All Blacks 2026
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:
@chchfanatic
So the rumor is basically Ardie is a wife cheating, cliquey, devious backstabber.Sounds about right.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2026:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:
@chchfanatic
So the rumor is basically Ardie is a wife cheating, cliquey, devious backstabber.Sounds about right.
Actually open to him being a bit of a piston wristed gibbon and doing some or all of those things.
But.....David Kirk ain't that dumb.
My bet is Razor and Hansen, when asked how they'd address the unsatisfactory trajectory of the team gave them a bunch of word salad nonsense. You know, just like they do in every interview.
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@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:
But.....David Kirk ain't that dumb.
I really hope not,we will see how smart or dumb he has been when this all plays out.
Maybe a month before a coach is appointed that doesn't seem smart if true.The SR has started before a coach is appointed if that is true it points to someone overseas getting the job.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2026:
Maybe a month before a coach is appointed that doesn't seem smart if true.
The SR has started before a coach is appointed if that is true it points to someone overseas getting the job.
I dont see the rush. They key is to get it right. ABs dont play til July. Whilst it may be disruptive to Super the AB role takes more importance.
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@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2026:
@allblackfan2 said in All Blacks 2026:
All fence sitting, middle of the road answers. And I don't blame them for it.
True, although Williams slightly oversold his lack of knowledge, "I just run into people" - yeah, obvously.
I get it though, they are all gonna act like they are totally in the dark about what went down. I would do the same tbh.
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@reprobate said in All Blacks 2026:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2026:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2026:
I haven’t read the last week or so posts. But this is what I’ve heard. Still rumours but from a very reliable source.
I don’t think the Dalton rumours are true.
Ardie is the main instigator behind all of it.
Not sure if it’s well known in the hurricanes area. But ardie likes to play around. Something happened on tour somewhere and razor found out. He gave him a right serve and Ardie took offence to it and it all started from there. Ardie only hangs with who ardie wants to hang with. Kava session in his room and no outsiders. They were all told to give bad reviews etc and that’s how it all started.
How it led to the sacking I don’t know.
Again just rumours and may not be true.this is my new truth and i will not be talked out of it
I'm totally on board with 95% of it, but I'm not prepared to accept that the Dalton rumours are false.
I'm also sceptical of the statement "They were all told to give bad reviews etc and that’s how it all started."
I'm hoping our All Blacks have a little more spine than that!
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The plot thickens, the sauce is stirred a little more. Is Williams a part of or honorary guest of/at the Kava club?
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at least one mentor role may have less candidates. Hooper reckons Joe will mentor the Wallabies from afar: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360893736/australias-players-boss-justin-harrison-takes-aim-joe-schmidts-wallabies-selection-policy
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:
The plot thickens, the sauce is stirred a little more. Is Williams a part of or honorary guest of/at the Kava club?
I'm pretty sure Williams was in the god squad/kava video so maybe Ardie's messiah powers are overstated?
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2026:
I dont see the rush. They key is to get it right. ABs dont play til July. Whilst it may be disruptive to Super the AB role takes more importance.
Neither do I.
All the HC candidates are already employed, and probably more important, all the assistants they’ll be wanting are as well.
Guna take time to work thru all of that; who they can get, and who they can’t.
All the current Assistants are still in place.
NZR don’t really give an F about SR; pulling coaches out of that comp half way thru, won’t bother them in the least.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
I'm also sceptical of the statement "They were all told to give bad reviews etc and that’s how it all started."
I'm hoping our All Blacks have a little more spine than that!
Very sceptical, all sounds extra "gossipy."
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@Dan54 said in All Blacks 2026:
Even in jest some of the crap posted on here is getting extreme
I really have to keep checking it's not a women's knitting circle who have had their forum closed down for being too stupid.
Yeah, women are really stupid.
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I wouldn’t discount sauce from chchfanatic.
He’s provided plenty of stuff over the years which has been shown to be legit. In this case, I don’t buy the part about Paps, we’ve even seen that reported in the media, but I’m prepared to buy that there will be some truth to other parts of what he has been told.
It sounds incredibly toxic if that is what is being said.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2026:
I wouldn’t discount sauce from chchfanatic.
He’s provided plenty of stuff over the years which has been shown to be legit. In this case, I don’t buy the part about Paps, we’ve even seen that reported in the media, but I’m prepared to buy that there will be some truth to other parts of what he has been told.
It sounds incredibly toxic if that is what is being said.
That's just Christchurch for you , the place they used to abuse All blacks who weren't from the area!I would always discount what chchfanatic posts after that post.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks 2026:
I wouldn’t discount sauce from chchfanatic.
He’s provided plenty of stuff over the years which has been shown to be legit. In this case, I don’t buy the part about Paps, we’ve even seen that reported in the media, but I’m prepared to buy that there will be some truth to other parts of what he has been told.
It sounds incredibly toxic if that is what is being said.
chchfanatic has sources close to the people involved,He has been spot on when quoting his source most of the time..
All very well for some people to bag his post who don't know where his sources come from they would look stupid if they knew. -
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@reprobate said in All Blacks 2026:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2026:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks 2026:
I haven’t read the last week or so posts. But this is what I’ve heard. Still rumours but from a very reliable source.
I don’t think the Dalton rumours are true.
Ardie is the main instigator behind all of it.
Not sure if it’s well known in the hurricanes area. But ardie likes to play around. Something happened on tour somewhere and razor found out. He gave him a right serve and Ardie took offence to it and it all started from there. Ardie only hangs with who ardie wants to hang with. Kava session in his room and no outsiders. They were all told to give bad reviews etc and that’s how it all started.
How it led to the sacking I don’t know.
Again just rumours and may not be true.this is my new truth and i will not be talked out of it
I'm totally on board with 95% of it, but I'm not prepared to accept that the Dalton rumours are false.
I'm also sceptical of the statement "They were all told to give bad reviews etc and that’s how it all started."
I'm hoping our All Blacks have a little more spine than that!
Yeah, I could only see one or two quite junior and non-influential people in the team falling for that.
