Barbarians v All Blacks XV
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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.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
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.
Yes Havili can pass on his experience of being the worst player on the field in the AUNZ team that got thrashed by the Lions.
So valuable.....
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@cgrant said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
Pat Lam or Tanielu Telea would have fit in this AB XV at 2nd 5. Havili was pretty good during this year's NPC but as a fullback.
Pat maybe a bit past it now mate especially for a change of position as well.
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@KiwiMurph said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@ACT-Crusader said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
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.
Yes Havili can pass on his experience of being the worst player on the field in the AUNZ team that got thrashed by the Lions.
So valuable.....
Yes because that was a real team that meant something….
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@ACT-Crusader said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@KiwiMurph said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
@ACT-Crusader said in Barbarians v All Blacks XV:
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.
Yes Havili can pass on his experience of being the worst player on the field in the AUNZ team that got thrashed by the Lions.
So valuable.....
Yes because that was a real team that meant something….
Looked like a pretty good audition for the ABs if you watched us Vs SA in Welly.
