All blacks rugby World Cup squad

[Kiwiwomble]

Replacing a winger?

....yeah, someone taught fozzie how to count and and realised he f'd up with the original squad...but rather than bring in finau who was good all year...he's gone with injury prone blackadder

 

[Umaga's Witness]

....yeah, someone taught fozzie how to count and and realised he f'd up with the original squad...but rather than bring in finau who was good all year...he's gone with injury prone blackadder

Probably the crusaders bias of Ryan influncing that one. Finau would have been a more like for like frizell replacement too, allowing the team to retain some cohesion

 

[Kiwiwomble]

Probably the crusaders bias of Ryan influncing that one. Finau would have been a more like for like frizell replacement too, allowing the team to retain some cohesion

...might be right, not in a canterbury bias sense but just in a for familiar with blackadder so might be able to get him up to speed quicker?

 

[Umaga's Witness]

...might be right, not in a canterbury bias sense but just in a for familiar with blackadder so might be able to get him up to speed quicker?

Yeah. The all blacks XV selection last year was heavily crusaders biased but that was possibly just Ryan not being familiar with other players yet

 

[Kiwiwomble]

Yeah. The all blacks XV selection last year was heavily crusaders biased but that was possibly just Ryan not being familiar with other players yet

and maybe because the crusaders had won the comp and so had some good players

 

[Umaga's Witness]

and maybe because the crusaders had won the comp and so had some good players

I don't know about that, they were mostly non starters - Gallagher, Gardner, bell, etc

 

[Kiwiwomble]

im not going at argue because i dont think the ABXV has achieved much if anything, i had bigger problems with selecting players that were moving overseas, or players that performed well being leap frogged by others, didn't feel it was too crusaders skewed