All Blacks Non-Bledisloe Matches 2024

[waiopehu oldboy]

v England (both 7:05 pm NZT):
Saturday 6/07 in Dunedin
Saturday 13/07 in Auckland

v Fiji (2:30 pm):
Saturday 20/07 in San Diego

 

[zer0]

v England (both 7:05 pm NZT): Saturday 6/07 in Dunedin

Close affair with the ABs noodling away on the back of Jordie Barrett kicking a 60m scrum penalty or something idk.

v England, Saturday 13/07 in Auckland

The apocalypse cometh.

v Fiji (2:30 pm): Saturday 20/07 in San Diego

I forgot that wasn't an EOYT situation.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ perhaps you were thinking of:

v Japan (time TBC)
Saturday 26/10 in Yokohama

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Saturday 6/07 in Dunedin

meh, bit of leeway here, the usual rust.

Saturday 13/07 in Auckland

Lose the unbeaten streak at Eden Park and cool surfy guy Scott Foster and his jarring anti-Blues/pro Cantabs+Chiefs selections are going to face a putrid River Ganges of a slew of horrific, horrific memes quiksilvered right up his clacka.

 

[Dan54]

Starting to get a bit excited about this week's test/s actually. But with the Poms was interested listening to Wiggleworth on Breakdown (had a struggle watching it as I been pissed at Goldy moaning about Gus Gardner after Chiefs/Canes semi), but I must admit it did get juices flowing with talk of test this week etc.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

AB have been told who's in & who's not, barring a leak the rest of us will find out 11:30 Thursday.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

England: 1-Joe Marler, 2-Jamie George (capt), 3-Will Stuart, 4-Maro Itoje, 5-George Martin, 6-Chandler Cunningham-South, 7-Sam Underhill, 8-Ben Earl, 9-Alex Mitchell, 10-Marcus Smith, 11-Tommy Freeman, 12-Ollie Lawrence, 13-Henry Slade, 14-Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, 15-George Furbank

Reserves: 16-Theo Dan, 17-Fin Baxter, 18-Dan Cole, 19- Alex Coles, 20-Tom Curry, 21-Ben Spencer, 22-Fin Smith, 23- Ollie Sleightholme

 

[Derpus]

It still strikes me as somewhat amateur that different teams announce their lineups at different times and even days. Its like one of those fine touches that a good professional game gets right. Everything nice and orderly.

Anyway quite a few names I don't recognize in that England team.

 

[Dctarget]

Which names? It's a pretty strong squad. Cunningham-South is going to be part of the English backrow for a long time and Feyi-Waboso is going to make many defending wingers look like fools.

 

[molman]

Agreed. Itoje is looking like he's finding some of his former form which is good to see. He's looked like he'd lost his edge for awhile there. Reminded me a bit of James Ryan or Ireland who was red hot for a season or so and then lost his edge. Marler is the kind of grub you love to have on your side and it doesn't hurt that he's a class scrummager. Earl has been a standout for England and probably one of the players in this group who has impressed me the most. I like Slade being back in at 13 and Feyi-Waboso as you highlighted has been exciting. I also prefer Furbank out back over Steward who was the goto for awhile.

That bench isn't half bad with some genuine experinece in the likes of Cole and even Curry coupled with some quality youth with Smith and Baxter.

With a bit more of a run up, their attack is starting to look like it's finally clicking with their ruck work still looking strong.

I'll be cheering on my NZ cousins, but this is one of the more exciting looking England sides for awhile. Going to hopefully be a good series. Keen to see how quickly Razor can hit the ground running and how he approaches this series.

 

[Dan54]

B team named, no surprises really. No debutants etc.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1808644450106700205

 

[zer0]

 

[Derpus]

Is Barrett the only All Black in history that gets a completely free ride. Just has to be fit and he's automatically in the team.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Not unhappy with that 23 but a bit concerned wrt the officials:

Referee: Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
Assistant Referee 1: Nic Berry (RA)
Assistant Referee 2: Jordan Way (RA)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)

I seem to recall Amashukeli being a bit out of his depth at RWC, hopefully he's improved since then & that he & Gauzins are on the same page i.e. no "do we have a deal?"-type shenanigans.

 

[KiwiM]

Is Barrett the only All Black in history that gets a completely free ride. Just has to be fit and he's automatically in the team.

In fairness he played well in the World Cup.

 

[KiwiM]

Better team than I was fearing

Very pleased to see Finau at 6.

Excited to see how Razor does

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Pleased Cotton Wool Barrett B doesnt get rewarded with a starters jersey.

Might be tricky to look tough when you're dressed like a convent schoolgirl from the 1900's.....

 

[Adam84]

Pleased Cotton Wool Barrett B doesnt get rewarded with a starters jersey.


Might be tricky to look tough when you're dressed like a convent schoolgirl from the 1900's.....

 

[zer0]

Me, a Super Rugby winning Auckland Blues killdozer intellectual seeing this backline: what is this, a backline for a 5th grade game? The absolute state of it.

 

[Dan54]

Is Barrett the only All Black in history that gets a completely free ride. Just has to be fit and he's automatically in the team.

Well there are 3 Barretts in the team, and I would have all 3 of them in my 23 everyday.