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I think it’s semi-hilarious that England and New Zealand have reverted to the style SA employed - kicking the rubber off the ball for 80 minutes. A style widely panned by everyone, mostly the English and Kiwis!

In England “winning ugly” even became a popular statement. After a sneak victory over Ireland. Now England just lose ugly.

Anyway…

The one area of the AB team that needs serious work is discipline.

The ABs go down to 14 men so regularly you can set your watch to it. It seems now that in an effort to tackle low, ABs aren’t even looking when they tackle!

Who is coaching the ABs defence? Because it’s been sh1t since before the 2023 RWC.

And lastly, scrums. Not enough is being said about the NZ scrum looking behind the curve when missing key personnel. A lot was said about the size and power of the AB pack at the beginning of the season. But NZ have not dominated the big teams. Recently SA and England had NZ on the back foot.

I’m starting to have my doubts about Ryan as a forwards coach. NZ aren’t making strides there.

But in terms of team cohesion, one can tell the ABs are on the up. And that is the thing Razor brings to the party imho. Just need to sort out personnel and selections and build from there.

Who do they expect to get picked then?

none the less . the 2023 springboks won by 1 point against the worst All Black team in history . even with 1 yellow and 1 red . the spring boks couldnt score 1 try . even as a nzlander , my opinion isn't based on bias . because i can see the positives and negatives in all teams . yet the points Ive made highlight the actions of the NZRU and the All Black coaches since 2016 - 2023 that have taken the All Blacks backwards . So it seems the world has caught up to the All Blacks . but the reality is , the standard of the All Blacks lowered from 2016-2023 and that is fact .

even more without the south africans playing in super rugby . super rugby has become weaker . the effects on the All Blacks will show in the next few years in the rugby championship . hopefully the effects dont have dire consequences .

That’s incredible. I didn’t know three teams could all be ranked number one at the same time.

It looks like Tahg is either a) relieving himself after too many Guinness. Or b) being possessed by a demonic presence.

Who picks these images?

In short, should've, would've, could've. Who cares? It's all hypotheticals.

Also, Bell was definitely picked due to his age, as Taukei'aho is our second-choice Hooker, Aumua third. Better to blood young talent whilst Samisoni's injured, than "waste" it on someone approaching their twilight years.

100 percent international rugby is better . but no team has played as good as the 2015 All Blacks .