2025 Bledisloe Cup Series

[zer0]

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.

 

[rugbyAU]

Wallabies squad announced on Thursday

 

[emuarse]

Hotham's injury confirmed as a fracture just above the ankle. No time frame for a return yet but EOYT at the earliest one assumes.

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But how do we know if this is le bones of Monsiour Hotham, eh?

 

[emuarse]

Weird to be agreeing with you. Gordon is in my mind the better WB starter.

Jake Gordon is going to be a bit rusty, so I'd give him 20 -30 minutes in the second half.
Then maybe change them around for the second game.

 

[whitefalcon]

Lets hope neither Gordon nor McDermott get injured during the bleds

Then we really need to get some time into Lonergan on the spring tour.

 

[Major Tom]

Jake Gordon is going to be a bit rusty, so I'd give him 20 -30 minutes in the second half.
Then maybe change them around for the second game.

Play him this weekend for the tahs.

 

[Mr Pilfer]

There are quite a few players that they should release to Super Rugby Aus, that could be one of the great benefits of this comp e.g. Potter, Daugunu, Canham, NCD, BPA, Samu, Flook, Lonergan, Stewart.

What’s the bet none of them get released

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Cam Roigard & 12 other AB released for NPC:

Taranaki: Josh Lord

Counties Manukau: Cam Roigard

Auckland: Caleb Clarke, Rieko Ioane

Wellington: Peter Lakai, Kyle Preston, Ruben Love

Tasman: Leicester Fainga'anuku

Waikato: Samipeni Finau, Luke Jacobson, Anton Lienert-Brown

Otago: George Bower

Bay of Plenty: Pasilio Tosi

 

[Tex]

It being now what, 23 years since we last held the Bledisloe, I'm going into the matches with the traditional expectation of getting spanked at Eden Park and maybe hoping we turn it on in Perth.

0-2 to the Darkness.

 

[John S]

While I'm still pessimistic, I don't reckon it will be a spanking. It will be close. We've done pretty well this year (touch wood) in keeping the scores relatively close for the most part in the games we've lost.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

GOLDEN opportunity for Aus.

Let's Review:

Aus:

-have proper crafty coach.
-players have belief and are never out of the fight in the last 20.
-JAS

NZ:

-Supercoach has no idea WFT is going on
-assistants have no idea WFT is going on
-no captain
-no leaders
-no relief from Barretts
-bottleless gits
-cahnt spake
-we all cahnt spake

 

[Rob42]

GOLDEN opportunity for Aus.

Let's Review:

Aus:

-have proper crafty coach.
-players have belief and are never out of the fight in the last 20.
-JAS

NZ:

-Supercoach has no idea WFT is going on
-assistants have no idea WFT is going on
-no captain
-no leaders
-no relief from Barretts
-bottleless gits
-cahnt spake
-we all cahnt spake

NZ:
- Eden Park.

 

[Pfitzy]

nor will Vaa’i

Excellent - the ABs need more clapping fuckwits in the team.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

With Reece dropped he's gotta do double shifts...

 

[rugbyAU]

NZ have 13 guys playing in the NOC this weekend, we have zero squad members playing in Super Rugby AU

Also, why are we having seven days off after a crap performance in Sydney before going to Auckland, so probably having 2-3 sessions before Auckland while not including JOC (James O'Connor)

similar poor preparation heading into the Lions

 

[John S]

NZ have 13 guys playing in the NOC this weekend, we have zero squad members playing in Super Rugby AU

Also, why are we having seven days off after a crap performance in Sydney before going to Auckland, so probably having 2-3 sessions before Auckland while not including JOC (James O'Connor) (James O'Connor)

similar poor preparation heading into the Lions

Guys can't win - if they didn't have the week off and got a raft of soft tissue injuries it'd be "there's something wrong with their training" or "you can't run a team so hard in the off week"

 

[Slim 293]

NZ have 13 guys playing in the NOC this weekend, we have zero squad members playing in Super Rugby AU

Also, why are we having seven days off after a crap performance in Sydney before going to Auckland, so probably having 2-3 sessions before Auckland while not including JOC (James O'Connor) (James O'Connor)

similar poor preparation heading into the Lions

The team flies out to Auckland on Sunday morning... Super Rugby AU is being played in Narrabri and Perth on Saturday night.