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    @Mr-Fish said in All Blacks XV v Georgia:

    Assuming everyone gets some minutes, we're looking at a team along the lines of...

    1 Xavier Numia
    2 Kurt Eklund
    3 Saula Ma'u
    4 Naitoa Ah Kuoi
    5 Fabian Holland
    6 Caleb Delany
    7 Du'Plessis Kirifi
    8 Simon Parker
    9 Noah Hotham
    10 Josh Jacomb
    11 Quinn Tupaea
    12 Dallas McLeod
    13 Riley Higgins
    14 Chay Fihaki
    15 Shaun Stevenson

    16 Bradley Slater
    17 George Bower
    18 Marcel Renata
    19 Isaia Walker-Leawere
    20 Corey Kellow
    21 Finlay Christie
    22 AJ Lam
    23 Kini Naholo

    Obviously a few different combos they could run.

    I'd be pretty surprised if Oli Haig is left out completely after being one of the guys who spent time in Japan. I'd say he will keep his blindside spot

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    Holland, Tupaea, Kirifi

    Honourable mention: Plummer

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    Video of the haka is on the FB page. Silence from the crowd, led by Renata.

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    @brodean Bower, Slater, Haig, Holland, Lam and Plummer all went to Japan (as did Lio-Willie, who's now a permanent member of the All Blacks squad).

    Though actually those guys were partially picked because they weren't involved in the NPC final so it's probably touch and go between Slater and Eklund.

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    @cgrant said in All Blacks XV v Japan:

    Harmon certainly missed a chance to impress

    The heat made the game stop and start. Not much phase play for him to make an impact

    Did they ever say what his injury was?

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    @Bones said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

    @pakman said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

    @African-Monkey said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

    He may have no pace anymore, but man Goodhue still has beautiful hands.

    As @Victor-Meldrew observed recently, imagine him with Rieko's pace and you have the prince of centres.

    The prince of centres throwing in a nothing grubber after being put into space down the left hand side, instead of looking to link up, would have had me stabbing him to death with the spikey bits on his crown.

    The PofC was a superb grubberer!

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    @Duluth
    I am not a fan of him as he is too indisciplined, but I have to admit that Kirifi had a storming NPC. He was the form 7 of the competition IMO.

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    @WillieTheWaiter said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:

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    @MiketheSnow said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:

    @akan004 said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:

    Ffs how is that a yellow

    YC every day and twice on Sunday

    Came at speed, in from the side, and hit the man late

    WTF is this 'came at speed' bullshit.. saw the same thing with Brodies card

    didn't realise there was a speed limit in rugby

    Wasn't a tap

    Brought his full force from distance; illegally in from the side where the Irish player was unsighted so couldn't defend himself; and hit him late

    That's a pretty shit thing to do and deserves a YC

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    @cgrant said in All Blacks XV:

    @Canes4life said in All Blacks XV:

    @taniwharugby said in All Blacks XV:

    @akan004 iIRC he looked handy when he got on for the Crusaders, but wasnt as good in NPC

    He was completely outplayed in the NPC final by Delany, Blackwell and Bird at lineout time and he fell off a couple one on one tackles.

    NZ Rugby need to stop selecting teams before the final has been played. No better measure of a player than when the heat is on. Gardiner isn't up to International standard. (yet)

    Same goes for the non-selection of Cullen Grace in the ABs earlier this year when he was an obvious stand-out in the Super final.

    I am happy you were wrong. Gardiner was outstanding in Dublin and this is good news for NZ rugby.

    That doesn’t mean the likes of Delany wouldn’t have flourished if he got an opportunity aswell.

    Cudos to Gardiner, he was impressive.