All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson

[shark]

Actually, why shouldn't we do a Cricket Australia and relegate our neighbours to second tier venues for 30 years or so? We should in all seriousness send a message to the ARU and host the Wallabies next year in Invercargill.

[Bones]

@shark said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Actually, why shouldn't we do a Cricket Australia and relegate our neighbours to second tier venues for 30 years or so? We should in all seriousness send a message to the ARU and host the Wallabies next year in Invercargill.

Christchurch might be easier to get to for fans.

[Chris B.]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

GFY.

Invented rugby in New Zealand - you'd be watching soccer or handball (probably maypole dancing if it had been left to the Waikato) if it weren't for the farsighted Nelsonians.

Been a test venue since the RWC in 2011.

[Chris B.]

My team:

Moody, Taylor, Franks, Retallick, BarrettS, Squire, Savea, Read, Smith, Mo'unga, Ioane, Laumape, Goodhue, Naholo, BarrettJ

Tu'inukuafe, Harris, Tu'ungafasi, Hemepo, WhitelockL, Perenara, Lienert-Brown, DMac

[MN5]

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@allblacksfan72 Sam Whitelock has played a lot of minutes this year and I think they will play him off the bench as a result. They should have selected an extra lock in the squad imo so that we could have given both our rock star locks some time off during the RC.

I'd pick Fifita. He ticks all the boxes and then some with his raw athleticism....but then there's the glaring fact he won't get picked at lock cos he said he doesn't want to be a lock.

[MN5]

@shark said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

Yeah I agree. Where next; Wanganui, Gisborne, or maybe Timaru??

'Timaru, is it the money or the bag?'

RIP Selwyn Toogood.

[shark]

@bones said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@shark said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Actually, why shouldn't we do a Cricket Australia and relegate our neighbours to second tier venues for 30 years or so? We should in all seriousness send a message to the ARU and host the Wallabies next year in Invercargill.

Christchurch might be easier to get to for fans.

Quite harsh making them play at our 'stadium'

[Wreck Diver]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

Well not much different to Rota Vegas or Hamilton hey I'll even throw Palmerston North in the mix.

[MajorPom]

@shark said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Actually, why shouldn't we do a Cricket Australia and relegate our neighbours to second tier venues for 30 years or so? We should in all seriousness send a message to the ARU and host the Wallabies next year in Invercargill.

We could even accidentally send that message by playing them in Christchurch.

[MajorPom]

@bones said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@shark said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Actually, why shouldn't we do a Cricket Australia and relegate our neighbours to second tier venues for 30 years or so? We should in all seriousness send a message to the ARU and host the Wallabies next year in Invercargill.

Christchurch might be easier to get to for fans.

Ah fuck, beaten. I was so proud, too.

[akan004]

@bones True but I want them both to be fresh when we play Ireland and England and don't want them to get injured playing a team we should beat fairly easily. Can't lose to both those fluffybunnies.

[Bones]

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@bones True but I want them both to be fresh when we play Ireland and England and don't want them to get injured playing a team we should beat fairly easily. Can't lose to both those fluffybunnies.

It's only England.

[akan004]

@bones said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@bones True but I want them both to be fresh when we play Ireland and England and don't want them to get injured playing a team we should beat fairly easily. Can't lose to both those fluffybunnies.

It's only England.

Never thought I would say this but I probably hate losing to the Irish more than to the English now. The Irish fans have been incredibly cocky since their one victory in a hundred years.

[Gunner]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

Visited Nelson for the first time earlier this year.
Their stadium looks to be a nice little provincial stadium, but bloody hell I can’t believe they’ve given them a test.

[98blueandgold]

I dont know if it will be wholesale changes. I think it will more be minutes played, so maybe sub early. the starting 15 might be pretty solid with bench the big change.
Retallick, Moody, Franks, Read, Squire haven't played a lot of minutes in super rugby and with Crotty and Rieko back i think they could be only major changes.
everyone is also saying Richie to start but remember that Mackenzie is next in line. Think of Sopoaga it took him a looong time to get ob field, even if Mounga is an upgrade.
Only thought is they will want to rest some people but may do that when travel to Argie/SA as they like to send some to SA before tour party arrive. I also think they will want to now win Rugby Championship before they head over there.
Possibly

J Barrett or Mackenzie a start
Naholo
ALB (coaches did say Goodhue had played a lot of minutes)
Crotty
Iaone
Barrett
Perenara
Read
Cane
Squire
Barrett
Rettalick
Tuungafasi
Taylor
Moody

Karl T
Perry
Harris
Hemopo
Whitelock
TTT
Barrett or Mackenize
Laumape
NMS

[Chris B.]

@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

Well not much different to Rota Vegas or Hamilton hey I'll even throw Palmerston North in the mix.

What?!!!

Those are the sort of places Donald Trump had in mind when he talked about shitholes!

[Chris B.]

@gunner said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is a test match venue. jesus christ. what a disgrace

Visited Nelson for the first time earlier this year.
Their stadium looks to be a nice little provincial stadium, but bloody hell I can’t believe they’ve given them a test.

On the principle that tests should be hosted by First Division Unions, the options are pretty much Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson and New Plymouth.

New Plymouth's stadium has been condemned so Nelson it is!

Hooray!!!

GFY as well!

[Bovidae]

Nelson is the Coromandel of the south - full of alternative artsy types and hippies.

[Chris B.]

@bovidae Yeah man!

It's a trifecta of the GFYs!

[mariner4life]

@bovidae said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Nelson is the Coromandel of the south - full of alternative artsy types and hippies.

Give Thames a test!!