The Silver Fern

@SouthernMann Definitely gonna be a difficult decision for Jamie, I think all three of (Casey, Withy, Lasaqa) need to be in that starting 23 somehow. But then you also have guys like Howden, Haig, Stodart and Broughton who deserve a spot aswell.

Depth at 7 is stacked now with Casey, Lasaqa and Withy. Love to see it.

Im wondering whether they’ll make a change and move Withy to 6 permanently, considering he’s been playing there all season with the Stags. But the flip side to that is you lose that big body at 6, like TK Howden or a Shannon Frizell, or do they slot them at 8 instead of Broughton?

@Nepia yeah his off field behaviour have always been a problem. Hope he’s matured since.

@jimmyb Sorry gonna have to disagree with that. We’ve got two wanna be Frizzell’s in the All Blacks right now. Parker and Finau.

@Nepia Whats wrong with Frizzell?

@Chris The reason I asked was because I had no knowledge of why he was left out. Just a question bro no need to get too salty about it.
Otherwise it sucks that he’s injured again, hope it’s nothing serious.

@Duluth ahh I see, find it so dumb why they even bother posting a copy and paste team in the first place. Still sucks that Tangitau is injured either way.

So Caleb Tangitau got dropped from the Auckland 23 because Razor had a wee cry that Clarke and Ioane weren’t in it? Or is he injured again? Poor guy.

@pakman this has to be a joke right?

@Canes4life Dumbest thing he could’ve done. Especially after he played an excellent game against France at Fullback. He’s never even played on the wing for Wellington let alone being chucked on for the wing for the All Blacks Razor is so lost.

@Canes4life I like Quinn, but I don’t like his size.

@brodean I 100% agree with this, Leicester at 12, Jordie to 15, Will and Carter on the wings.

@Kirwan “One bullshit try” most games lol. Where’s all Reiko Ioanes tries then?

Will has 2 bad games under the high ball and everyone goes into a panic

Correct me if I’m wrong but I didn’t see him drop one high ball the other day and his defence was very strong. Still the best outside back in NZ by a long shot.

It would be a downgrade for Taranaki to go from Josh Jacomb to Barrett.

@ShaquilleOatmeal Man I thought Razor finally grew a pair of balls when he had the guts to drop his boyfriend David Havili. But it seems as if he’s inlove with Beaudy now
Fuck he’s not half the player he used to be, imagine how awful he’s going to be at 37. Jamie Joseph would’ve never let this happen just saying

It makes it even more frustrating when you see teams like the Wallabies who have players like Joseph Sua’ali’i who just turned 22 btw with 10 test caps already.

Another example, Max Jorgensen who has just turned 21 already has 13 Test Caps.

@Jet Exactly. They’re too scared to take some risks and give some players the experience that they need, just like what Rassie has done with his 45!! man squad.

Honestly the number 1 thing I’d do against the Wallabies is start Ruben Love at 10.

I don’t care how good/average Beaudy is right now. The way I look at it, he’s going to be 37 at the RWC. Do we really want a 37 year old running the show?? NZ Rugby has never learned to move on from certain players and it’s frustrating to see.

Is the Xavier Tito-Harris signing confirmed? Or still rumours at this point..