The Silver Fern

It really is a shame they didn't use this as an apportunity to give an up and coming player a chance instead of Nicholls.

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

@Chris said in Fern Outage:

Brilliant work @Duluth and @Kirwan
you don’t know how much you miss this place until it is gone.

It was so strange having a couple of big games to watch without the chat

I've been waiting for days to find out who the man of the match was!

Jeez, didn't even know that the UAE played rugby...

Yep, shocking that Nicholls was even considered let alone actually selected. I can only imagine it is because he is one of the 20 NZC contracted players.

@Windows97 said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

For the non Instagram people.

All Blacks team to face France

1. Ethan de Groot
2. Codie Taylor
3. Fletcher Newell
4. Scott Barrett (c)
5. Fabian Holland
6. Tupou Vaa’i
7. Ardie Savea
8. Christian Lio-Willie
9. Cam Roigard
10. Beauden Barrett
11. Rieko Ioane
12. Jordie Barrett
13. Billy Proctor
14. Sevu Reece
15. Will Jordan

Reserves: 16. Samisoni Taukei’aho, 17. Ollie Norris, 18. Pasilio Tosi, 19. Samipeni Finau, 20. Du’Plessis Kirifi, 21. Cortez Ratima, 22. Quinn Tupaea, 23. Damian McKenzie

Had to scroll through close to a hundred posts before getting to this one, thank you so much

Real fans would know we are playing two tests against Zimbabwe very soon.

I highly doubt Jordie won't be playing 12, unless he wants to switch back to 15.

What is the benefit of letting RR play prop? wouldn't the blues be better off going to golden oldies?

I thought PUG was supposed to be a hungus???

Was Cashmore only for this season?

@Landers92 said in Crusaders vs Chiefs:

Are we just going to ignore reeces deliberate jump up and knock down. That should be a penalty try and yellow card

I was wondering about that too, looks like he got away with it though

@1kiwi said in NZ Cricket:

Rookie Black Caps Rhys Mariu, Mitch Hay get chance to push for test debut in NZ A squad

Next crop of young ones with a mix of Black Caps experience for the NZ A side.
Surely Rhys Mariu is in with a decent shot of being selected for the test side for the Zimbabwe tour going by the numbers he racked up in the Plunket Shield this season.

Incumbents probably want to pad their averages so if he's lucky he mighy get some batting practise in the nets.

@Nepia said in Bad/Lame Jokes:

@MiketheSnow said in Bad/Lame Jokes:

@LABCAT said in Bad/Lame Jokes:

I knew it was Bruce Lee but I still don't get it, can someone explain?

Drum, don't what the fuck that is, Bruce Lee.

Lol, my thoughts exactly! apparently it's an attic

I knew it was Bruce Lee but I still don't get it, can someone explain?

@canefan said in NZ Cricket:

@nzzp said in NZ Cricket:

@canefan said in NZ Cricket:

He made some mind-boggling decisions at times. But you have to give the guy his flowers

Still reckon we should have played Boult over Scott K against England at the Mount. Yes, I can bear a grudge.

Most egregious was not getting warm up games in Aus for our tour. You cannot succeed without acclimatising.

Like I said, some mind boggling decisions. Mainly regarding selection (I can't recall any specific examples now, but I can recall being quite unhappy with some of them. Bracewell wasting a spot on the test team was one). If it was his decision to forgoe warm up games before the Australian tour, then that was a poor decision

Allowing Henry Nicholls to play on longer than he should have would have been one. It actually seems recently that we have started to promote a lot more fresh talent (maybe this hasn't been by choice) whereas previously we would keep playing the same players regardless of form.

Probably the worst selection was allowing Southee a farewell tour when we should have been going all out for a spot in the WTC final.

Given that Hay is batting at 8, starting to feel like they should be putting the foot on the accelerator.

@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:

Underway and BCs are 66/1.

Still 50 overs in the brackets so looks like we haven't lost any time according to cricinfo ?

No, reduced to 42 overs.

@Cyclops said in Black Caps v Pakistan:

@MN5

Difference of 14 (27 vs 41) in T20 though, that must be where I got the idea.

Yeah, he absolutely loves playing T20 against and at their home grounds too!

@MN5 said in Black Caps v Pakistan:

New boy Abbas in for Mitchell, gone for 76.

Will need to have a swing pretty shortly. I thought Bracewell might have come in ahead of him ?

Chapman has belted his way to 114 at the other end ! very big score looking good, especially given the start they had.

Maybe Bracewell thought it was worth giving Abbas a bit more time to get into the game, good captaincy.

Naholo no chance for the All Blacks?

Seems to be in very good form at the moment so would be a strange choice to leave NZ at this stage.