All Blacks 2024
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@Duluth Oh shit sorry I'm in the wrong thread.
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We didn't win the last World Cup with these guys onboard, why are we bringing them back even older than they were before. Trust the guys you have playing in New Zealand Razor. What a crock of shit.
@Canes4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
We didn't win the last World Cup with these guys onboard, why are we bringing them back even older than they were before. Trust the guys you have playing in New Zealand Razor. What a crock of shit.
There's plenty of examples in AB history of an irreplaceable player being replaced. Give new players a chance and do some coaching
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Unfortunately it's the right thread
We have an AB coach who doesn't want to coach new players
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Unfortunately it's the right thread
We have an AB coach who doesn't want to coach new players
I'm confused. Aren't the assistant coaches the ones doing the coaching?
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No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to me -
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Unfortunately it's the right thread
We have an AB coach who doesn't want to coach new players
I'm confused. Aren't the assistant coaches the ones doing the coaching?
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Unfortunately it's the right thread
We have an AB coach who doesn't want to coach new players
I'm confused. Aren't the assistant coaches the ones doing the coaching?
that entirely depends on the narrative you are pushing
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No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to me@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai as a stop gap measure until someone better comes along such as Holland to go with Barrett and Lord.
We have to play without Whitelock eventually, why not start the process now?
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@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai as a stop gap measure until someone better comes along such as Holland to go with Barrett and Lord.
We have to play without Whitelock eventually, why not start the process now?
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai as a stop gap measure until someone better comes along such as Holland to go with Barrett and Lord.
We have to play without Whitelock eventually, why not start the process now?
Maybe Whitelock in the environment they see valuable where they could add a youngster to the squad, who better to learn off than Whitelock
Maybe use him to bring on the younger locks bring them in to camp at times.
Maybe more to it than the playing side and maybe that is their thinking over BB.
All speculation but I see merits in it. -
This is what the thought process looks like "Crusaders aren't playing well in NZ, so better pick overseas Crusaders"
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
This is what the thought process looks like "Crusaders aren't playing well in NZ, so better pick overseas Crusaders"
He does seem to be focusing on the ex-Crusader players
But he's also undermining super rugby. By emphasising and elevating what's missing. It's the last thing SRP needs now.
His bosses need to have a talk and tell him to get back and stop the bullshit.
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No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to me -
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai as a stop gap measure until someone better comes along such as Holland to go with Barrett and Lord.
We have to play without Whitelock eventually, why not start the process now?
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai
That lot aren't going to scare anyone. Doubt they would make any other tier 1 team.
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No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to me -
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to me@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to meI would rate Justin Sangster, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Zach Gallagher, Josh Beehre, over those locks.
Strange (especially - he's never been anything above average, even at Super level.)
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@Chris Darry has had conversations with Razor I've been informed but injury won't help the situation
@george33 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris Darry has had conversations with Razor I've been informed but injury won't help the situation
So has Zach Gallagher and Jamie Hannah, doesn't always mean selection now, maybe work on for future selection
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to meI would rate Justin Sangster, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Zach Gallagher, Josh Beehre, over those locks.
Strange (especially - he's never been anything above average, even at Super level.)
@ruggabee said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
No different than Barrett coming back although he is well past it at least Whitelock was and still is performing.
It is obvious the coaching staff do not rate the locking stocks playing in this country very highly ,maybe it is stop gap for a couple of years until the young ones develop and harden up a bit more.
Lock is one position the older harder players seem to dominate.
Vaai is not a test lock,Holland isn't available yet,Lord is coming through but is injured a lot.
Parkinson,Strange,Darry,MSR,IWL not test options in my opinion.Looks a bit bare to meI would rate Justin Sangster, Naitoa Ah Kuoi, Zach Gallagher, Josh Beehre, over those locks.
I still don't see a ready to go Test lock there yet.
I think the schedule this year is brutal both RC tests in SA, tough end of year tour, England at home.
Maybe the coaching staff see too many young locks being ground up in a bit of a meat grinder in that brutal schedule because they are not physically tough enough yet. -
@george33 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris Darry has had conversations with Razor I've been informed but injury won't help the situation
So has Zach Gallagher and Jamie Hannah, doesn't always mean selection now, maybe work on for future selection
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Agree with others it's pretty concerning that Razor is focusing so much on players in the twilight of their career, even those already overseas. He's meant to be the young innovative coach that gets teams playing greater than the sum of their parts, Foster was meant to be the coach that couldn't move on from aging players. Suggests to me that Razor is worried about the big expectations on him (same as any AB coach) and so he is wanting some insurance from players that have been there before. His lack of international experience showing through perhaps.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
This is what the thought process looks like "Crusaders aren't playing well in NZ, so better pick overseas Crusaders"
He does seem to be focusing on the ex-Crusader players
But he's also undermining super rugby. By emphasising and elevating what's missing. It's the last thing SRP needs now.
His bosses need to have a talk and tell him to get back and stop the bullshit.
@Winger said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
This is what the thought process looks like "Crusaders aren't playing well in NZ, so better pick overseas Crusaders"
He does seem to be focusing on the ex-Crusader players
But he's also undermining super rugby. By emphasising and elevating what's missing. It's the last thing SRP needs now.
His bosses need to have a talk and tell him to get back and stop the bullshit.
I don't know. As a professional coach it's his job to win and if that means convincing some guys to come back to achieve that then so be it. It's not like other AB coaches in the past have not done the same. Wayne Smith went to France to lure SBW back if memory serves.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai
That lot aren't going to scare anyone. Doubt they would make any other tier 1 team.
@akan004 They're not, but as stop gap measures, they'll do.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Chris I agree with what you're saying, and I'm happy to have a Tuipulotu, Stange, Vaai as a stop gap measure until someone better comes along such as Holland to go with Barrett and Lord.
We have to play without Whitelock eventually, why not start the process now?
Maybe Whitelock in the environment they see valuable where they could add a youngster to the squad, who better to learn off than Whitelock
Maybe use him to bring on the younger locks bring them in to camp at times.
Maybe more to it than the playing side and maybe that is their thinking over BB.
All speculation but I see merits in it.@Chris Fair point, and we all love Whitelock, I personally would like to see us move on but as you said, on the other end of the argument, there are merits to it as well.
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You know I almost thought Razor would have registered enough credit in the bank (based off his resume & history of proven success at every level - when compared to Foster) so for people to question his decisions before the All Blacks have even played a single game yet seems odd to me. At least when Foster was appointed in 2020 most of us actually gave him a chance to prove us all wrong (based on results) in his first season - so we could then made a fair judgment of his decisions. Yet people on here are already spouting off on here with such conviction that this decision by Razor is objectively the wrong one when we haven't even seen the outcomes yet, lol.
