All Blacks 2025
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean And a first ever loss at Murrayfield too.
Seriously, how long are the sponsors going to tolerate this shit? If you were a big multi-national business with options, why would you want to be associated with the current All Blacks set-up?
I wouldn’t worry about that. The Scots will shit the bed as usual
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Is Lomax still our top tight head as some papers say? Methinks he has competition!
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2025:
Is Lomax still our top tight head as some papers say? Methinks he has competition!
He's out of form. We were doing much better with Newell starting and Tosi finishing. Tosi is a better bench option than Newell or Lomax.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:
We lost last week and the rowdy consensus here seemed to be that all the Ass. Coaches except Ryan should be rolled.
Not just the assistants. All of them
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:
We lost last week and the rowdy consensus here seemed to be that all the Ass. Coaches except Ryan should be rolled.
Not just the assistants. All of them
Who would you bring in Duluth?
Not sure if Joe Schmidt (if it's true he can't work with current NZRFU) would come in, but he must be 1st choice.
Then Jamie Joseph, Vern Cotter, others? -
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:
We lost last week and the rowdy consensus here seemed to be that all the Ass. Coaches except Ryan should be rolled.
Not just the assistants. All of them
Who would you bring in Duluth?
Not sure if Joe Schmidt (if it's true he can't work with current NZRFU) would come in, but he must be 1st choice.
Then Jamie Joseph, Vern Cotter, others?@Frank said in All Blacks 2025:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks 2025:
We lost last week and the rowdy consensus here seemed to be that all the Ass. Coaches except Ryan should be rolled.
Not just the assistants. All of them
Who would you bring in Duluth?
Not sure if Joe Schmidt (if it's true he can't work with current NZRFU) would come in, but he must be 1st choice.
Then Jamie Joseph, Vern Cotter, others?That's a good start
It's pointless because it won't happen. Robertson is almost unsackable.. it would cost too much. Maybe he can be convinced to act with honour? I doubt it.
My prediction is there will be a couple of scapegoats at the end of the year - Hansen & Ellison.
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Our defensive pattern fell apart in the second half and our captain offered zero leadership in the last 40 minutes.
Plenty to fix, to put it mildly, but dumping Tamati Elllison as Defence coach and Scott Barrett as Captain are probably the best places to start.
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Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 Jordan -
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 Jordan@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 JordanI’m disappointed you’re not gonna chuck Akira Ioane in there for an all Blues trio
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 JordanI’m disappointed you’re not gonna chuck Akira Ioane in there for an all Blues trio
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Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 Jordan@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 JordanFar too much throwing out the baby with the bathwater here.
Dropping Sititi and Vaa'i, who were NZ's two best players last year and are in still in good form this year, is mad. Tuipulotu has about five good games for NZ in however many seasons he's played and while I'd love to see him back on the beach to add impact, it's a hail Mary play to expect him to pick him ahead of Vaa'i or even Barrett.
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Norris is excellent in the loose but he's certainly the worst of the looseheads we have in the squad at scrum time and I know NZ wouldn't be playing SA again for the next match but given how much the scrum has been monstered lately, Norris is certainly not the answer.
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Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 Jordan -
@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 JordanFar too much throwing out the baby with the bathwater here.
Dropping Sititi and Vaa'i, who were NZ's two best players last year and are in still in good form this year, is mad. Tuipulotu has about five good games for NZ in however many seasons he's played and while I'd love to see him back on the beach to add impact, it's a hail Mary play to expect him to pick him ahead of Vaa'i or even Barrett.
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Norris is excellent in the loose but he's certainly the worst of the looseheads we have in the squad at scrum time and I know NZ wouldn't be playing SA again for the next match but given how much the scrum has been monstered lately, Norris is certainly not the answer.
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Yes, Sotutu is excellent. He was particularly so when the Blues beat the Chiefs in Hamilton this year.
The incumbents also need to be punished for some dreadful performances.
Tuipulotu has been excellent last two seasons. Vaai and Barrett need to be sent a message.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Need a caretaker coach. Anyone would be better. Take one of the Super Rugby management teams.
Depending on the availability, need big changes for next game:
1 Norris
2 Taylor
3 Newell
4 Tuipulotu
5 Holland
6 Parker
7 Papalii
8 Sotutu9 ?
10 DMac
11 Clarke
12 J Barrett
13 R Ioane
14 ?
15 Love16 Taukei'aho
17 Williams
18 Tosi
19 Vaa'i
20 Savea
21 ?
22 Tupaea
23 JordanFar too much throwing out the baby with the bathwater here.
Dropping Sititi and Vaa'i, who were NZ's two best players last year and are in still in good form this year, is mad. Tuipulotu has about five good games for NZ in however many seasons he's played and while I'd love to see him back on the beach to add impact, it's a hail Mary play to expect him to pick him ahead of Vaa'i or even Barrett.
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Norris is excellent in the loose but he's certainly the worst of the looseheads we have in the squad at scrum time and I know NZ wouldn't be playing SA again for the next match but given how much the scrum has been monstered lately, Norris is certainly not the answer.
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@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Yes, Sotutu is excellent. He was particularly so when the Blues beat the Chiefs in Hamilton this year.
The incumbents also need to be punished for some dreadful performances.
Tuipulotu has been excellent last two seasons. Vaai and Barrett need to be sent a message.
@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks 2025:
So many complaints that the loosies weren't hitting rucks but you'd bring in Sotutu to fix that?
Yes, Sotutu is excellent. He was particularly so when the Blues beat the Chiefs in Hamilton this year.
The incumbents also need to be punished for some dreadful performances.
Tuipulotu has been excellent last two seasons. Vaai and Barrett need to be sent a message.
Well yeah, something has to happen.
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The vast majority of the Springboks side that were thumped 57-0 in 2017 were kept in the team and went on to win the RWC two years later.
More or less the same team that beat the Springboks last week ran out this week. Sometimes results swing one way or another. Fix the high ball game, fix the set piece and the All Blacks will be fine. Some of those things require personnel changes, som or them don't.
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Can anyone remember the All Blacks giving up before?
In nearly forty years of watching the team I can't.
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
Can anyone remember the All Blacks giving up before?
In nearly forty years of watching the team I can't.
No. I thought at 29-10 they would at least try to get the last score. Instead…capitulation.
Maybe they had no energy left
