All Blacks 2025
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Have the All Blacks managed to put together an 80-minute performance under Razor? Or even back-to-back 65-minute performances?
They rarely managed either of the above during Foster's reign either, mind you, with the World Cup being one of the few examples.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
Mitchell leading England women to a RWC victory is not exactly a great achievement. They are streets ahead of anyone else in terms of environment, funding and professionalism. It'll be an indictment if they don't win it with a significant margin.
Sounds like a statement levelled at NZ for decades
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2025:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
Mitchell leading England women to a RWC victory is not exactly a great achievement. They are streets ahead of anyone else in terms of environment, funding and professionalism. It'll be an indictment if they don't win it with a significant margin.
Sounds like a statement levelled at NZ for decades
We could probably ditch them and do better!
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I think Razor and Ryan need to get on the phone and apologize to Dalton Papali'i
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Gregor Paul: The All Blacks showed their true selves and we need to get used to it
OPINION: If the All Blacks do bounce back, it won't signal the dawn of a golden age.
Gregor Paul decides that the All Blacks are the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of rugby now. How long a week is in NZ rugby journalism!
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@ExiledHalfback said in All Blacks 2025:
I think Razor and Ryan need to get on the phone and apologize to Dalton Papali'i
Ryan is too much of a prick to do that. Smug little fluffybunny.
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@ExiledHalfback said in All Blacks 2025:
I think Razor and Ryan need to get on the phone and apologize to Dalton Papali'i
@Tim must have slow internet, he hasn’t been along to like this yet
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2025:
Has Razor lost the dressing room?
Did he ever have it?
It's a fair question.
He's lucky he has the media and public wrapped around his finger. He has a great PR team.
I always wanted to like the guy, and still want us to turn it around, be that with him or someone else, but was put off from the beginning with that cringe 3 part doco with Jim Kayes, along with the breakdancing and things I mentioned earlier.
Yep, all that cringe PR stuff on top of the fact he took on senior ABs who had come out in support of their previous coach over him. I'm not convinced he's ever had the full buy in from the players and the sooner we can move on the better now.
Foster had the changing room as he put the players first and foremost at cost to himself. That's from player comments in his book. Can't see why Robertson would be any different.
That said, there was serious bad blood from his appointment to succeed Foster and how that was handled inc. Robertson's involvement. Easy to see how that might spill over into the dressing room.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet I'd add Murrayfield too. Great opportunity for the Scots to pop their cherry after 120 years of trying.
Makes Marshall's prediction of an unbeaten year look really silly now. I think we will win at Eden Park and definitely against Wales, but the other games are 50/50 at best.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2025:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
Mitchell leading England women to a RWC victory is not exactly a great achievement. They are streets ahead of anyone else in terms of environment, funding and professionalism. It'll be an indictment if they don't win it with a significant margin.
Sounds like a statement levelled at NZ for decades
You know we have no money eh. LIke, none compared to almost every other major union.
I think our strength came from a centralisation of player contracts, alignment with broad playing style, smart adminstrators and an NPC that was a conveyor belt for talent.
Now? Not so much. Centralisation is starting to hurt, playing style is out of date, our administrators are embarassing and the NPC has been gutted. Result: Super is a bigger step down from Tests and we are fielding players with deep flaws (y'know, like catching the high ball)
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
I don't disagree with this from our "old friend" Stephen Jones. It isn't easy to see what Scott Robertson is trying to achieve.
I bet he had a great time writing that article
.He even wrote this, so he must have been suffering some post-ejaculatory euphoria
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@ExiledHalfback said in All Blacks 2025:
I think Razor and Ryan need to get on the phone and apologize to Dalton Papali'i
I'm gonna sound biased and salty here but fuck it, they really need to grow up and put thir little Canterbury v Auckland bias aside for the benefit of the national team. I know Cantabs hate Jafa's and they love to kick them when they're down and they live rent free in their heads and what not, but you can't just isolate players from a team altogether because of your personal hatred for the side. It's childish.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet I'd add Murrayfield too. Great opportunity for the Scots to pop their cherry after 120 years of trying.
Makes Marshall's prediction of an unbeaten year look really silly now. I think we will win at Eden Park and definitely against Wales, but the other games are 50/50 at best.
Carrying water for his former team-mate? What a surprise.
On the evidence of Sat night the Eden Park record is under threat in 2 weeks.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet I'd add Murrayfield too. Great opportunity for the Scots to pop their cherry after 120 years of trying.
Yeah the Scotties will surely look at Ireland and Argentina as inspiration.
It’s pretty fucken embarrassing that they’ve not managed a single win in all that time.
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@stodders said in All Blacks 2025:
Gregor Paul: The All Blacks showed their true selves and we need to get used to it
OPINION: If the All Blacks do bounce back, it won't signal the dawn of a golden age.
Gregor Paul decides that the All Blacks are the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of rugby now. How long a week is in NZ rugby journalism!
Gregor and his pals enabled this mediocrity.
