in All Blacks 2025:
Nonu was appreciated in his time. But I think his stature has grown exponentially over the last decade since his international retirement.
Carter’s stature has probably remained the sameThat’s what I mean. Everyone knew he got better and better but once he’d retired he did so as arguably the best 12 ever.
Most complete 12 I've ever seen. Had everything in his game and lot of that came from hard yakka. off the field.
All the skills and a physical beast with it.
Fuck Tim Horan, Nonu is the GOAT
I think there were players with more natural talent and skills. None had his work ethic,
When he debuted for the Canes Nonu was raw powerful and exciting but he tended to make fundamental errors that were exposed when he first played for the All Blacks. Over time he polished those edges and also added a decent kicking game and a very good passing game, two things that he never had at the start. Combined with his brutal physicality Nonu was a complete midfielder for the second half of his all black career. He also had a durability that is evident to this day as he still continues to play professionally
All seemed to click for him when he became a full time 12 as well , the early days of him playing 13 was when he was exposed defensively.
I think that also coincided with him getting very fit, from memory? The AB coaches asked / sent him to sevens and he came back and much fitter and more involved player. Hanson has talked a bit about that being a key turning point.
I remember seeing him get arrested on C place in the wee small hours back in 2004 ( I think ) his career was a bit sporadic for a few years after that but whatever boot in the arse he got ( or gave himself ) worked wonders after that.
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@taniwharugby if I was Fakatava I'd be on the phone to my agent. Finding out you're seventh in line for All Blacks call up must be really frustrating. Especially after NZ rugby came out and called him a 'potential all black' when he signed on for two more years a few months back.
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@taniwharugby I genuinely can't understand it. In my opinion he's one of the best game managing halfbacks in New Zealand at the moment and he's a constant threat around the ruck.
