All Blacks 2025
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@voodoo said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
If true, this all comes back to the original squad and Razor taking a giant shit on the form players of SR and instead bringing in the grossly undeserving.
So much for his vaunted man management and motivational skills.
Really?
Firstly, I can't see how this story is true - or if it is, it would have been a super select invite list at Taylors doing, just a couple of close mates, likely spur of the moment or something.
I just can't see the non-Cantab players hating Razor so much that they refuse the chance to honour a bloke like Taylor who has been an awesome AB and seems very well-liked by all.
We all like to hate on Ardie for his game, but can you imagine him saying to Codie "cheers for the invite bro, but fuck that, Razor sucks, I'm not coming"? DMac? Sami?
Just nah
Maybe the Crusaders have a clique, and it's not just Razor? CEO, Coaches, Captain...
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To be fair to Love, if he starts for the All Blacks against Cardiff, he has to be the Hurricanes No 10 next year come hell or high water. The idea that anyone can consistently play No 10 at test level without years of seeing the pictures at the next level down isn’t just naive, it’s setting the player in question up to fail. The other part of the No 10 issue that is troublesome is that New Zealand rugby as a whole has decided that it wants run-first, X-factor No 10s without the alternative model ever being tested. What would the All Blacks have looked like over the past two tests with a No 10 with a big boot, tactical smarts and a simple desire to get them into the right areas? The simple answer is: better. And yet, when this type of player - Harry Plummer - won Super Rugby with the Blues in 2024, there was still this underlying, borderline-arrogant narrative that he “wasn’t an All Blacks No 10”. Plummer got five minutes off the bench for the All Blacks against the Wallabies in Sydney last year and was never seen again. But he was just included in the Top 14 team of the month for October for his exploits for Clermont in France, so the 27-year-old can play and his retention would have at least provided the All Blacks with some tactical variety at No 10 - the possibility of a plan B. -
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel Universe collab gear.
https://www2.allblackshop.com/?query=Marvel&_ref=p-HP:m-SEARCH&_s=bm-fi-NZR-prteml-Marvel-launch
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
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@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel universe collab gear.
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
Tossers.
forgot to change accounts bro?
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel universe collab gear.
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
Tossers.
forgot to change accounts bro?
No im just furious.
Look what we have become.
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@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel universe collab gear.
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
Tossers.
forgot to change accounts bro?
No im just furious.
Look what we have become.
sure, but it's pretty grouse stuff bro - get in!
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@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel Universe collab gear.
https://www2.allblackshop.com/?query=Marvel&_ref=p-HP:m-SEARCH&_s=bm-fi-NZR-prteml-Marvel-launch
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
i have to say ive never understood this attatude...do people think razor and savea are designing this stuff?
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel Universe collab gear.
https://www2.allblackshop.com/?query=Marvel&_ref=p-HP:m-SEARCH&_s=bm-fi-NZR-prteml-Marvel-launch
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
i have to say ive never understood this attatude...do people think razor and savea are designing this stuff?
We are milking a brand (thats dying on the field before our very eyes) dry.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks 2025:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
If true, this all comes back to the original squad and Razor taking a giant shit on the form players of SR and instead bringing in the grossly undeserving.
So much for his vaunted man management and motivational skills.
Really?
Firstly, I can't see how this story is true - or if it is, it would have been a super select invite list at Taylors doing, just a couple of close mates, likely spur of the moment or something.
I just can't see the non-Cantab players hating Razor so much that they refuse the chance to honour a bloke like Taylor who has been an awesome AB and seems very well-liked by all.
We all like to hate on Ardie for his game, but can you imagine him saying to Codie "cheers for the invite bro, but fuck that, Razor sucks, I'm not coming"? DMac? Sami?
Just nah
Mods we have someone who isn't prepared to join the baying mob.
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@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
That’s because there were video games going on in one of the Blues players room, pie eating in one of the Chiefs players room, loud hip hop music coming from the Canes room and the poor Landers guys just searching for a room
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@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2025:
Rassie pays attention.
Whereas we appear to have a coach with ADHD.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
I have also heard this from a "sauce", didn't want to believe it so didn't post it, but sauce has been on the money before. I was also told some of the coaching group was there, which was more of where the protest was and that Taylor just copped the fall out. Still 100th game FFS
I've heard it now from someone else so there you go.
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@bayimports said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
I have also heard this from a "sauce", didn't want to believe it so didn't post it, but sauce has been on the money before. I was also told some of the coaching group was there, which was more of where the protest was and that Taylor just copped the fall out. Still 100th game FFS
I've heard it now from someone else so there you go.
That changes things immensely if this discussion of a rift is true.
It does sound like we've gone back to the pre-Henry days.
That's a scandal that NZRU could have avoided with correct succession processes. -
if we are real with ourselves, there were a LOT of calls on here for complete clearing of house and a fresh start after the Fozzie years...
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
If it was a select invite event, having only Crusaders in the room to celebrate becoming an All Black test centurion would seem a little odd..?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
If it was a select invite event, having only Crusaders in the room to celebrate becoming an All Black test centurion would seem a little odd..?
It's certainly a far cry from 1999 when Tony Brown had his party. Everyone got invited to that.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
If it was a select invite event, having only Crusaders in the room to celebrate becoming an All Black test centurion would seem a little odd..?
Ardie was there so were some others it was a small hotel room so not everyone attended.
They also had an event for Codie in the bar before this,I wonder where this stuff comes from my source is someone who was there.
I should add everyone attended the event in the bar for Codie. -
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.
i find this a little hard to believe given Taylor is a 10-year hundred-plus cap AB who has played for years with a huge number of the squad no matter where they are from. Given this is his 3rd AB coaching group, even if this turned out to be accurate, i would find it difficult to pin on the current environment. Maybe he's just a prick?
If it was a select invite event, having only Crusaders in the room to celebrate becoming an All Black test centurion would seem a little odd..?
Without this becoming a purple monkey dishwasher event, I did hear there were more than just crusaders, but predominantly crusaders, a few others did turn up, but a lot abstained due to certain coaches attending.
So slight difference but the core message was the same
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