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@canefan said in All Blacks v France II:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks v France II:

@brodean said in All Blacks v France II:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks v France II:

@brodean understand your point etc, but I doubt whether Love is even been considered starting for ABs this week, after about 4-5 games at most starting for Canes. And I a Canes man (and Love fan). I doubt any test coach in world would consider a starting 10 with so little experience.

You're probably right about consideration from the coaches. Doesn't mean they're right.

The guy is 24 now. He's had 5 years of Super Rugby experience and started 13 games for the Canes at 10. It's an experimental French B/C team. Beauden Barrett had already played 24 tests at 24. We're too conservative now.

Problem is that coaches at Canes (rightly or wrongly) haven't thought Love is good enough to steer them around field at 10. Their job is to do what they think is best for Canes, and selectors have to (I think) select on a good body of work, so they have confidence they won't cock up in tests.
I tend to agree I would like to see more of Love, but if at 10 off bench. Her starts and makes a few balls ups, imagine the melt down (and in press etc) about playing him before he ready.

Laidlaw shat the bed by reinstating Cameron as the starter when he returned from injury. Bad for the Canes, bad for Love and his AB potential

Speaking of body of work - there was more than enough body of work to show that Brett Cameron wasn't the answer but Laidlaw went that path anyway.

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Algerian VPN works

with?

ExpressVPN

No, I meant what are you trying to achieve?

Oh watching the NZ v Ire Squidge vid

@Machpants That's an uncomfortable conversation the next day.

@dogmeat said in Should Ardie play 7?:

@mariner4life reddit are banning all nudity and adult content from October

looooool

and so dies Reddit, gone the way of tumblr

'Nowhere to hide' for All Blacks as South African mini-tour looms 'Nowhere to hide' for All Blacks as South African mini-tour looms

Ancient rivals renew their blood feud this month, but can New Zealand handle the world champions in their own back yard?

@zedsdeadbaby said in Still talking about Foster:

Yeah - he explains his frustrations that the process took so long after the 2019 RWC and believed it should have been concluded in “days”.

He had agreement from those two to come over. Joseph would have been forwards coach.

um that would have been a good coaching team methinks.
I've been a Foster as coach critic but I've also said as a team manager type he seems to have been quite popular with the players. And as more a coach-manager than a strategy / tactics coach .. oh well, we'll never know now.

@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs England 2:

I'm confused by the pod system we are using, from static ball our pods are standing deep and static and getting caught behind the advantage line

scrum halves passing to static ball carriers instead of in front of them is one of the most confusing things to me. when I played it was one of the first things we were taught when passing from the ruck to generally always pass in front and basically never to the man. so weird how professionals still get that wrong so often

@mariner4life said in Emotion:

Watching the 2003 semi at JJ Murphy's in Wellington I nearly threw an empty handle through the TV

Anger is also am emotion

Probably wouldn’t have even got kicked out. Murphy’s had all sorts of feral behaviour back in the day. Great pick up joint too.

We have a chance now. We have a tight 5.
The rest is icing
Might buy some tickets

@cgrant said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:

Pita Ahki

Played for Tonga and NZU20s and NZ 7s? We could use someone like him. And Moala.

But if they fix their injury worries I'd have no problems with twin midfielders, just imagining what dummy running tactics one could come up with, with twins that could almost look like.