All Blacks & All Blacks XV EOYT 2024

[Dctarget]

Penaud, Cros and probably Flament are out of this weekend’s match.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Jason Ryan dropped a pretty broad hint that Lakai will be the starting 7 which makes more sense to me than the reshuffle some have been advocating. Sititi's time at 8 will come in due course, ATM he looks pretty damn good at 6 so why shift him unless you have to?

 

[Dctarget]

Ntamack is injured again, which normally leaves Jalibert as his replacement, as we saw Jalibert start throughout the 6N and RWC. But he's now been dropped from this weekend's match with Thomas Ramos most likely starting at 10. Jalibert is at least 3rd in line then, wonder if he has an Aussie grandma. Incredible depth by France.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

1news running a story that France will name a 6/2 bench with Dupont the backup 10.

 

[Italophile]

Ntamack is injured again, which normally leaves Jalibert as his replacement, as we saw Jalibert start throughout the 6N and RWC. But he's now been dropped from this weekend's match with Thomas Ramos most likely starting at 10. Jalibert is at least 3rd in line then, wonder if he has an Aussie grandma. Incredible depth by France.

Dupont has been crook but will play. Cros a big miss.

 

[Dctarget]

Dupont has been crook but will play. Cros a big miss.

I find this french team really, really uninspiring. Alldritt has been poor, their backrow is not threatening, Roumat shouldn’t be an international. I think Meafou and Flament aren’t working well in the 2nd row and Baille is a big loss.

I really think NZ’s forwards are going to walk over them.

 

[Italophile]

I find this french team really, really uninspiring. Alldritt has been poor, their backrow is not threatening, Roumat shouldn’t be an international. I think Meafou and Flament aren’t working well in the 2nd row and Baille is a big loss.

I really think NZ’s forwards are going to walk over them.
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I fancy Alldritt to step up but back row has to be suspect. Ollivon benched because, apparently, his work rate has dropped off. Ramos at 10. Pffft. A lot resting on Dupont and Fichou. There's an element of perversity about the selection.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

AB have done the loose forward reshuffle:

All Blacks: Tamaiti Williams, Codie Taylor, Tyrel Lomax, Scott Barrett (C), Tupou Vaa’i, Samipeni Finau, Ardie Savea (VC), Wallace Sititi, Cam Roigard, Beauden Barrett, Caleb Clarke, Jordie Barrett (VC), Reiko Ioane, Sevu Reece, Will Jordan. Reserves: Asafo Aumua, Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Pasilio Tosi, Patrick Tuipulotu, Peter Lakai, Cortez Ratima, Anton Lienert-Brown, Damien McKenzie.

 

[zer0]

Why bench Aumua after his best test? Just let him keep rolling along accruing test match experience. The two minutes of scraps he's typically been getting off the bench isn't going to achieve anything.

Predicted Sevu Reece carrying statistics:
Metres carried sideways: 738
Metres carried backwards: 69
Metres carried forward: 3