The Silver Fern

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2025:

@pakman said in All Blacks 2025:

They could add Havili, increasing midfielders to 7!

There's no need for Havili - they have enough fullbacks and 12s.

Are you sure ? He’s so experienced and he can cover 10 as well

@Chris said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@canefan said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@Cyclops said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

O'Rourke was out in that second innings too, so it was just Henry and the spinners. (Mitchell too I guess). Described as 'stiffness' so hopefully precautionary and he'll be a go for the second match.

He's a Kiwi quick looking useful. It'll be a stress fracture.

We have pretty average form in terms of keeping our young quicks injury free

We do. @Chris can probably give us an idea why. Training? Lack of match play? Or maybe, with our limited depth we notice it more.

A tough one the pulling back of bowling loads was being used as a training tool,this seems to lead to more back problems.
In the QLD under age rep programs we are more building up loads safely to get the body stronger.It seems to be working with less problems developing,
You can not train for a marathon by doing sprint training is the thinking.You need a decent amount of load work to build strength.
I think NZ are still working on the less work theory.

I also think NZ at under age level are not working enough on things like over rotation of hips and shoulders which leads to back problems and proper alignment when the player is young then you have less problems latter.

Some players with poor nutrition when young also leads to structural problems within the back.

Different era of course but I don’t remember the Windies quicks aside from Ian Bishop ever having injury problems. They just rolled in and decimated teams. If one had an off day the other three generally did the business…..and Bishop himself still took 161 at 24.27. Amazing stats.

Dennis Lillee was a notable one who came back from injury though, can someone give Kyle Jamieson a copy of his book ?

@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:

@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:

I gave Once upon a time in Hollywood another watch.

Probably 4-5 times in total now.

Gee whiz it’s the hardest Tarantino movie to rate in my opinion.

Leo is fucken cool and Brad is even cooler. Their chemistry is awesome. Margot Robbie is lovely to look at. It is full of snappy dialogue ( of course ). The period is captured brilliantly. The Spahn ranch scene and finale are awesomely violent.

BUT…..

There is heaps of pointless filler, it really, really drags at times. I really drifted off in some scenes. There is fuck all in terms of actual storyline

I still can’t decide where it ranks overall, at its absolute best it’s well up there……but at its worst it’s down there……

So it’s probably about 5th out of 10 ( assuming you rank Kill Bill as two films )

What’s really impressive about it is it’s stacked cast of unknowns at the time…
Austin Butler, Mikey Madison, Sydney Sweeney, Margaret Qualley. Maya Hawke
All pretty big now (pun intended re Sydney Sweeney)
And of course it wouldn’t be a Tarantino movie without feet

How THE FUCK did I miss her !?!?!?

She’s about the hottest chick in Hollywood at the moment.

Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds
Django
Reservoir Dogs
OUATIH
Jackie Brown
KB2
H8ful 8
KB 1
Death Proof

Even then I’m not sure how accurate this list is ( I haven’t watched Pulp Fiction in years, is it still number one ? Django improves every time I see it, Jackie Brown is great but others have surpassed it etc ) the only sure thing is the one that sits last and even that has some awesome moments.

I gave Once upon a time in Hollywood another watch.

Probably 4-5 times in total now.

Gee whiz it’s the hardest Tarantino movie to rate in my opinion.

Leo is fucken cool and Brad is even cooler. Their chemistry is awesome. Margot Robbie is lovely to look at. It is full of snappy dialogue ( of course ). The period is captured brilliantly. The Spahn ranch scene and finale are awesomely violent.

BUT…..

There is heaps of pointless filler, it really, really drags at times. I really drifted off in some scenes. There is fuck all in terms of actual storyline

I still can’t decide where it ranks overall, at its absolute best it’s well up there……but at its worst it’s down there……

So it’s probably about 5th out of 10 ( assuming you rank Kill Bill as two films )

Good win, shoulda been by more !

A real bugger Henry couldn’t get that one last wicket, possibly overbowled with Smith not fully fit.

Could be time to try some younger guys for the next test, top order needs to contribute more than they did.

Zimbabwe 110/6 still trailing by 48.

Henry 2/44, hopefully he can clean up the tail.

We either won’t bat again or we’ll chase fuck all so providing the weather holds this should be all over rover pretty soon

Surely they could have selected Kinghorn AND DVDM for a bit of Scottish familiarity and a chance to really put the sorry Aussies to the sword ?

What happened to Smith ? Is he able to bowl ?

Still very much in the box seat but not as much as they should be

Another three or so wickets for Henry would be nice. Might need Mitch and Ravindra to roll the arms over to ease the burden too

Very disappointing day so far. From 92-0 to this is quite shit.

Here’s hoping Mitch jr can salvage something and get a handy first innings lead

@SouthernMann said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

Looking forward to a scratchy 30 from Nicholls

Disappointing Duffy isn't getting a run.

You called it.

Such a nothing score in cricket, neither here nor there.

Should end up with a comfortable lead by the end of the days play today though

@Higgins said in All Blacks 2025:

@Duluth said in All Blacks 2025:

He’ll be able to play for Scotland in a couple of years.

Where is @MN5? Not like him to not bring things like that to our attention.

He’s too Scottish for Scotland. They’ll have a good South African ready to play halfback instead of him.

@bayimports said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

Young and Conway to declare at 600 without loss?

Yeah go on then.

Young is too good a player to not have scored a ton and Conway is…..well, I thought he was cooked but here’s hoping he contributes too.

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2025:

I just don't get why an incredibly average, overseas-based, 31yr-old 10 at the fag-end of his career is considered key to the AB's success by the national coach

It’s just as confusing as a blindside who had one storming game and a bunch of mediocre ones is seen as some kind of saviour.

Just on Henry and his chances of 10 for the match……

It’s a staggering stat that just THREE Black Cap bowlers have ever taken more than one 10 fer in their careers.

Hadlee stands out like dogs balls by achieving this NINE times, Vettori three and Patel twice.

Southee, Boult, Martin, Cairns jr and sr, Chatfield, Bracewell, Nash, Bond, Jamieson, Santner, Craig, Cowie, Troup and Pringle make up the rest having done this once each. Some very good bowlers here mixed in with a few one off freak performances.

Notable to me that Wagner who would be in the discussion for an all time NZ XI never managed it once.

@Virgil said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

@Cyclops said in Black Caps in Zimbabwe:

Henry outright 10th now. A bit sad that Chats is now out of the top 10.

Good chance he might over take Cairns Snr by the end of this match too.

Yeah would love him to get a 10fer. Absolutely deserved.

For me he’s second name down on the team sheet after KW now. Just an amazing improvement from the pieman he used to be.