All Blacks 2024
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@Snowy said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
@frugby said in All Blacks 2024:
@brodean said in All Blacks 2024:
Lomax and De Groot have the lowest metres per carry out of all props who have played meaningful minutes in the RC. Newell is pretty hopeless in this facet too.
They're great scrummagers and decent cleaners but they're hopeless with ball in hand. Early on in his career it seemed like this was a strong facet of Lomax but it ain't any more.
Of the starting tight five there isn't a single strong close in runner that can get the tight forwards going up the middle. Taylor makes most of his metres wider.
Metres per carry:
5.5 Tosi
3.6 Taylor
1.9 Darry
1.7 Tuipulotu
1.6 Tu'ungafasi
1.5 Vaa'i
1.3 Williams
1 Barrett
1 Aumua
0.7 Newell
0.5 De Groot
0.4 LomaxUnsurprisingly the 3 Blues tight forwards are strong in this facet but they are clearly out of favour.
There's a lack of variety in our game which makes us predictable. We went more up the middle against the Puma's at Eden Park and that was probably our best game of the year.
If you think the All Blacks problems lie in the tight five, I can't help you.
Think there is probably something also to be said for the fact that de Groot and Lomax's minutes come in the first half, where in theory the game is less open... and these stats are incredibly volatile, because one 15m run where a player gets put in a hole could affect this by up to a metre.
The tight 5 is the least of our worries, some of the props coming of the bench may also not have had any or very little carries due to what has been happening in the last 20 minutes.
That’s the twenty where we kick away the ball, drop it, or get a player or 2 sent off right?
yep
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris is Chay Finaki joining ABs ? That's the noise
I have not heard that mate.
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris is Chay Finaki joining ABs ? That's the noise
Well played sir you're right again. You cop a lot of flak on here, but at least you share what you hear.
Gee I wonder why Fihaki got called up......
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@george33 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Rumour is Chay Fihaki is called in
Good. The squad was missing a Crusader or two.
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@george33 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Rumour is Chay Fihaki is called in
Good. The squad was missing a Crusader or two.
@antipodean as the results say.
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@george33 so he has joined the squad confirmed
Good from you George
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@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
That you have to make an effort on both sides of the ball?
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@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
because he's got similar dimensions to Jordie (102kg over 192cm) and plays 12 unlike Stevenson?
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@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
because he's got similar dimensions to Jordie (102kg over 192cm) and plays 12 unlike Stevenson?
@darylmitchell said in All Blacks 2024:
@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
because he's got similar dimensions to Jordie (102kg over 192cm) and plays 12 unlike Stevenson?
What? Fihaki plays 12? Have I missed something? (Genuine question)
