All Blacks 2022
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in All Blacks 2022:
No DeGroot is he injured?
I'm pretty surprised too...
Maybe work rate is the question but I think he'll appear before the end of the season.@Mattasaurus his work rate is a heck of a lot higher than Karl T. Work rate has nothing to do with it. Foster is going to play a boring forwards game like last year. Props not getting involved at the breakdown and holding off. Bullshit gameplan. We will be get dominated once our locks get tired.
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We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
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@Stargazer Lomax forgotten about.
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We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:
We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.
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So Schmidt has had no input into selections right? He doesn’t start until after the Ireland series?
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We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:
We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
There's not much to applaud there. Form was obvious in the selection of the halfbacks. And RTS has a higher upside than Ennor does, who hasn't made a case to be an outside back deserving of selection.
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So Schmidt has had no input into selections right? He doesn’t start until after the Ireland series?
@Unite if they havent spoken to him and involved him in this process then they are morons.
He will have alot of IP on players and would know which types of players we will be best playing against certain players.
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Good possibility that this will be the starting tight five:
1 Tu’inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Whitelock
5 RetallickNot great.
@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
Good possibility that this will be the starting tight five:
1 Tu’inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Whitelock
5 RetallickNot great.
Big Karl's selection has blindsided me - so who knows. But, I was thinking:
Bower, Taylor, Laulala, Barrett and Retallick. Well, I'm hoping they pick Barrett to play 80 and use Retallick and Whitelock in tandem.
I'd quite like to see Ofa instead of Nepo - but, only if his scrumming vs de Groot was an aberration.
No need for the red card jokes.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:
We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2022:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:
We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.
I still think MMT’s time will come. Big fan of his.
Put it down to more Chiefs bias
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2022:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks 2022:
We’ve been calling for the selectors to be a bit more bold and it could’ve been quite easy to go back to Perenara and Weber but they’ve gone for two younger players.
Could’ve selected Ennor but they’re taking a punt on an ex-leaguie who’s played in all reality not a lot of footy.
I applaud that.
My main quibble is PGS instead of someone like MMT.
I still think MMT’s time will come. Big fan of his.
Put it down to more Chiefs bias
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Hodgeman/Robinson should feel a little hard done by, not sure what else they need to do, I hope this doesn't fuck with their heads before the weekend.
I would have preferred Sullivan over Havs as he has future written all over him whereas Havs at best is second rate cover. -
So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.
@number9 said in All Blacks 2022:
So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.
100% biggest suprise for me too - playing looked like a guy who had no chance of getting in the AB's too.
I know they like older props who are 'mature'.. but I reckon if you're good enough you're good enough and this is a selection that could bite us in the arse next year. Should have had one youthful player in there -
@number9 said in All Blacks 2022:
So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.
100% biggest suprise for me too - playing looked like a guy who had no chance of getting in the AB's too.
I know they like older props who are 'mature'.. but I reckon if you're good enough you're good enough and this is a selection that could bite us in the arse next year. Should have had one youthful player in there@WillieTheWaiter Aidan Ross is only 26, so plenty of years ahead of him whilst having a decent body of work under his belt.
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With those prop selections we don't seem to be addressing the lack of ball running ability problem from last season.
Is this going to be more of the same the backs taken out of the game by us not getting over the gain line up front.
PGS there for that I suppose but won't start ahead of Ardie,RTS,LF will not get much game time it looks a lot like last year to me.The 23 looks like it will not change from last season. -
@number9 said in All Blacks 2022:
So Big Karl plays maybe 2 hours all season, is leaving for Europe and Fozz the fuckwit still selects him. Fucking idiot.
100% biggest suprise for me too - playing looked like a guy who had no chance of getting in the AB's too.
I know they like older props who are 'mature'.. but I reckon if you're good enough you're good enough and this is a selection that could bite us in the arse next year. Should have had one youthful player in there
