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Bazzallina 6 minutes ago
All Blacks pile 50 on the Bulls to remain undefeated in Greatest Rivalry tour

You are missing Segner Holland Lakai Jordan Moorby Carter as obvious guys in contention to play who have played well in tests this year or before and on the tour matches, Caleb Clarke aint even playing now so have you really been taking notice?

How much deeper are the Boks in reality right now? for example is the difference between Kriel and Moodie equal to the difference between QT and Rieko



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RugCs 7 minutes ago
Dave Rennie opens up on All Blacks’ progress ahead of first SA Test

Kiwi press have no idea what they are talking about. They think that depleted URC teams missing their Boks and a handful or regular players, playing in their pre-season is good enough to gauge their scrum, and other areas.

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Over the sideline 11 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Yes so was I. I was very happy when he was appointed. Now Im very happy hes gone lol.

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Over the sideline 12 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

I dont agree about Love. Agree Plummer got nothing but Love didnt get game time.

He had time on the wing v Japan… probably his biggest game time under Razor, and played approx 75mins in 5 tests under Razor, but not at 10.



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NucK 14 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

This!

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JW 15 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Referring to Sititi. I agree with your outlook on him too though, just saying i’d like either.

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NucK 15 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Everyone is playing better. It's what I thought they'd look like under Razor.

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NucK 16 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Totally agree. For whatever reason it just didn't click. Full disclosure I was banging the drum long & loud for Razor!

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JW 16 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Sititi generally dodges them, it’s why he has been so good. Perhaps you’re looking at how Razor tried to change him? I thought that might be the case too.

Still we are comparing players, and Lakai doesn’t do either of these things and his hands have been just as bad.



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NucK 17 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Jordie B springs straight to mind. Apparently awesome up north. Lit it up in SR. Bang average for the ABs. Chalk & cheese to this year. In general the back line looked pants. Just my opinion.

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Wayneo 20 minutes ago
All Blacks pile 50 on the Bulls to remain undefeated in Greatest Rivalry tour

We can argue over a few players all day long but for me it’s already obvious who this 1st team players are Baz -

Ethan de Groot, Codie Taylor, Tyrel Lomax, Tupou Vaa'i, Patrick Tuipulotu, Ethan Blackadder / Wallace Sititi, Luke Jacobson, Ardie Savea, Cam Roigard, Jordie Barrett, Caleb Clarke, Anton Lienert-Brown, Rieko Ioane, Damian McKenzie, Ruben Love, Richie Mo'unga, Asafo Aumua, Xavier Numia, Fletcher Newell, Sam Darry, Cortez Ratima and Samisoni Taukei'aho



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Over the sideline 20 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

I’d go with the whole backline tbh. Is it an individual improvement or a collective improvement? The direction around the 10 ( as you mention ) is very different and the central pods in attack play with a different sustem of distribution and choices. More options.

individually I guess playets play better when playing what they are confident at. Rennie seems to have got that working.



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JW 22 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

His attitude and aggression is great for sure but what really catches my eye baz is the defteness with which he doesn’t everything.

I really think its a sign of high IQ and (learning) potential.



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GrahamVF 25 minutes ago
Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

I’ve just read his biography - a fascinating mind and a prolific writer. I’ve got a lot of reading to do. Thanks for the pointer. Really helpful.

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JW 27 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026



We know who the HC is.

I don’t know if that’s a good thing. I suspect this current group is lacking the same rugby IQ (to share around).



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Ninjin 28 minutes ago
'Massive': Rennie on Anton Segner's MOTM performance against Bulls

MOTM & WOTM works quite well.😉

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Wayneo 29 minutes ago
All Blacks pile 50 on the Bulls to remain undefeated in Greatest Rivalry tour

Not a nice thing to call the ABs game plan.

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ColinK 34 minutes ago
Two starting debuts and two timely returns for All Blacks against Bulls

Yeh sorry Wayneo, got it wrong it was 50 not 40. 😁 my point was the ABs can be physical too. But all talking does not matter now next weekend is the big test. I still have Boks as favourites, but it is clear we will be up for it.

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Red and White Dynamight 35 minutes ago
All Blacks pile 50 on the Bulls to remain undefeated in Greatest Rivalry tour

what a bloated pile of self-indulgent crap

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JW 37 minutes ago
All Blacks player ratings vs Bulls | Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 2026

Some players obviously had issues with Razors style, which is really an individual thing but I can see you might say that affected group attitude (even of those players that thought Razor was great).

Getting personal buy in is huge in sport but if you want to concentrate on team play the method of attack is the same, its just the style Rennie wants is probably more familiar. Razor used the lineout and maul as a strength for example, he (more likely Hansen) wanted BB at 10 kicking the ball out and using out forwards strengths. Rennie wants Love and Dmac running the ball back.



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