All Blacks 2021

Kiwiwomble

@bones said in All Blacks 2021:

@crucial we saw a couple of glimpses of what he was doing last year, so the potential is still there. He gets hit but just kinda keeps going as though he's wading through waist high water. Give him a game or two to get back used to rugby and throwing a slightly larger body around, I reckon we'll start to see his quality.

yeah, he definitely had a couple of runs (strides) with some tacklers hanging off or bouncing off him

I hope he'll get to at least train with the AB's, we see some people really respond to those kinds of opportunities

KiwiMurph

Yep fitness permitting get PPP in. He was pencilled in last year before his injury. Thought he looked really sharp on the weekend considering how long it's been since he played.

Kiwiwomble

I think our scrum looked a lot better with him in there too

Frank

A massive amount of excellent of loose forwards, not so much with the locks.

booboo

@booboo said in All Blacks 2021:

@cgrant said in All Blacks 2021:

@sparky said in All Blacks 2021:

My first stab at naming an AB team in 2021

Moody ( By a country mile)

Taylor

Laulala

Whitelock

Scott Barrett (when's Lurch back?)

Very open. Maybe Big Red.

Sam Cane (c)

Ardie Savea (Hoskins seems to have second season blues)

Aaron Smith

Richie Mo'unga

Caleb Clarke (Needs to up his work rate)

David Havili

Jack Goodhue

Will Jordan

Jordie Barrett

Aumua (If he gets fit)

Karl T

Ofa T

Very open. Patrick T? Dunshea?

Dalton Papalii

Fakatava

DMac

Reiko Ioane

19 : PPP ?

Vaa'i?

Short memories peeps

mofitzy_

Interestingly Brodie has apparently trimmed down quite a bit in Japan according to Wayne Smith on the Breakdown, while this will be a good thing for his fitness and speed, seems like he may need to bulk up a bit when he returns.

I reckon there are a few locks who can't be far off, however with SW, SB, PT and TV, I'm guessing we won't see anyone other than a WTG role.

pakman

@mofitzy_ “The game’s different over there, if you watch Kobe play at the moment and see Brodie Retallick – he’s down to 117 kgs because he’s got to be able to keep up with the game. He’s magnificent, he’s absolutely magnificent,” he added.

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Dan54

@booboo I reckon Vaa'i is going to be bloody good, he not too bad now , and he just out of his cot really!

Mind you I always been a PPP fan too, and think he gots lots to like too

Daffy Jaffy

The sacred All Blacks mauri stone has been handed over to the All Blacks Experience at SkyCity in central Auckland, where it will stay whenever the All Blacks are not playing.
The All Blacks Experience team will act as kaitiaki of the precious taonga, which accompanies the All Blacks wherever they play, at home or overseas. The stone embodies the team’s mana and offers them protection in their travels and on the field.

antipodean

How long has that been a thing?

taniwharugby

@antipodean ages as!

Kiwiwomble

@antipodean said in All Blacks 2021:

How long has that been a thing?

have to say i thought the same thing

Kruse

@antipodean said in All Blacks 2021:

How long has that been a thing?

Since the first ever newspaper article about Aura possibly being lost, I guess.

Kirwan

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:

@antipodean ages as!

Really? I've never heard of it before. Interesting what passes me by sometimes.

taniwharugby

@kirwan yeah I have no idea either

Snowy

The sevens team have one I think, greenstone. It goes to the Comm games and Olympics with them or something. That would have started about 20 years ago. Had no idea the ABs had one too.

canefan

@kirwan said in All Blacks 2021:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2021:

@antipodean ages as!

Really? I've never heard of it before. Interesting what passes me by sometimes.

Is it named aura?

cgrant

Team I'd like to see vs Italy :

J. Barrett
Jordan
P. Umaga-Jensen
Tupaea
Clarke
Mo'unga
Smith
A. Ioane
Papali'i
Robinson
Parkinson
Vai'i
Lomax
Taylor
Moody

Sub :
Aumua
Ross
Laulala
Whitelock
A. Savea
Weber
R. Ioane
McKenzie / Havili

The Italians are not a menace so it's a nice opportunity to try a few new players, particularly in midfield where no perfect combination has been found so far, at lock where PPP and Vai'i could show what they are able to do, and at THP where Lomax could gain more confidence.
Aidan Ross is the form LHP and could start from the bench.
I am hesitating between Havili and Tupaea at second five. The latter is beginning to develop strongly while Havili is a talented all round player.

Bones

@cgrant haaa I didn't read the bit about "against Italy" and was about to shit the bed.

I'd take Havili, but otherwise looks pretty interesting.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks 2021