Māori All Blacks 2025
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@Duluth also never been vocal enough in getting his forwards where he needs them, somethign alot of players should learn from Aaron Smith and how he would drive his pack.
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@taniwharugby said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Duluth also never been vocal enough in getting his forwards where he needs them, somethign alot of players should learn from Aaron Smith and how he would drive his pack.
Communication is the best skill and can turn a team of toilers into dominators. It's something that's probably best learnt playing 7s I reckon.
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@Bovidae said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Niuean - G and M Wrampling
Looks like the Wrampling's found some whakapapa.
Decent team especially when you think about the guys in the ABs there's an entire front row and. a spare, two halves, a 10 and a utility, and three midfielders.
Looking at that team, as has been discussed above, halfback seems the real weak area which seems weird considering there's usually at least one AB 9 running out for the Maori.
I learnt this weekend that Shalfoon is a Lebanese name, so is Shalfoon a Lebbo-Maori?
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@Nepia said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Bovidae said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Niuean - G and M Wrampling
Looks like the Wrampling's found some whakapapa.
Who knew. I only read that he was Niuean, but I then there were a few others that I was surprised about too. When pasty white gingas can find some whakapapa then anything is possible.
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@Nepia said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Lebbo-Maori
There's more than you think... keep an eye out for Kumeroa.
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@Bovidae said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Nepia said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Bovidae said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Niuean - G and M Wrampling
Looks like the Wrampling's found some whakapapa.
Who knew. I only read that he was Niuean, but I then there were a few others that I was surprised about too. When pasty white gingas can find some whakapapa then anything is possible.
TBF, I know a few pasty white gingas who are Maori. I'm always more surprised by the ones I think are Maori who aren't - like Flanders and Macca Springer (but probably because he's the spitting image of my cousin's boy).
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@hikastags West has a number of distinct Maori features though.
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@Kiwidom said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Bovidae I thought Nui Muriwai ( wgtn) and Quintony Ngatai ( Waikato) all looked better than Parapara in last year's NPC
Those are the other two names I immediately thought of if an NPC halfback was going to be selected. Ngatai is a PE teacher, so probably not available anyway.
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@Trig said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
@Bovidae What's the deal with Naitoa Ah Kuoi? Not selected in squad or named as unavailable due to injury
Is he Maori?
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@Bovidae said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Ah Kuoi speaks Samoan so I assume that is his ethnicity.
Fred Ah Kuoi kiwi league stand off in the 70s and early 80s was Samoan
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@booboo said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Is he Maori?
Mostly or all Samoan https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-talanoa/sports/champions-of-the-pacific-ken-and-naitoa-ah/
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@kiwiinmelb said in Māori All Blacks 2025:
Fred Ah Kuoi
According to Wikipedia "[Fred] Ah Kuoi made his international début for New Zealand Māori in 1975, at the age of 18. He toured Australia with the side, participated in the 1975 Pacific Cup and faced Australia, Wales, England and France in New Zealand.[5] "
The article I mentioned in a nearby post said Naitoa is related to Fred (if related to Fred then related to John Kirwan!)
