All Blacks 2026

@Steven-Harris Game against Ireland could be an afternoon kick-off (like the first Bledisloe this year) as the Wahs are scheduled to play at 7.30pm that night

@UpTheHarbs who are these Wahs you speak of ?

@Steven-Harris You know, the rugby league team that played the second half of an elimination final at the same time the ABs played against SA in Wellington?

@UpTheHarbs now i’m with you ,Its the “Our Year Guys”

So when is David Kirk's review happening and when will we find out the results of it?

Ardie seems very concerned with his image. That's a hard pass for me as AB captain.

Roigard or Taylor.

@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:

Ardie seems very concerned with his image. That's a hard pass for me as AB captain.

Roigard or Taylor.

Taylor is 100% AB captaincy material. As in born for the role. Only reason would be if he didn't want the responsibility or it was felt it might infringe on his own game.

@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2026:

@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:

Ardie seems very concerned with his image. That's a hard pass for me as AB captain.

Roigard or Taylor.

Taylor is 100% AB captaincy material. As in born for the role. Only reason would be if he didn't want the responsibility or it was felt it might infringe on his own game.

He will be 36 by the time of the RWC though - hopefully his body holds up

Rieko has already learned to pass anyway.

Progress.

All Blacks set to beef up coaching ranks to improve tactical kicking and high-ball work

@Tim said in All Blacks 2026:

All Blacks set to beef up coaching ranks to improve tactical kicking and high-ball work

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Oh we need another coach to learn how not kick the ball away aimlessly.

This reads like Razor trying to get ahead of any more serious changes being made.

We were bad at this under Foster, anyone could tell that from the couch.
It takes a professional coach 2 full seasons to realise it needs to be fixed?

The All Blacks’ kicking out of hand has been found wanting at times this year

At times....id say most of the time

@reprobate Every Silverfern Match thread for a long time has been pointing out how bad our kicking from hand has been and more recently how passive how defence is.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the obvious flaws in the AB's game.

@Tim said in All Blacks 2026:

All Blacks set to beef up coaching ranks to improve tactical kicking and high-ball work
60909917/all-blacks-set-beef-coaching-ranks-improve-tactical-kicking-and-high-ball-work

Is my prediction of Cory Jane as high ball coach going to materialize? He's already been with the All Black XV team for the last two season & made a big impact - surely he's the obvious candidate?

@reprobate said in All Blacks 2026:

We were bad at this under Foster, anyone could tell that from the couch.
It takes a professional coach 2 full seasons to realise it needs to be fixed?

Reminds me of the old adage of "A Camel is a Horse designed by committee".

@restofit said in All Blacks 2026:

@Tim said in All Blacks 2026:

All Blacks set to beef up coaching ranks to improve tactical kicking and high-ball work
60909917/all-blacks-set-beef-coaching-ranks-improve-tactical-kicking-and-high-ball-work

Is my prediction of Cory Jane as high ball coach going to materialize? He's already been with the All Black XV team for the last two season & made a big impact - surely he's the obvious candidate?

Bring back Room Raiders.

Loves a Fizzy does our Cory.

The All Blacks 2026 home Test schedule is:

Nations Championship
All Blacks v France, Saturday 4 July, One New Zealand Stadium, Christchurch, kick off 7.10pm.
All Blacks v Italy, Saturday, 11 July, SKY Stadium, Wellington, kick off 5.10pm.
All Blacks v Ireland, Saturday, 18 July, Eden Park, Auckland, kick off TBC.

Bledisloe Cup
All Blacks v Australia, Saturday 10 October, Eden Park, Auckland, kick off 7.10pm.

Just said to Mrs, we will book Wellington for July, I really don't do Eden Park as I gone right off Auckland as a place to go, and kind of feel similar about Chch (not quite as strongly though)

@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2026:

All Blacks v Italy, Saturday, 11 July, SKY Stadium, Wellington, kick off 5.10pm.

Giving Italy a real shot here.

4 home tests out of 17.

I, for one, welcome our new Silver Lake overlords.

@nzzp To be fair, I guess if we want to return to the old days of proper tours, we have to accept big chunks of away games.

Presumably, we'll get a quid pro quo vs SA touring here in (2029?).

It's a pretty brutal season, though - if the wheels really came off there's a dozen lose-able games in that schedule.

No game against Argentina next year

@Kiwidom said in All Blacks 2026:

No game against Argentina next year

Aust has two games in Arg, but the Pumas don't play SA either. That's due to the SA-NZ series.

Next season looks really really ominous.

I have haka fatigue, social media fatigue, learnings fatigue already.

Not sure I can take a full tour of them fellating the Springboks on their socials and giving uncle Siya reacharounds in the sheds.

I want to see people getting their heads caved in.

Bring back the biff.

@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:

Next season looks really really ominous.

I have haka fatigue, social media fatigue, learnings fatigue already.

Not sure I can take a full tour of them fellating the Springboks on their socials and giving uncle Siya reacharounds in the sheds.

I want to see people getting their heads caved in.

Bring back the biff.

Troy Flavell, Keith Robinson and Brad Thorn are long retired unfortunately.

@Jet Loves a long soak in the bath too…. as is my understanding.

@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:

Next season looks really really ominous.

I have haka fatigue, social media fatigue, learnings fatigue already.

Not sure I can take a full tour of them fellating the Springboks on their socials and giving uncle Siya reacharounds in the sheds.

I want to see people getting their heads caved in.

Bring back the biff.

"felleting"

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:

@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:

Next season looks really really ominous.

I have haka fatigue, social media fatigue, learnings fatigue already.

Not sure I can take a full tour of them fellating the Springboks on their socials and giving uncle Siya reacharounds in the sheds.

I want to see people getting their heads caved in.

Bring back the biff.

"felleting"

?

@game_film said in All Blacks 2026:

@Jet Loves a long soak in the bath too…. as is my understanding.

Not sure of the euphemism, but I do love a bath (with a beer).

@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:

@game_film said in All Blacks 2026:

@Jet Loves a long soak in the bath too…. as is my understanding.

Not sure of the euphemism, but I do love a bath (with a beer).

@barbarian does a bath count as colonic irrigation?

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2026:

@barbarian does a bath count as colonic irrigation?

So you are going to use that expression on a daily basis now?

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2026:

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2026:

@barbarian does a bath count as colonic irrigation?

So you are going to use that expression on a daily basis now?

yes.

Although I do not plan to google it.

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2026:

@Jet said in All Blacks 2026:

@game_film said in All Blacks 2026:

@Jet Loves a long soak in the bath too…. as is my understanding.

Not sure of the euphemism, but I do love a bath (with a beer).

@barbarian does a bath count as colonic irrigation?

Depends on the shape of the bathtub, I think

I think the tour next year either makes us or breaks us , I dont mind it ,

We either rise to play at the level required to compete with the benchmark or we dont , sink or swim

i think its more beneficial than playing weaker opposition with guaranteed wins and patting ourselves on the back , at least we find out where we are at,

Probably a bit off topic for this thread but south africans seem confident Tony Brown is very happy and about to extend his contract with Rassie .

@nzzp said in All Blacks 2026:

@barbarian does a bath count as colonic irrigation?

Not if you share the bath.