@jaycee said in All Blacks v France Test 3:

Joe Moody (33)
Codie Taylor (31)
Owen Franks (97)
Samuel Whitelock (98) - captain
Scott Barrett (18)
Shannon Frizell
Ardie Savea (24)
Luke Whitelock (4)
Aaron Smith (73)
Damian McKenzie (14)
Rieko Ioane (15)
Sonny Bill Williams (46)
Jack Goodhue
Waisake Naholo (18)
Ben Smith (65)

Hmm. Anyone of those in the backrow you could probably have confidence in if surrounded by experience/ first choice players. As a collective, if the French aren't dreaming of mistresses, wine and sunshine, we could be in for a torrid time of it.

Which leads us to the elephant in the room; five-eighth. I get the felling SBW and Goodhue will have to do a lot of straight running.

This could also be the Test for BFA to show he still has what it takes at this level after looking decidedly outclassed on the wing.

If the French don't put int he same effort as last week, under a dry roof, this could become a rout, which will mask a lot of problems evident only a week ago.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France Test 3:

@kiwimurph said in All Blacks v France Test 3:

@nepia said in All Blacks v France Test 3:

@kiwimurph said in All Blacks v France Test 3:

Happy to see Frizell there - i'd rather see someone who has a really high ceiling be given a crack rather than the underwhelming options that have been seen previously (Squire, Fifita).

How do you know he has a high ceiling? Hopefully he does, but nothing in his rugby so far suggests that - it's telling that he plays for Tasman and @Chris-B doesn't even fluff him.

I didn't even know that Hemopo had been brought into the squad until yesterday. The selectors are loving on the Highlanders at the moment ... but at least Hemopo plays and is a Kiwi.

I disagree. He looked a special athlete vs the Blues when he scored a hat-trick (yes yes it's only the Blues and i'm taking that into consideration).

remember when Fifita scored that try against Aregentina, and people were falling over themselves to suck him off? Look how that turned out.

Turns out we already had a bunch of wingers.

The difference in outcome is the telling factor there, although I will say that's well refereed.

Well, we're slipping down the ladder anyway so why not make sure the season is a disaster?

How can it be poorly written? Find new planet. Kirk has sex with scantily clad inhabitant. Scotty finds more power. Klingons get defeated. It's logical.

"The week before Ofa Tu'ungafasi put a shoulder to a head and that should have been a red card.

Nonsense.

"We didn't say anything, we let it go, we're not getting refereed the same way.

Your own coach had a whinge in media.

"I don't want to be a cry baby or anything, but it's just not fair

Cry baby.

@tim said in 50 Years of Star Trek:

Well, killing off the main character is the only way the show could possibly be redeemed.

It's Star Trek, how would redeeming it be possible?

@mariner4life bicep femoris is hamstring, so it would be quite the session.

There's the small matter of recovering from bicep femoris tendinopathy and a torn tendon in my wrist. So training is very limited at the moment. Can't even use the rowing machine.