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All Blacks Training Squad Named
By Sam Smith
An All Blacks wider training camp is being held in Christchurch this week ahead of The Rugby Championship. Players from the Crusaders in contention for the All Blacks will not attend the camp as they are preparing for the Investec Super Rugby Final in South Africa.
The All Blacks squad for The Rugby Championship will be named on Monday 7 August. The squad will then assemble in Auckland on Thursday 10 August to prepare for the opening Bledisloe Cup Test of the Championship against Australia in Sydney on Saturday 19 August.
The players attending the camp are as follows:
Forwards
Hookers: Dane Coles and Nathan Harris.
Props: Kane Hames, Nepo Laulala, Atu Moli, Jeffery Toomaga-Allen and Ofa Tu'ungafasi.
Locks: Dominic Bird, Tom Franklin, Brodie Retallick and Patrick Tuipulotu.
Loose forwards: Sam Cane, Vaea Fifita, Akira Ioane, Jerome Kaino, Ardie Savea and Liam Squire.
Backs
Halfbacks: Tawera Kerr-Barlow, TJ Perenara and Aaron Smith.
First five–eighths: Beauden Barrett, Damian McKenzie and Lima Sopoaga.
Midfielders: Richard Buckman, Ngani Laumape, Anton Lienert-Brown, Charlie Ngatai and Sonny Bill Williams.
Outside backs: Jordie Barrett, Rieko Ioane, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Waisake Naholo, Julian Savea and Ben Smith.
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This France team is as good as they were when they went into the World Cup as favorites. Have gone through a rebuild of confidence and rediscovered that form.
Neither England nor Ireland will trouble this team in the 6N. That’s my prediction.
And I guess about time too. Considering that France has won but one 6N title in 6 seasons despite being the best French team for generations thriving off the platform which is the Top 14.
They must just beware of peaking too soon and going to Australia over confident.
Which is also why I thinks it’s absolutely bonkers that France isn’t sending there best players to New Zealand next year. Yes, it isn’t Australia, but getting some SH travel experience makes more sense than not.
Go to commentsI'm not meaning to criticise the players, it's a professional game, this is their livelihood so all power to them. I am aiming criticism at the selectors. Italy is the perfect opportunity to give players of the future a game such as Lakai, Love etc. There is a finite number of tests until the next world cup to develop the team, we are wasting one today.
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