Scotland v All Blacks
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As always, I'd have had DMac at 10 ahead of Beauden Barrett and Ruben Love at fullback with Will Jordan in his natural position of Right Wing.
Nods all round to the front five, the starting midfield and Cam Roigard at Half Back.
Not so happy about the midget backrow quartet. This is a Rugby Test Match, not a Hobbit convention. It makes the exclusion of Dalton Papalii and Hoskins Sotutu even worse if Luke Jacobson and Samipeni Finau are in the squad as foodbills.
I'd have had Reiko Ioane on the bench ahead of Billy Proctor.
Hopefully we'll be far too good for Scotland anyway.
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@His-Bobness said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
Is the fact Parker has been dropped right out of the 23 a sign that that particular experiment is over?
My reading is that he's being rested up for England after taking a knock against Ireland.
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Scotland: Kinghorn; Graham, Hutchinson, Tuipulotu (capt) Steyn; Russell, White; Schoeman, Ashman, Rae, Gilchrist, Cummings, Brown, M Fagerson, Dempsey.
Replacements: Turner, Sutherland, Millar-Mills, Sykes, Darge, Bayliss, Dobie, Jordan. -
@Bones I like Leroy Carter, he's a bloody good winger, but does he have top-end speed?
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With Steyn starting its one Saffa winger replacing the other Saffa wing
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@ACT-Crusader Not sure we they have left out VDM, but that's an impressive backline. Hopefully the ABs will make life difficult indeed for those Scottish forwards.
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VDM started last week against the US, probably just some rotation.
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Fagerson, Brown and Dempsey is not a big loose forward trio by any stretch. And they have Darge on the bench who wouldn’t be much bigger than most halfbacks.
We will see a lot of attack on the ball by these loosies, so hopefully our boys will be up for it.
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Playing conditions are forecast to be good:
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@Bones said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@booboo said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@Bones said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@voodoo said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@Bones said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@booboo said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
reserve midfielder.
You would prefer ALB?
I’d prefer Rieko
Completely forgot about him! Would be really interesting to see how he goes as an impact player.
The glimpses i had of him in Perth suggested the pace was back. Covers wing and midfield (played a super season at 12).
Edit: the option we've chosen is an underperformed single position player.
Proctor has played plenty in the outsides at SR, as has LF.
Pretty sure he was a full back before going into midfield.
I'd like to see him get another shot. Could be his last one for awhile if he doesn't fire a shot.
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The All Blacks are going to be wearing white jerseys.
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@sparky said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
It makes the exclusion of Dalton Papalii and Hoskins Sotutu even worse if Luke Jacobson and Samipeni Finau are in the squad as foodbills.
Why? So Papalii and Sotutu can be foodbills instead?
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@ACT-Crusader said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
Scotland: Kinghorn; Graham, Hutchinson, Tuipulotu (capt) Steyn; Russell, White; Schoeman, Ashman, Rae, Gilchrist, Cummings, Brown, M Fagerson, Dempsey.
Replacements: Turner, Sutherland, Millar-Mills, Sykes, Darge, Bayliss, Dobie, Jordan.No DvdM? Injured?
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@mohikamo said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
@MN5 said in Scotland Vs All Blacks, 8th November 2025:
Apparently Brad Thorn was bloody good at this facet of the game
He was.
And I saw a comment he made that rugby league players had no conception of the amount of power that was generated in a rugby union scrum.I was at a lunch in Brisbane where Brad talked of exactly same thing. There were a couple of leaguies there who asked Brad whether union was tough etc as league. He tries to expalin how much unuion was a sport where everyone had to work together and then spoke of the power going through a scrum, and how it was from everyone. He was also very proud that although he had retired he could still work as good as the Reds forwards when training at scrums.
