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2025 Bledisloe Cup Series

2025 Bledisloe Cup Series

  • NZ in disarray, the time is now.

    Votes: 11 45.8%
  • Aus to win the Bled

    Votes: 10 41.7%
  • Split series, NZ retain Bled

    Votes: 6 25.0%
  • Aus lose both tests

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • NZ win both tests

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Joe Schmidt to switch booths at halftime

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • "Dear Wallabies, please take Razor"

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • the long suffering Wobs deserve this

    Votes: 7 29.2%
  • pole long and hard

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • pole just long

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • Total voters
    24

Dismal Pillock

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Game 1:

Sat 27 Sep
Eden Park, Auckland



Game 2

Sat 04 Oct
Optus Stadium, Perth Australia





Official NZ Team Series GIF:

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Official Australia Team Series GIF:

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waiopehu oldboy

Rocky Elsom (76)
Hotham having scans to determine whether he's sprained or broken his ankle/ lower leg (not the same one he injured earlier) plus he'll now be under concussion protocols so might get stood down for 12 days. On the brighter side both Roigard & Ratima are said to be on track to being available.
 

Sir Arthur Higgins

Bob Davidson (42)
No news on O'Connor yesterday, he is set to fly out today
Hopefully can get him to stay. I understand long term vision but save that for the end of year tour by giving edmed Donaldson and lynagh time in the hot seat.
people want to win the bled and sense a chance to genuinely do it.
Nothing bigger for the game than winning it back before World Cup.
Beyond that does cause me concern we don’t have a fly half answer.
Lynagh not really looking it. I’ll grant edmed did get better but that was a shocker in the first 25.
Donaldson - maybe with time as he does have some great attributes.
 

waiopehu oldboy

Rocky Elsom (76)
I feel like there won't be too many changes up front: Taylor for McAlister for sure & maybe the props get shuffled again? Possibly a bigger finishing loosie. ScoBar won't be dropped, nor will Vaa’i or Holland.

Carter deserves another start & WJ needs to go back to 15 (& DMac 23) so who's the 14? Or do you switch Carter to 14 & bring in Clarke? Please not Rieko, tho, nor at 13.

Proctor's D just doesn't seem up to it yet but not too many options kicking around other than *puts on helmet* AL-B unless they're gonna draft someone straight from NPC.

Barretts both stay by default unless, again, someone gets pulled in from NPC. Leicester F looked decent v Cantabs but he's got defensive issues of his own, not sure you'd want him going up against JAS & Ikitau (who I'm assuming will be available again?).

Frustrating that mid-way through Razor's second season in charge we've still got so many of the same issues as mid-way through season one, albeit he's introduced a handful of long-term prospects so at least some progress is being made.
 

Dan54

David Wilson (68)
@waiopehu oldboy ,I agree mate, there won't be many changes. I go along with the best players are already in squad, and pissed off as I was Sat night and Sunday, start of new woring week (for those not retired;)) and I back to being calm again. And so don't see any problems except for some of Combover's assistant coaches .
I pissed when I hear Combover and then Jase Ryan say the balls up were on us/me. Don't make those staements, just sort your shit out!
 

zer0

Greg Davis (50)
I feel like there won't be too many changes up front: Taylor for McAlister for sure & maybe the props get shuffled again? Possibly a bigger finishing loosie. ScoBar won't be dropped, nor will Vaa’i or Holland.

Tosi for Lomax. Papali'i for Kirifi. Barrett is fortunate that Tuipulotu is (probably) unavailable otherwise I'd have cut his deadbeat ass too. "Leadership". lol. lmao, even.

Carter deserves another start & WJ needs to go back to 15 (& DMac 23) so who's the 14? Or do you switch Carter to 14 & bring in Clarke? Please not Rieko, tho, nor at 13.

Clarke without a doubt. He was pulled from the Auckland match XV into the ABs camp on Sunday, which seems a bit of a give away.

Proctor's D just doesn't seem up to it yet but not too many options kicking around other than *puts on helmet* AL-B unless they're gonna draft someone straight from NPC.

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Barretts both stay by default unless, again, someone gets pulled in from NPC. Leicester F looked decent v Cantabs but he's got defensive issues of his own, not sure you'd want him going up against JAS & Ikitau (who I'm assuming will be available again?).

AJ-I'll-manhandle-you-into-a-maul-turnover-Lam it is then.

Basically, what I'm saying is, any and all selections and tactics must be approved by Stern Vern. We don't want some wishy washy Cantab coach and a bunch of mental midget Chiefs ruining the Eden Park vibes.
 

Ignoto

Geoff Shaw (53)
What's up with the AB's scrum? The size of the lumps in the front row is absolutely scary yet they had skates on them against the Boks pack that the Wallabies held their own on.

Hopefully the Wallabies saw the AB's struggled at set piece and we can get some disruption there because we sure as hell won't be able to replicate the Boks kicking game.
 

The Red Baron

Chilla Wilson (44)
I don’t think you guys should rush Roigard back TBH. These kinds of injuries benefit from extra caution - give him another few weeks off (pretty please?)
Yeah I think the ABs should save him for the spring tour, besides, there's nothing wrong with Christie...

Might also be worth giving Reiko another run outside of Proctor in the Bled too, just to be sure it doesn't work.
 

Dismal Pillock

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
ScoBar won't be dropped
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Barretts both stay by default
thats what keeps getting said over the last 7 years and look where its got us.

SuperCoach inherited Fozzie's failure 70%ers.... and lazily kept them all and turned them into 66%ers. FFFs
albeit he's introduced a handful of long-term prospects
Not sure there. Parker is still Liam Squire in training wheels. Wallace Sititi seems to have the right mindset but does he have the right physicality. Seems like a junior boys Rob Veletini so far
 

Wilson

Tim Horan (67)
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thats what keeps getting said over the last 7 years and look where its got us.

SuperCoach inherited Fozzie's failure 70%ers.... and lazily kept them all and turned them into 66%ers. FFFs
If you really want to see the Barretts dropped, I know one way to get it done - have them lose the Eden Park record/Bledisloe and Robertson will be forced to live up to his Razor moniker...
 
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Dismal Pillock

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Brett Papworth scooting around Warwick Taylor and over the tryline.

Mortifying scenes.

I was sitting behind the posts the last time Aus beat NZ at Eden Park in 1986.
 
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