New report details source of Ardie Savea's All Blacks frustrations

The ABs have been on the decline since 2018 when they have lost 9 times to the Boks since and there no sign of them recover their formidable past?

Sounds a lot like gossip. Dave Rennie, nor the others, will have little tolerance of that!

Gut feelings have nothing to do with it not is he the only player in the ABs the insinuation Ardie needs to do anything is highlighted in the story. He didn’t say anything like what Grigor Paul and this commentator are saying they are grasping at straws in the end he did not talk about a revolt he is creating legacy by uplifting others teams around the world.

Savea has had a very poorly managed three years, amateur hour.

He should only have been allowed to move to Moana with strictly limited minutes and he then went on to play super high minutes at Allblacks level under what was clearly a hot mess under the secret head coach Hansen

That Dalton left after Cane got his farewell year and then he was overlooked for tiny loose forward Kirifi has been another huge fail that again sees Sotutu playing for England at the World Cup.

Kirk needs to keep sorting out the woke shambles at HQ

Sad to see some rugby players becoming prima donnas like the footballers! Just play the damn game and leave the drama at home.

Makes a lot more sense than the BS about leading a player revolt

Sit Savea out of the Nations Cup and start a back row of 6 Flanders, 7 Lakai, and 8 Sititi with Howden and Jacobson on the bench.

Savea may not get back into the starting lineup and that may not be a bad thing.

First Paul clearly running PR at NZRU. Second hes doing it badly by throwing Ardie under the bus and backhandedly linking him yet again to player discontent. Third, why is any of Ardie’s private negotiations public anyway? I cant believe his managers are letting this happen. Its destroying his brand. Fourth, if any of this is true, how can Ardie be in the Captaincy conversation? Burn out is not about whether you get on with the coach. A total reset is needed, not more pressure and the ABs having their biggest challenge outside a WC with the Bok tour - is gigantic pressure.

Ardie Savea signed through the RWC 2027 and is currently playing for Kobe Steelers which gives Dave Rennie real time first hand knowledge of how he's tracking and what affect it might have on Ardies rugby career going forwards…

Ardie needs some time off. ABs should send the C team to safferland. Take the L and avoid all the injuries

If the AWB boys are true to form they won’t let any of the star players get uninjured to the tests anyway

I believe he became a distraction, whose interest in his image popping on the big TV screen, closing to 33 age he is already past his best as a loose forward

well maybe ardie needs to realise the allblacks are bigger than him

Razor’s biggest mistake trying to depend on Ardie so much.

This week, Paul shared his findings from looking into the story

… for the hundredth time lol Paul has been whipped into line by NZR just like Rennie was talking about overseas selection.

Ardie’s a great player but I have said it for a couple of years, he looks like an old man out their and won’t be able to last if he’s abused by the coaches. Needs to take a step back and fill the impact role, he’d be world class at that.

He put the pen to paper for all those contracts than saying its too much for me!

McCaw and Codie Taylor, also now Scott Barrett the only WISE ones to take a non playing sabbatical

I really love Ardie as a player but l think chasing the money got in the way of making logical decisions!

It’s just another confirmation the AB’s wasn’t a happy camp under Razor.

When your best player wants to walk away, the alarm bells should be ringing and Kirk jumped into action.

Another tricky issue for Rennie to manage.

Wouldn’t surprise me to see him not play in the July window, he has played an astronomical amount of minutes without much break.

I understand that he was tired. But he chose to: play at the World Cup in ’23, go straight to Japan, go straight into an All Blacks campaign, move to Auckland and carry Moana Pasifika.

I still think asking Robertson to leave was the best option. The All Blacks were in the doldrums and not, clearly, building to anything.

If he shows the same commitment to Dave Rennie’s All Blacks as he has to his wallet and Moana Pasifika then he will be a standout.

I’m not sure what he was expecting with Moana, surely he knew he was going to have to carry that team last year, which he did admirably. But it must have taken a lot out of him and it looked like he ran out of gas for the AB’s last year.

I feel like this hasn’t been ventilated enough.

Discuss.

Despite his significant talent, Savea is a disruptive element in the All Blacks, and his presence in the team interferes with a rational loose forward strategy. I would have let him walk.