All Blacks 2026
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2026:
I can just imagine the talk amongst the players at the various SR trainings over these last few days.
Going to be hadd go build hype for our domestic comp when the national body is imploding.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2026:
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@hikastags said in All Blacks 2026:
Ardie going to Europe is complete bullshit from his agent.
Leinster can't afford him (if they're paying him anywhere near the EUR 500k they're paying Jordie and Rieko.)
The Top 14 season is 30+ games long and get paid less than in Japan.They'd also expect him to hit a ruck as a loose forward.
Not many loose forwards hit rucks, that is what tighties or second arriving players do.
Guess who should be the arriving players Dan? McCaw hit a fuckton of rucks to secure ball. So did Cane, Papali'i, Kaino, Messam, Masoe, Kronfeld et fucking cetera.
Yep and McCaw retired 10 years ago, before the jackler winning the ball first became the seeming be all an be all. I not saying they hit none, but these jokers all played in a different era. You watch the game these days , midfield backs get as many turnovers than a lot of forwards etc.. It's more important for loosies (and most players ) to not tie themselves up in rucks for no reason. The average ruck is won in 3 seconds in test rugby these days, and you get there after that just take a pillar position , or fill out your backline. Most tests have over 100 very few players in any test hit more than 15-20 at very most. So a lot of players don't waste time there.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
@canefan i still dont really know what that means
Nope. But let's walk together and try to find out.... It'll be quite a journey....
I alway just assumed it meant consistent and hardworking impact defensively and offensively (but that may be my bias thinking it was aimed at Akira and Hos).
Let's walk together...on both sides of the ball.
So finally Razor and his assistants get their wish: if the NZR actually has told them to walk..much what i had assumed....but has always sounded like marketing BS...or someone trying to invent a saying
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2026:
NZR needs to make a public statement ASAP, even if it's just to delay a real announcement by 24 hours.
Imagine how many lawyers will need to sign out any public statement. As well as the operational staff, Board and anyone mentioned.
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
There is a suggestion that Brown might have a release clause in the event that Joseph is the AB coach.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks 2026:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
please be true
I read the same thing, but contract release at great cost, somewhere else.
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@SouthernMann Not sure if it would change anything, but I meant something like making a statement about making another statement at a later date, rather than confirming anything.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2026:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
There is a suggestion that Brown might have a release clause in the event that Joseph is the AB coach.
i wouldnt be surprised, he was always clear he only wanted to do it with JJ, turned down fozzie and razor didn;t he?
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If Brown is getting released from SA it would have to be for Joseph being offered the head coaching role, no?
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2026:
@SouthernMann Not sure if it would change anything, but I meant something like making a statement about making another statement at a later date, rather than confirming anything.
Even those cam be hugely problematic and can take a lot of oversight and approval.
There is a lot of personal capital at stake with this shitshow.
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@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:
@Smudge said in All Blacks 2026:
Just a shame that The Breakdown isn't on air at the moment to really dig into the issues...
They can fuck right off. As can Ross Karl, Kirst and Beav and co.
We were getting better reportage and opinion on forums like this than from the pro's.
The dogs on the street could see all was not well in camp. Strange squad omissions, 2 coaches quitting mid tenure, fringe players going overseas almost exasperatedly (Stevenson, Sotutu, Akira).
And the media (im looking at you Mils, Goldie, Bryn Hall and Parsons in particular), just hand waved everything away as development, and alignment tweaks and messaging, and learnings other corporate word salad nonsense that fucked me right off.
We have walked like a duck and quacked like a duck for years now. The coaches were shit, and a fair few of the players are shit too. We all know it, and in the likes of Beaudy's case, he knows it himself.
All we need is an adult in the room to tell a few home truths and toss out some of the garbage.
Razor should have dropped Savea and a Barrett early doors to let everyone else know that nobody was safe from the cutting room floor. But he ran it on "the feels" and look what has happened.
> Razor is at home alone with a tube sock while Rassie fucks the prom queen.
Nobody will ever care Razor was nice and nobody will ever care Rassie was a dickhead.
The ledger and trophy cabinet is all that matters.
There’s a good meme in this
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks 2026:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
please be true
I can't handle this much good news.
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2026:
I'd love to see the smile on Sotutu's face right now.
Any chance he can cancel that Newcastle contract?
Would he even be interested in doing that and staying now does anyone reckon?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
If Brown is getting released from SA it would have to be for Joseph being offered the head coaching role, no?
thats what i wold have thought, and seeing Razor had been announced when Tony went to SA they wouldnt have been crazy to think it would be a long shot for an AB coach to get the sack within a couple of years
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2026:
I know one of the upper managers at Asics NZ (who sponsor many Super + AB players).
The sponsorship circles have heard rumours it's Jamie Jo & Tony Brown coming in.
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Ok so this what I have amongst all the rumours etc take it for what it is.
The Board is being presented the Review findings today.
Razor has not officially been sacked yet the Board has to vote on it.
Probably will happen as the Board normally goes with the recommendation's from the Review.
Razor has asked to present to the board before any final decisions are made.
From a good source but there is many different stories out there.
