All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Breaking news on One - Aaron Smith has voluntarily stood himself down for this weekends match.
Although thier headline says 'Disgraced All Black stood down' fuck our media sucks
It's noticeable that the younger crop of journos in particular really do seem to be so far up their own arses, it's not funny. Their self righteousness and general arrogance is sickening. Smith isn't a disgrace, the NZ media should carry that title.
From the press report.
- He will voluntarily stand down from assembling with the All Blacks for this weekend's Bledisloe Cup test match.
Sounds like he's being forced to do it to me.
Forced? Nah sounds like he probably came to the decision himself with the fallout of it all. I doubt he would've been selected anyway.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
unprecedented
No. Usually it's Thursday.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@Smudge said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
You're kidding me???
Team news before Thursday is unprecedented.
Is Thursday the day the rest of the team is confirmed? Is that usual?
My sauces say Thursday is the day. But perhaps the ABs are changing things up a bit. Try and confuse the Aussies to make it harder for Cheika to name his all important 24.
Is that tomato sauce, mayo or hollandaise sauce? Or are you talking about people on the sauce? Just asking because mixing those things up can give very confusing results, too.
I'm not sure you've been here long enough to understand that one has sauces of information.
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I'm going to make Chieka's job easier for him:
Backrow: Fardy, Pocock, Timani. Hooper on the bench to finish the game because Pocock can't run with the ball.
Backs: Phipps (because Genia's gone back to his day job), Cooper supported by a hard-running midfield in Kerevi and Hodge - both in the positions where they played best in Super Rugby.
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@antipodean That's probably making it harder, now he has to try and fits heaps of players into only 17 more spots.
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Surely he can drop eight of them the morning of the game if they don't have skim milk on their cereal?
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Jumping to conclusions assuming that he isn't playing because of the media attention. He requested to be sent home from Argentina to deal with his personal issues. He certainly didn't seem to be in any state of mind to be playing coming off the plane.
If he is patching things up there is every chance that a 5 day camp prior to a one month tour wasn't the best timing for him personally.
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Literally everything written on here is jumping to conclusions. Zero difference between "he was stood down by Hansen" to "he's dodging media" to "He's focusing on his missus" in the "I'm just making this shit up" bucket.
The only non conclusion jump here is he ain't playing.
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How the hell can Aaron Smith voluntarily stand down? It has been reported in reputable media outlets that he has to use disabled toilets. At least give him a guard rail first.
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@rotated said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Jumping to conclusions assuming that he isn't playing because of the media attention. He requested to be sent home from Argentina to deal with his personal issues. He certainly didn't seem to be in any state of mind to be playing coming off the plane.
If he is patching things up there is every chance that a 5 day camp prior to a one month tour wasn't the best timing for him personally.
Whatever his reasons a benefit is that he doesn't have to face the media.
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so, are we expecting a full strength AB side, sans Smith?
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
so, are we expecting a full strength AB side, sans Smith.
Demanding it I reckon - some records are worth chasing!
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I would have thought we go full strength sans Smith (assuming Cane is also out). I agree the record (or "record" if you prefer) is worth chasing hard. I expect no real difficulty on the EOYT - other than the potential of a scare in Dublin - so this is the big one of our five left.
