All Blacks 2021
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@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2021:
@bobily2 except if those players are holding off committing to Tonga because they're still hoping to play for the AB's
I'm not talking about a theoretical benefit, I'm saying that they are benefitted already, as shown by the number of Tongan test players who are NZ-born.
@bobily2 but isn't that the rumor? that the better tongan qualified players (nz born or otherwise) didn't want to commit because they want to hold off and have a shot at the AB's...hence all the talk of club players and tradies?
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@bobily2 but isn't that the rumor? that the better tongan qualified players (nz born or otherwise) didn't want to commit because they want to hold off and have a shot at the AB's...hence all the talk of club players and tradies?
@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2021:
@bobily2 but isn't that the rumor? that the better tongan qualified players (nz born or otherwise) didn't want to commit because they want to hold off and have a shot at the AB's...hence all the talk of club players and tradies?
This game isn't really a good example of the usual, so I'm not sure it's worth looking at too intently (except for the people who organised it - it was foreseeable that a lot of the European players wouldn't be available).
My comments were more in relation to a lot of people wanting to change eligibility rules (as a country) based on this (perhaps more on FB than here).
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@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
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@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
Fifita.
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@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
Fifita.
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
Fifita.
If it wasn’t the game plan to have roaming wide like Read was in some tests then the the coaches are idiots. Why on earth would you bring in Fifita and not use his best abilities?
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@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
Fifita.
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:
@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
Fifita.
not liking the game plan, and not being in the game plan are not the same thigns. I'm with @nepia - it used to be Coles, then Read, and now others (Dalts at the weekend)
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Tonga and other PI countries would benefit more from being able to use ex-ABs and Wallabies after a stand-down period, something Kefu alluded to. But there are a couple of Home unions who are vocal in their opposition to that. The same countries who have/had plenty of NZ and SA-born players in their team.
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@crucial said in All Blacks 2021:
@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@kiwimurph that doesn't really strike me as anything new though? Squire, Fifita, and plenty of others (I can't remember the one who got the most grief) have got grief for it in the past. Read used to do it a fair bit before he got cake.
With Read in his peak it was planned. With some others it was shirking.
I don't think that is true in the slightest. A loosie doesn't just stand out wide in a test if it's not the game plan.
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@nepia yea this is retarded. every team in NZ plays either 1-3-3-1 or slight variations of that.
so at any one time you have 2 guys playing that spot out wide@muddyriver said in All Blacks 2021:
yea this is retarded. every team in NZ plays either 1-3-3-1 or slight variations of that.
so at any one time you have 2 guys playing that spot out wideI'm amazed at how many people think this is something new
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@muddyriver said in All Blacks 2021:
yea this is retarded. every team in NZ plays either 1-3-3-1 or slight variations of that.
so at any one time you have 2 guys playing that spot out wideI'm amazed at how many people think this is something new
@duluth said in All Blacks 2021:
@muddyriver said in All Blacks 2021:
yea this is retarded. every team in NZ plays either 1-3-3-1 or slight variations of that.
so at any one time you have 2 guys playing that spot out wideI'm amazed at how many people think this is something new
From 2018 and we’d been discussing it for ages before then.
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@stargazer I'd like to see him get a run - I thought he was a good chance of being picked in the first place.
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Most dominant loosehead in SR Aotearoa IMO.
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@yeetyaah said in All Blacks 2021:
Ross should have been there from the start IMO
Bower was poor yesterday. I thought De Groot went okay. Ross should have been there ahead of both from the start.
@sparky I'm shocked that Bower was ever considered a test option in the first place. Nothing against the guy, but he's nowhere near AB standard.
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@tim good stuff, Savea is our best loose forward so that will only improve things. ALB coming in for Ioane at centre will sharpen up the backs aswell.
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Foster fattening the players up. Might have been appropriate 30 years ago but pro athletes shouldn't be overdoing the dairy.
https://twitter.com/AllBlacks/status/1414107906857836547?s=19
