All Blacks 2021

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[Tim]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-one-final-chance-for-all-blacks-to-impress-in-second-test-against-fiji/4QTCFWZPUVSNMJDYG5RUHKLISY/

Moody to miss RC?

The All Blacks name their Rugby Championship squad on Monday and with 36 players to be carried through, minimal change is expected. Blues prop Ofa Tuungafasi may be in line to return from his knee surgery which could threaten Ethan de Groot or perhaps Tyrel Lomax's place.

[Bovidae]

Like Cane, Moody is out for most of the year.

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[Chris]

@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:

Like Cane, Moody is out for most of the year.

I think Moody maybe back before the end of RC.
He will v be e named in the Canterbury NPC squad this week and will get a couple of runs for Canterbury so I hear.
Maybe back early September .

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[Bovidae]

@chris said in All Blacks 2021:

@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:

Like Cane, Moody is out for most of the year.

I think Moody maybe back before the end of RC.
He will v be e named in the Canterbury NPC squad this week and will get a couple of runs for Canterbury so I hear.
Maybe back early September .

Cane could be back in mid-Sept too, but will also need to play for BOP.

[Stargazer]

From the article below:

Foster also allayed any fears over the fitness of winger Will Jordan, who came off after 43 minutes against Fiji, with what the All Blacks coach confirmed was a hamstring issue.

"Will looks like he's got a grade one [hamstring strain] - it's just a small twinge, so we pulled him off early.

"He's trying to convince the medicos that he's had this before and played the next week, but there's no game next week, so he can settle down and get over it.

"He should be fine for our camp the following week in Christchurch."

They also seem to know what their first-choice XV is.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2021/07/rugby-all-blacks-coach-ian-foster-knows-strongest-team-after-test-wins-over-tonga-fiji.html

[Tim]

Is Tuungafasi back for the first Bledisloe game? He would be an upgrade on either side.

[Bovidae]

Ofa and Moody in the new squad.

Hookers
Asafo Aumua (24, Hurricanes / Wellington, 2)
Dane Coles (34, Hurricanes / Wellington, 76)
Codie Taylor (30, Crusaders / Canterbury, 58)

Props
Nepo Laulala (29, Blues / Counties Manukau, 31)
Tyrel Lomax (25, Hurricanes / Ta$man,
Joe Moody (32, Crusaders / Canterbury, 50)
Angus Ta’avao (31, Chiefs / Auckland, 16)
Karl Tu’inukuafe (28, Blues / North Harbour, 18)
Ofa Tuungafasi (29, Blues / Auckland, 39)

Locks
Scott Barrett (27, Crusaders / Taranaki, 42)
Brodie Retallick (30, Chiefs / Hawke’s Bay, 83)
Patrick Tuipulotu (28, Blues / Auckland, 38)
Tupou Vaa’i (21, Chiefs / Taranaki, 4)
Samuel Whitelock (32, Crusaders / Canterbury, 125) – captain

Loose Forwards
Ethan Blackadder (26, Crusaders / Ta$man, 2)
Shannon Frizell (27, Highlanders / Ta$man, 14)
Akira Ioane (26, Blues / Auckland, 4)
Luke Jacobson (24, Chiefs / Waikato, 5)
Dalton Papalii (23, Blues / Counties Manukau, 5)
Ardie Savea (27, Hurricanes / Wellington, 50)
Hoskins Sotutu (23, Blues / Counties Manukau, 6)

Backs

Halfbacks
TJ Perenara (29, Hurricanes / Wellington, 69)
Aaron Smith (32, Highlanders / Manawatu, 99)
Brad Weber (30, Chiefs / Hawke’s Bay, 9)

First five–eighths
Beauden Barrett (30, Blues / Taranaki, 91)
Richie Mo’unga (27, Crusaders / Canterbury, 24)

Midfielders
Braydon Ennor (23, Crusaders / Canterbury, 1)
David Havili (26, Crusaders / Ta$man, 5)
Rieko Ioane (24, Blues / Auckland, 37)
Anton Lienert-Brown (26, Chiefs / Waikato, 50)
Quinn Tupaea (22, Chiefs / Waikato, 1)

Outside backs
Jordie Barrett (24, Hurricanes / Taranaki, 25)
George Bridge (26, Crusaders / Canterbury, 12)
Will Jordan (22, Crusaders / Ta$man, 5)
Damian McKenzie (26, Chiefs / Waikato, 30)
Sevu Reece (23, Crusaders / Ta$man, 10)

[Kiwiwomble]

thought de groot did enough to be included

[Bovidae]

@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2021:

thought de groot dd enough to be included

Tuungafasi to be used as a LH again? Only 2 specialist LHs in the 6.

[Nepia]

@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:

Ofa and Moody in the new squad.

And TJP.

[antipodean]

@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2021:

thought de groot dd enough to be included

Especially over Lomax

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@nepia said in All Blacks 2021:

@bovidae said in All Blacks 2021:

Ofa and Moody in the new squad.

And TJP.

I hope Christie was fully aware that he was being used as a stopgap. He did well and has now lost the option of going north and playing for Scotland.
TJP should have been made to wait IMO.

[Bovidae]

TJP was always coming back.

Obviously Coles' calf injury can't be that serious. I would have ditched Lomax and kept de Groot.