Barbarians v All Blacks XV
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NZR+ is a thoroughly dogshit app. Doesn't even have an upcoming streams or fixtures feature. Never remembers logins. Randomly stopped being able to stream video on my tablet the other day. Still works in the browser for some reason. The idea that they think people would pay for it. I'd trust a paid subscription on youtube. Not that shit.
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@family-man said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@Bones what time please?
That's rather subjective I'd say. 13:15 GMT if that helps.
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@Tim I've never used NZR+ so can't comment.
There is a link in this article to the NZR+ page so I assume it will be on that platform.
All Blacks XV named to play the Barbarians
Dalton Papali’i will captain an exciting All Blacks XV squad against the Barbarians as the side starts its three-match European tour at GTech Stadium in Brentford on Sunday (NZT).
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@Bovidae said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@Tim I've never used NZR+ so can't comment.
There is a link in this article to the NZR+ page so I assume it will be on that platform.
All Blacks XV named to play the Barbarians
Dalton Papali’i will captain an exciting All Blacks XV squad against the Barbarians as the side starts its three-match European tour at GTech Stadium in Brentford on Sunday (NZT).
That's just the general info page of where you can watch the ABs outside of NZ, it's not specifically about this match.
If it's on NZR+ we have no way of knowing as like @Tim says there's no upcoming matches tab in the app.
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Ok, I'll bite on the AB XV lineup. Why DH starting at 12, isn't this a great opportunity to start someone else young and fresh and relatively untried?
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@nostrildamus said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
Ok, I'll bite on the AB XV lineup. Why DH starting at 12, isn't this a great opportunity to start someone else young and fresh and relatively untried?
Coz that's what we've become. A veterans team
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@canefan said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@nostrildamus said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
Ok, I'll bite on the AB XV lineup. Why DH starting at 12, isn't this a great opportunity to start someone else young and fresh and relatively untried?
Coz that's what we've become. A veterans team
Aargh!!
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I think it’s worth having two or three experienced ABs (eg Havili, Papali’i) in a team like the AB XV to share their international insight and experience with some pretty young dudes who are tasting their first international footy as a senior player.
Plus it’s not as if Havili is over the moon, he’s only 30.
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@nostrildamus there's no really any guys that fit the bill of being younger and also being in the right place to be ready for it. Taele has a ways to go, Higgins is injured, etc.
It's just a lot of guys in their late 20s or early 30s. McLeod is on the younger side of that range but played in the NPC Final, so is being rested. The only other thing you can do is shoe-horn a career outside centre in there but I fail to see the point of that.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
Plus it’s not as if Havili is over the moon, he’s only 30.
31 before Christmas!
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@nostrildamus said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
Ok, I'll bite on the AB XV lineup. Why DH starting at 12, isn't this a great opportunity to start someone else young and fresh and relatively untried?
David Havili has played okay this year, not well enough to be an All Blacks starter or even in the full ABs, but I'm relaxed at him being in the All Blacks XV. He's still a tidy player.
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Damp overnight in West London but it should be good conditions for running rugby in Brentford during game.
