All Blacks 2025
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Man, I really would prefer Plummer over Barrett at the Blues next season.
I still don't know why Cotter gave the team back to BB after Plummer won him the title the year before. BB is kissed on the cosk so much but is so undeserving now days
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Eventually, sport gives you the truth. One of few things in life that does. For me the biggest storyline from 2025, barring a defeat next week, will be France bringing their C team. Had they brought their lunch, the truth would have surfaced much earlier.
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“Congratulations Beauden Barrett on your 200th test, especially in this important 2028 Rugby Championship clash against the Springboks.”
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2025:
“Congratulations Beauden Barrett on your 200th test, especially in this important 2028 Rugby Championship clash against the Springboks.”
Don't give them ideas, they're probably reading.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360887652/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-all-blacks-against-england-london
All Blacks coach Scott Robertson is certain to make changes for the test against Wales, but you would expect he won't tell captain Scott Barrett to take a rest.
Barrett won't have an appetite to return home in the knowledge his most recent appearance for the All Blacks was while giving interviews as the defeated commander in chief.
Robertson, who is contracted to NZ Rugby through to the 2027 World Cup, is likely to be asked tough questions from the board when he returns Down Under.
Things are busy on the home front. There's a whiff of change in the air.
Hmm ... We can only hope that an intelligent chairman gets rid of an idiot coach.
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Parker, Finau, Jacobson, Sititi - all complete failures this year from the Chiefs. Same players responsible for their team having a record loss in the 2024 SR final, a loss in the 2025 quarter final, and didn't fire a shot in 2025 final.
Picking all four of them was insane. To make matters worse, the retard coach picked Vaai at 6 too. No imagination, let alone intelligence or analytical ability.
Good lord, what a shit group of players.
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The absolute worst selection this year for me was Sevu Reece. The guy is shit at test level, as was revealed constantly in 2024. He is never making the world cup, he is never doing anything good. Why the fuck was he there. Terrible. Only an idiot would select him.
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Well Holland already jumped/pushed.
Hansen, Ellison to go?...but again, who comes in for these guys? Cupboard seems bare right now.
What's worse, is the shit show extends beyond this coaching team, NZR has shit on thier hands, right back to how Foster was appointed, how Razor was appointed and the whole process.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Parker, Finau, Jacobson, Sititi - all complete failures this year from the Chiefs. Same players responsible for their team having a record loss in the 2024 SR final, a loss in the 2025 quarter final, and didn't fire a shot in 2025 final.
Picking all four of them was insane. To make matters worse, the retard coach picked Vaai at 6 too. No imagination, let alone intelligence or analytical ability.
Good lord, what a shit group of players.
chiefs were only team to pick big 6s , next year looks like other teams are going to as well, may the best big win
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks 2025:
we do have a forward pack that can compete with anyone
Except England and Sth Africa - and poss. Argentina.
What's worrying is Ryan has done a great job with the tight 5, players selected by Foster have been developed and new talent like Holland brought into the team - yet they still go to shit for extended periods regularly.
There's something very wrong with the headspace/culture of this team - and it isn't getting any better
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@Victor-Meldrew You are arguing with an old boomer retard. The only person I have blocked on here.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
Robertson, who is contracted to NZ Rugby through to the 2027 World Cup, is likely to be asked tough questions from the board when he returns Down Under.
If appointing Robertson/undermining Foster was a board decision, rather than a Mark Robinson solo decision, I wouldn't count on it.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2025:
In 2004, Henry took over an ABs team with a lot of psychological hang-ups.
Struggled in SA, went to NH and destroyed France. Best game I have attended in person.
This was a game in which we didn't have better players overall, but we out coached them easily. We need to move on from these dunces, and have smart coaches now
