All Blacks XV 2024

[brodean]

@Canes4life

Pretty good.

I don't see Sotutu or Sullivan getting selected though.

[Canes4life]

@brodean said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life

Pretty good.

I don't see Sotutu or Sullivan getting selected though.

If Sotutu doesn’t make the AB XV, Razor really is an idiot.

[African Monkey]

@Canes4life said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@brodean said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life

Pretty good.

I don't see Sotutu or Sullivan getting selected though.

If Sotutu doesn’t make the AB XV, Razor really is an idiot.

He may as well head north, there's no future for him in NZ if he does.

[Duluth]

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@brodean said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life

Pretty good.

I don't see Sotutu or Sullivan getting selected though.

If Sotutu doesn’t make the AB XV, Razor really is an idiot.

He may as well head north, there's no future for him in NZ if he does.

If that happens he should try to get an early release. Perhaps England would want him in November

[African Monkey]

@Duluth said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@brodean said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@Canes4life

Pretty good.

I don't see Sotutu or Sullivan getting selected though.

If Sotutu doesn’t make the AB XV, Razor really is an idiot.

He may as well head north, there's no future for him in NZ if he does.

If that happens he should try to get an early release. Perhaps England would want him in November

He still has to wait until the end of next year before becoming elligible for England/Fiji.

[Duluth]

@African-Monkey

True. I thought it had been 3 years already

I believe his NZ contract ends at the same time

[Mr Fish]

Razor said his toughest decision was leaving Sotutu out of the All Blacks in July so would be hard to see him missing out on the XV unless he's not been answering phone calls again...

Razor's also confirmed 36 and 29 for the two EOYT squads and that some players will be shared (whether that means 65 total or some of the players count in both is unclear, but assuming the former...)

[sparky]

I know that All Blacks XV are playing Munster. Do they have any other fixtures?

[nostrildamus]

Sotutu is a quality 8, NZ rugby should work hard to keep him.

[Mr Fish]

@sparky said in All Blacks XV 2024:

I know that All Blacks XV are playing Munster. Do they have any other fixtures?

Georgia the same week the ABs play Ireland.

[cgrant]

A bolter for the AB XV could be Waikato's Xavier Saifoloi (195cm, 114 kg), a bruising blindside.
My selection :

Props : Kaivelata, Numia, Dyer, Renata, Lauaki
Hookers : McAllister, Riccitelli,
Locks : IWL, Holland, McWhannel,
LF : Haig, Saifoloi, Segner, Kirifi, Stodart, Suafoa (I hope Lakai will be with the ABs)
Scrum halves : Fakatava, Christie
1st Fives : Jacomb, Millar
Midfielders : Lam, Telea, Higgins, B. Sullivan
Back three : Tavatavanawai, Naholo, Banks, Z. Sullivan, ENS

[Bovidae]

@cgrant said in All Blacks XV 2024:

A bolter for the AB XV could be Waikato's Xavier Saifoloi (195cm, 114 kg), a bruising blindside.

He is certainly looking better with more NPC games. However, I'd be surprised to see any non-SR players in the squad.

You would have to think that the likes of Fihaki will be selected for this squad if he has been brought into the ABs as injury cover.

[Bovidae]

From the NZH:

With Clayton McMillan to lead a 29-man All Blacks XV squad for matches against Munster and Georgia.

Also:

Addressing whether 21-year-old Lakai will be included in his squad, Robertson indicated he would bounce between the All Blacks and All Blacks XV.

[Machpants]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks XV 2024:

From the NZH:

With Clayton McMillan to lead a 29-man All Blacks XV squad for matches against Munster and Georgia.

Also:

Addressing whether 21-year-old Lakai will be included in his squad, Robertson indicated he would bounce between the All Blacks and All Blacks XV.

That's good stuff, basically apprenticing with the main team but also getting international game time with the XV

[gt12]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@cgrant said in All Blacks XV 2024:

A bolter for the AB XV could be Waikato's Xavier Saifoloi (195cm, 114 kg), a bruising blindside.

He is certainly looking better with more NPC games. However, I'd be surprised to see any non-SR players in the squad.

You would have to think that the likes of Fihaki will be selected for this squad if he has been brought into the ABs as injury cover.

Can we sign him and Mathis for Super?

If we are prepared to let some of the older heads go, we could have some old heads in our top loose trio and a young trio coming behind them in Saifoloi, Mathis, Wramping.

[Bovidae]

@gt12 Better to discuss in the Chiefs thread but apart from Jacobson, who is 27, the rest of the Chiefs loose forwards are <25 yrs old. Big, mobile loose forwards are gold though.

[gt12]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks XV 2024:

@gt12 Better to discuss in the Chiefs thread but apart from Jacobson, who is 27, the rest of the Chiefs loose forwards are <25 yrs old. Big, mobile loose forwards are gold though.

I think two of the three have potential for the ABXV (that's my attempt to stay on topic @Duluth).

I wonder where Ah Kuoi fits in? Also a contender for this team?

We aren't bringing back the old man from Taranaki this year @Bovidae ?

[pakman]

@sparky said in All Blacks XV 2024:

I know that All Blacks XV are playing Munster. Do they have any other fixtures?

Harlequins/Northampton/Bath?

[pakman]

@cgrant said in All Blacks XV 2024:

A bolter for the AB XV could be Waikato's Xavier Saifoloi (195cm, 114 kg), a bruising blindside.
My selection :

Props : Kaivelata, Numia, Dyer, Renata, Lauaki
Hookers : McAllister, Riccitelli,
Locks : IWL, Holland, McWhannel,
LF : Haig, Saifoloi, Segner, Kirifi, Stodart, Suafoa (I hope Lakai will be with the ABs)
Scrum halves : Fakatava, Christie
1st Fives : Jacomb, Millar
Midfielders : Lam, Telea, Higgins, B. Sullivan
Back three : Tavatavanawai, Naholo, Banks, Z. Sullivan, ENS

If Narewa and Love aren’t in AB 36 they’d have to be here.

[KiwiInLondon]

@pakman they play Georgia in France