Wallabies lose another star hours from kickoff

I assume because it’s a lot of peoples focus so it would disrupt their campaigns.

Because he got knocked out committing his body, something Blackadder doesn’t do now.

Having to get a new player in and upskill them is a waste. You might as well just start with them and make progress, as you know EB will break.

Cane was a 7, EB is a 6.

If EB wants to replace Cane, he’s first got to dispose Christie of the 7 position at the Crusaders. Maybe Penney can be blamed?

Yes, we need a bottom of the ruck workhorse who is big and strong at 6. That person is the epitome of Scott Barrett. See the difference in those two pictures?

His form is Zero. He hasn’t been playing 7. But yes, I wouldn’t mind a rotate between those three guys for the back ups backup versatile role.

General those trends develop as a counter. As in if theres no big teams then you don’t need big loosies to combat them.

So you’re looking at a team like the Chiefs who have Vaa’i at 198, Finau at 195, and Parker at 196 to run that team next year to flatten people before some of the others my decide to use their locks to combat it. And a new style of play/coach or course, because they played pretty wide with them this year.

But yeah, players like Akira get squeezed to the side if a smaller promising loosie like Sotutu comes through because Tuipulotu (Vaa’i height) and the likes have been brought up as a locks. Hell Canes had Blackwell locking for them for years and he must have been no bigger than Finau or Parker.

So yeah, to answer your question another way, it’s genetics.

You should always consider yourself lucky when you’re named an All Black.

Not being named an AB is then ‘normal’.

Not surprise I haven’t heard any Hansen quotes this time round though!

Jacobson got knocked out and jumped straight back in. Ethan hung his arm out and then warmed his arms about like a women who’d has her handback stolen.

Theres a massive difference between the two players.

Obviously they still wanted at least one wise head in the midfield, which may be why ALB is still there even though he’s injured. At least one of the midfield will be able to train in the back three at any one time as well, so ALB is their as the 6th, a leader watching the 4 train against each other. He’d eat up a bit of time if one of the two starters went down.

But you don’t really need to have two locks against you to train for lineout purposes (just someone to jump against), so they’d have 3v3 loosies (using a lock as 6) matchups which would be far more important for testing speed and position to getting numbers right during phase play. Admittedly the two that can cover 6 are the starting two lol but they probably don’t need to train on the same side at this point.

To expect him and his coaching team to achieve the above is setting him up for failure.

Will his job be on the line if they achieve another <75% win year? They haven’t done better than that in 6 years.

I think 10/13 is reasonable and par for the course this year.

France could reasonably offer one banana peel this year. The Boks another. These aren’t Mickey Mouse teams after all.

Beware of Australia and Argentina in 2027 in particular. These matches could be the difference between a great season and a terrible one by NZ’s lofty standards.

I issue this warning to the springboks too.