All Blacks 2022
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
What to make of Jordan's "inner ear issue"? Possible concussion symptoms?
If my memory serves me right, a few seasons ago he had the same issue. Kept him out for quite a while. Back then they thought it was concussion at first but later realised it was 'inner ear'.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
What to make of Jordan's "inner ear issue"? Possible concussion symptoms?
If my memory serves me right, a few seasons ago he had the same issue. Kept him out for quite a while. Back then they thought it was concussion at first but later realised it was 'inner ear'.
@Crazy-Horse Same as Ben Smith, isn't it?
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From personal experience, coz it's all about me me me, I had an inner ear inflammation 10 or 12 years ago.
I suspect there are degrees of these things, but this hit me out of the blue, was the most unrelentingly unpleasant experience (imagine the most intense dizzy spell from the worst hungover of your darkest nightmare), and took months to fully resolve.
Acute vestibular neuronitis was the doctorism used.
No specific cause, but likely result of irritation from cold or flu.
I just wish him well.
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@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
No, the French team has a 6 (Woki) playing at lock.
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@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
Actually, I only see England and SA playing a lock at six. Ireland, France, Australia, Scotland, Argentina and Wales aren't.
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@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
Actually, I only see England and SA playing a lock at six. Ireland, France, Australia, Scotland, Argentina and Wales aren't.
@cgrant said in All Blacks 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
Actually, I only see England and SA playing a lock at six. Ireland, France, Australia, Scotland, Argentina and Wales aren't.
Potentially Beirne gets selected at 6 when Ireland are at full strength.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
@kiwiinmelb serious question, has Brodie outplayed Scott at lock?
Would you rather have Rettalick in the 23 or Frizzell..
Would you rather have Rettalick in the 23 or Frizzell..
Hard to judge, I don't see how they directly compete.
I'd like the best overall team on the pitch. Strange, I know.
Unlike many here I prefer SB at lock to 6, as I feel at 6 against those lowdown cheating opposing loosies his tackling lacks a certain sensitivity to the laws of the game. And he is very good at lock!
But as long as the All Blacks win the next RWC, and stomp everyone into the dust with power and elan and a touch of aura in the process, I won't complain. -
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
No, the French team has a 6 (Woki) playing at lock.
@cgrant said in All Blacks 2022:
No, the French team has a 6 (Woki) playing at lock.
he's kind of between the two positions in size isn't he? He didn't stand out to me in the game I watched.
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Would you rather have Rettalick in the 23 or Frizzell..
Hard to judge, I don't see how they directly compete.
I'd like the best overall team on the pitch. Strange, I know.
Unlike many here I prefer SB at lock to 6, as I feel at 6 against those lowdown cheating opposing loosies his tackling lacks a certain sensitivity to the laws of the game. And he is very good at lock!
But as long as the All Blacks win the next RWC, and stomp everyone into the dust with power and elan and a touch of aura in the process, I won't complain.@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
Would you rather have Rettalick in the 23 or Frizzell..
Hard to judge, I don't see how they directly compete.
I'd like the best overall team on the pitch. Strange, I know.
Unlike many here I prefer SB at lock to 6, as I feel at 6 against those lowdown cheating opposing loosies his tackling lacks a certain sensitivity to the laws of the game. And he is very good at lock!
But as long as the All Blacks win the next RWC, and stomp everyone into the dust with power and elan and a touch of aura in the process, I won't complain.I prefer SB at lock too. Playing him at 6 so BBBR can be accommodated is suspiciously like trying to squeeze all the best players into the team rather than playing the best player in each position. We have been down that track before with mixed results.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
Would you rather have Rettalick in the 23 or Frizzell..
Hard to judge, I don't see how they directly compete.
I'd like the best overall team on the pitch. Strange, I know.
Unlike many here I prefer SB at lock to 6, as I feel at 6 against those lowdown cheating opposing loosies his tackling lacks a certain sensitivity to the laws of the game. And he is very good at lock!
But as long as the All Blacks win the next RWC, and stomp everyone into the dust with power and elan and a touch of aura in the process, I won't complain.I prefer SB at lock too. Playing him at 6 so BBBR can be accommodated is suspiciously like trying to squeeze all the best players into the team rather than playing the best player in each position. We have been down that track before with mixed results.
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2022:
Playing him at 6 so BBBR can be accommodated is suspiciously like trying to squeeze all the best players into the team rather than playing the best player in each position.
It's not though. Is Frizell really that much better than Barrett at 6, if he even is at all? It's more like chucking Kahui on the wing.
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@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2022:
Playing him at 6 so BBBR can be accommodated is suspiciously like trying to squeeze all the best players into the team rather than playing the best player in each position.
It's not though. Is Frizell really that much better than Barrett at 6, if he even is at all? It's more like chucking Kahui on the wing.
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@Bones that's the question aye. Is he the best 6 NZ has on tour? I can be convinced either way, but I am a suffering a bit of players playing out of position fatigue.
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bones that's the question aye. Is he the best 6 NZ has on tour? I can be convinced either way, but I am a suffering a bit of players playing out of position fatigue.
Nothing that won't be fixed when they name a loose trio of Papalii, Sotutu, Savea this weekend.
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@Bones "We have stopped watching the game because it looks awful". Real rugby fans, there! Who stops watching a game because of the colour of the boots players are wearing?
@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bones "We have stopped watching the game because it looks awful". Real rugby fans, there! Who stops watching a game because of the colour of the boots players are wearing?
It makes me very discussed.
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I must admint, I have stopped watching games if a team is wearing a really stupid and unnesescary change/away kit. If I'm just casually interested in the match, not invested. Apex of this was the Saffa marvel kits.
But even someone as aesthitcially devoted to heritage as me, wouldn't get hung up on boot colours.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2022:
Entire team was wearing white boots on Saturday. Although some had yellow trim.
I don't particularly care about the black boot thing. Although if everyone has different boot colours it does make it easier for the defence to communicate. "I've got green boots" etc. Although probably less of an issue when theoretically everyone should know their opponents names: "I've got Michael Lawes" etc
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@cgrant said in All Blacks 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
Actually, I only see England and SA playing a lock at six. Ireland, France, Australia, Scotland, Argentina and Wales aren't.
Potentially Beirne gets selected at 6 when Ireland are at full strength.
@Frye said in All Blacks 2022:
@cgrant said in All Blacks 2022:
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks 2022:
@Bovidae Every other top test nation is playing a lock at 6, S.Barrett offers everything we need there and is necessary to complete an otherwise incomplete backrow carrying 2 opensides (Cane+Savea) which Foster is welded to.
Actually, I only see England and SA playing a lock at six. Ireland, France, Australia, Scotland, Argentina and Wales aren't.
Potentially Beirne gets selected at 6 when Ireland are at full strength.
Nah. The incumbents are O'Mahoney and Doris.
