All Blacks XV 2022

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim Looks good. Nice mix of experience and up and comers.

[Duluth]

Heem is a surprise

[Tim]

Gutted for Hodgman.

[Bovidae]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Basically the Crusaders B team forwards. Hmm.

So Robertson can't use them?

A bit under-whelmed with some of those selections.

[Tim]

@Bovidae Dominic Gallaher, and three Crusaders hookers in the two squads. No thanks.

[number9]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Gutted for Hodgman.

Has definitely fallen out of favour with Foster. There are other teams in this fucking country besides the Crusadera and Canterbury.

[SouthernMann]

33 year old Bryce Heem. WTF

[Tim]

@SouthernMann Seems crazy.

[Duluth]

@number9 said in All Blacks XV:

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Gutted for Hodgman.

Has definitely fallen out of favour with Foster.

There has to be a story behind this?

He played pretty well when he got selected for the AB's. If anything he's in better form now than when he got selected

[number9]

What the hell does Eklund have to do? Buy a Red and Black jersey?????

[Bovidae]

No Stevenson either. That may tell us something...

Or PGS.

[KiwiMurph]

@number9 said in All Blacks XV:

What the hell does Eklund have to do? Buy a Red and Black jersey?????

Not have an absolute mare in the Super Rugby Final would have helped his chances.

Good player but I can see why they don't want him for higher honours - to me he wouldn't have the size for test rugby.

[KiwiMurph]

I would imagine Jason Ryan would have had a heavy influence in the make up of the forwards - he would know those Cantab boys very well.

[Chris]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

@Bovidae Dominic Gallaher, and three Crusaders hookers in the two squads. No thanks.

To be fair Dom Gardner has been outstanding for Canterbury in the NPC.

[Bovidae]

So a top XV of:

Ross
Aumua
Ta'avao
Tuipulotu
Dickson
MMT
Harmon
Jacobson
Weber/TJP
Gatland
Lam
Nankivell
Sullivan/Aumua
Telea
DMac

[Tim]

Those are some very average midfield players in this squad.

[Crucial]

Good to see Roigard identified.

Geez PGS has been treated rough. Shouldn't have really been selected in the first place but now he is screwed on representing elsewhere. Did they get excited by early Super form? I thought it was well known not to select on that .

Razor will be laughing his head off knowing he is preparing a team against his own B side players knowing full well all of their weaknesses.

[Crucial]

@Tim said in All Blacks XV:

Those are some very average midfield players in this squad.

Yep. Sullivan and Nakivell need to be a hell of a lot better than they were against Ireland.

[Kiwiwomble]

i actually thought Nareki might have been a shout, obviously been injured but hes back now and was dangerous in the first game back

there's more...."experience" than i would have thought, was expecting more up and comers

[KiwiMurph]

@Crucial said in All Blacks XV:

Geez PGS has been treated rough. Shouldn't have really been selected in the first place but now he is screwed on representing elsewhere. Did they get excited by early Super form? I thought it was well known not to select on that .

To me this screams a Plumtree pick.