Predicted Team
- Williams
- Taukei'aho
- Mafileo
- Barrett
- Holland
- Sititi
- Kirifi
- Savea
- Ratima
- McKenzie
- Clarke
- ALB
- Ioane
- Reece
- Jordan
- Bell
- Bower
- Tosi
- Lord
- Parker
- Christie
- Love
- Fainga'anuku
Wales
Match thread
All Blacks
I'd like to see Ruben Love and Caleb Tangitau given game time.
The players who are most bashed up and drained at the end of a long season should sit this one out.
@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Oh good, a club level at best ref.
Does it matter with a team like Wales ?
@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Oh good, a club level at best ref.
She'll be better than the terrible ref we had yesterday. (Setting a low bar).
@Bovidae said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
I'd put Lakai at 7 ahead of Kirifi. But I expect more conservative selections.
He'll ring the changes, but it'll be another opportunity lost as the changes will lack any thought for development and the future
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Oh good, a club level at best ref.
She'll be better than the terrible ref we had yesterday. (Setting a low bar).
Maybe, but only in the bits where she can keep up.
Let's be brutally honest, you could bring in the New Zealand XV that's playing Uruguay & you'd still comfortably beat us.
I'll be watching the whole game wincing with my hands over my eyes. 
1 Williams
2 Taukei'aho
3 Mafileo ?? Hmm. Are we allowed someone from the AB XV?
4 Barrett Darry
5 Holland
6 SititiAre we allowed someone from the AB XV?
7 Kirifi Lakai
8 Savea Sititi
9 Ratima-are we allowed Fakatava?
10 McKenzie
11 Reece Clarke
12 ALB Fainga'anuku
13 Ioane
14 Reece Tangitau
15 Jordan
16 Bell
17 Bower
18 Tosi
19 Lord
20 Savea
21 please not Christie are we allowed someone from the AB XV?
22 Love
23 Fainga'anuku Tupea are we allowed someone from the AB XV?
@pooler-fan said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Let's be brutally honest, you could bring in the New Zealand XV that's playing Uruguay & you'd still comfortably beat us.
I'll be watching the whole game wincing with my hands over my eyes.
The All Blacks camp this week is going to have the atmosphere of the trenches on the Western Front in late 1916. Our coaching staff are dead men walking. We are riddled with injuries. We are going to have some mediocre players who have played very little Rugby in key positions.
Wales might win this, although ABs by 7-10 seems more likely.
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@pooler-fan said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Let's be brutally honest, you could bring in the New Zealand XV that's playing Uruguay & you'd still comfortably beat us.
I'll be watching the whole game wincing with my hands over my eyes.The All Blacks camp this week is going to have the atmosphere of the trenches on the Western Front in late 1916. Our coaching staff are dead men walking. We are riddled with injuries. We are going to have some mediocre players who have played very little Rugby in key positions.
Wales might win this, although ABs by 7-10 seems more likely.
Seriously if 7-10 points is the best we can do against this Welsh side 
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Our coaching staff are dead men walking
Yeah right, I mean even if some were jettisoned or walk, who is gonna join this shit show?
I honestly dont see too many changes, Razor simply hasn't worked out test rugby, then there is the game plan that ain't getting the best out of our players, starters and bench...
I reckon if you go back over Razors tenure, how many games have we bricked it in the 2nd half?
@African-Monkey You don't know the meaning of "the 16th man" until you've heard the Welsh home crowd in full voice. They'll give their side an enormous lift.
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
We are going to have some mediocre players who have played very little Rugby in key positions.
Makes a nice change from mediocre players who have played way too much Rugby in key positions.
@taniwharugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Our coaching staff are dead men walking
Yeah right, I mean even if some were jettisoned or walk, who is gonna join this shit show?
Kiwi coaches took over the Wallabies, so there is a precedent right there...
Ok, dark secret out. Of all the UK/Irish teams I'd mind losing to the Welsh the least. Apart from what that means in terms of form, of course. Anyway I was expecting us to lose 2 games on tour, which for me was just about on a minimum acceptance level. But now losing another game (and in a row) is not acceptable.
@nostrildamus said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@taniwharugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Our coaching staff are dead men walking
Yeah right, I mean even if some were jettisoned or walk, who is gonna join this shit show?
Kiwi coaches took over the Wallabies, so there is a precedent right there...
You whooshed me...unsure what that has to do with anyone wanting to join them current coaching team
@taniwharugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@nostrildamus said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@taniwharugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Our coaching staff are dead men walking
Yeah right, I mean even if some were jettisoned or walk, who is gonna join this shit show?
Kiwi coaches took over the Wallabies, so there is a precedent right there...
You whooshed me...unsure what that has to do with anyone wanting to join them current coaching team
I probably whooshed myself. I must be focussed on the whole coaching team leaving now. If only Razor and Ryan remain, I honestly don't know. Seems to me Razor is a hands off guy so isn't an impossible sell as a boss to potential assistant coaches, but I have no inside info