Maori Tour

[Daffy Jaffy]

@stargazer I think that 19. is Lomax and 8. is the Hawkes bay prop Rakete-Stones who was training with the squad pre tour.

[Bovidae]

Is Lomax fit to tour?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@stargazer I was wrong - the last player added was Sean Paranihi the Manawatu Prop not Rakete-Stones.

[Stargazer]

@daffy-jaffy As a Hawke's Bay supporter I knew no. 8 in the photo wasn't Rakete-Stones, who looks much younger. No. 19 in the photo is indeed Sean Paranihi (I had to check on google images).

[Stargazer]

http://www.allblacks.com/News/31698/two-players-added-to-maori-all-blacks-squad

[Bovidae]

The team to play Canada has been named. Ngatai at fullback. McMillan says they have selected the most experienced team.

http://www.allblacks.com/News/31714/new-look-maori-all-black-team-named-to-take-on-canada

[Stargazer]

[taniwharugby]

be good if they can get Renata to improve his scrummaging, cos has a great workrate around the park and on d.

[Wurzel]

The wrong Sean/Shaun is starting on the right wing

[Stargazer]

@wurzel Is there a right Sean for any backline position in this team?

[Nepia]

@bovidae Well, that's bollocks, how is Wainui more experienced than Stevenson? Stevenson would probably have played at least double the amount of games as Wainui. Has Curtis played any?

[Bovidae]

@nepia

I didn't say I agreed with the team, just relaying what McMillan said.

[Nepia]

@bovidae I didn't say you did, I was just commenting on McMillan's comment.

[Stargazer]

Wainui:
Super Rugby games: 9
NPC games: 30
Maori ABs games: 3
First year of NPC: 2014

Shaun Stevenson:
Super Rugby games: 22
NPC games: 23
Maori Abs games: -
First year of NPC: 2015

Curtis:
Super Rugby games: 0
NPC games: 42
Maori ABs games: 2
World Sevens tournaments: 19
First year of NPC: 2013

[Bones]

So I'm not the only one that thinks Stevenson looks like Ambrose.

[TeWaio]

Every time I see Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi's name I think of Triple-T, aka TTT, the office linebacker:

[pakman]

@tewaio That could be a helpful acronym for Allblacks.com, which has to reduce the font size to fit his name in!

[Tim]

@taniwharugby He only switched to tighthead a two years ago (and immediately played there for Auckland ...), so there's potential there.

[Rapido]

@tewaio said in Maori Tour:

Every time I see Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi's name I think of Triple-T, aka TTT, the office linebacker:

I always think of Triple J and twice the T. Which then makes me think of Fenella Bathfield. From some reason I'm not sure if I have them linked.

Maybe she was in their video? Or maybe her after school tv show was where I always saw that video?

Either way. Mmmmm. Fenella.

[infidel]

Does the team selected for the Canada game mean the lineup in Bordeaux v French Barbarians might be a bit second string?

Only two games for the Maori as far as I can see.

Will be heading to Bordeaux to drink some cheap vin rouge like Mouton Rothschild and soak up the atmosphere.

Rougerie is in the French Baabaas squad, must be a swansong for him surely, he's 37 years old.