All Blacks latest – Blacks back to full strength

All Blacks latest – Blacks back to full strength

24 Aug 2011

Keo.co.za brings you news from the All Blacks’ camp.

Blacks back to full strength The All Blacks have named their strongest combination to face Australia in Brisbane on Saturday.

The 22 features multiple changes from the side that lost to the Springboks in Port Elizabeth. Cory Jane and Zac Guildford start on the wings, while Mils Muliaina runs on at fullback.

Piri Weepu displaces Jimmy Cowan in the No 9 jersey, while the forward pack will be altered. Jerome Kaino is rested after last week’s clash with Boks and Adam Thomson shifts to the blindside to accommodate the return of Richie McCaw. Sam Whitelock will partner Brad Thorn in the second row, while Kieran Read takes his place at No 8.

New Zealand - 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Adam Thomson, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brad Thorn 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock
Subs: 16 Andrew Hore, 17 John Afoa, 18 Ali Williams, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Andy Ellis, 21 Colin Slade, 22 Isaia Toeava


28 Comments

  • 1.Brads: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 09:36 am

    All due respect to the Aussies, but we will take this and inflict some wop ar-se in the process.

  • 2.Hitlar: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 09:54 am

    cory jane is like a sloth, he can sidestep his way up the turf like a sloth does to twigs on a tree. But at the end of the day hes got no straight line speed, infact i would put money on plod to out trot him in a 100 metre mud dash.

  • 3.Brads: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 10:24 am

    @Hitlar(Black Out)-2:
    My guess is you have lost a worrying lot of cash in your life on Earth.

  • 4.wallabie.: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 11:41 am

    What Cory Jane would pay to get this off youtube….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhPvSE3Tkc

  • 5.Te Rangatira: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 12:09 pm

    Jane for first try,

  • 6.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 12:23 pm

    Great to see Tarzan back, sensational team player when on form.

  • 7.Black Magic: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 13:39 pm

    @Hitlar(Black Out)-2:

    You obviously have about as much rugby knowledge as krusty the clown

  • 8.Black Magic: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 13:42 pm

    @wallabie.(wallabie.)-4:

    That was obviously before the ABs gave him brain damage by exposing his weak game in AK

  • 9.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 13:50 pm

    Finally

    They should’ve started him last week

  • 10.the one: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 14:45 pm

    @Hitlar(Black Out)-2: i seem to remember Cory Jane sidestepping his way from his 22 and burning boks enroute to the tryline 4 weeks ago

  • 11.Cane 73: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 15:24 pm

    @wallabie.(wallabie.)-4: Hysterical…….That you believe that discredits Jane as a player. Especially when your resident fly-half criminal (or has Cooper stopped breaking into houses these days) is all show on attack but a complete pansy on defence.

  • 12.DAS: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 15:33 pm

    Still despondent about Guildford being selected over Gear. Especially if he flees overseas. GH called Gear the best winger in the world on EOYT last year…sigh.

  • 13.Cane 73: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 15:43 pm

    @DAS(DAS)-12: Couldn’t agree with you more… almost, Gear could be Lomu-esque given a bit of space. Drop Woodcock for Hammett, Slade for Evans (can the overseas based player rule as we’re deep in the smelly stuff should Carter get injured), and bring Gear in for ‘only catch on special occasions’ Toeava – he’s a liability.

  • 14.DAS: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 15:56 pm

    @Cane 73(Cane 73)-13: I at least understand Toeava — he’s got massive skills (best line-breaker in S 15, massive boot, abilityt o beat a man one on one, etc), they just haven’t translated into test match rugby. My theory is his natural home is #15, not on the wing, but of the 5 best fullbacks in the world, NZ probably has 4 of them.

    That being said, Guildford?? He’s got straight-line pace, and a great workrate…but is anyone scared of marking him? Gear’s power and stepping, plus his nose for the tryline is simply a difference maker in big games. Guildford doesn’t have any of that. To me it’s like saying someone is a great prop, but their scrummaging is weak. To be a test match wionger, you better be an elite finisher. Guildford isn’t.

  • 15.DonutDunning: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 16:46 pm

    @DAS(DAS)-14: Guildford would make sense to me if they didn’t already have a better fast, high workrate winger in Corey Jane.

    But I fail to understand why Henry would not include one of the two proven gamebreakers in Gear and Sivivatu for the remaining wing spot. Especially when he will be going for the reliability of Muliaina over the more dangerous Dagg too.

    While extremely efficient, a back three of Jane, Guildford and Muliaina doesn’t exactly strike fear into the opposition.

  • 16.DAS: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 17:01 pm

    @DonutDunning(DonutDunning)-15: 100% agreed. Guildford has produced one very fine test match, and that was at home agains the Springbok B team. With Jane, he’s consistently played flawless rugby in over 20 test matches.

    My hunch is the back 3 in elimination matches will be Muliana, with Dagg on the left wing and Jane on the right, with Toeava covering both the midfield and the back 3 from the bench. Not my preferred back 3, but at least all 3 are prove, mistake-free operators at test match level.

  • 17.SexyTime: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 17:04 pm

    No SBW altogether?? Wow…

  • 18.SexyTime: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 17:15 pm

    When I think emotionally. All through S15 season I’ve been having nightmares about the great players NZ have at their disposal:
    Ranger
    Sivi
    Gear
    SBW
    Dagg
    Ben Smith
    Fruean
    Crockett (MONSTER)

    Not seeing them in the starting line up gives me hope.

    Sure, Zac runs nice and straight but did so off SBW and Fruean, and yes off Dan.
    Jane is class.
    What the Springboks would do for wings like Rene and Hosea.
    Toeava over SBW?

    Springboks vs this All Blacks team. Bring it on, will be a close game.

  • 19.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 23:41 pm

    @wallabie.(wallabie.)-4:
    Why, he has this on You tube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4RYbEMtXRA
    Notice alot of tries against the wallabies.

  • 20.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    24 Aug 2011, 23:48 pm

    @Hitlar(Black Out)-2:
    You are so behind the times.
    10-15 years ago, sure wingers needed all the speed possible but didnt really need to kick or ctatch many high balls.
    Jane has enough speed for a winger,he knows how to catch,kick,step,tackle and score tries.
    You may have the fastest man on the field but if he cant do anything else, i would rather have that sloth any day. I would have Jane over any of the South African wingers.

  • 21.DonutDunning: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 03:27 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-19: I was expecting that youtube link to be this one for some reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6o7G4gPB8M

    I’d have to agree on your point about wingers though, the Wallabies back three was always most dangerous when one or both of the wingers were fullbacks in their own right. Roff, Walker, Tune, and to an extent even guys like Ashley-Cooper and Gerrard in recent years.

    Rod Davies is a prime example. You just can’t teach that sort of explosive speed, but it’s all for nought if you don’t have the defence, kicking and highball skills to back it up.

  • 22.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 06:06 am

    @DonutDunning(DonutDunning)-21:
    Haha donut, thats link was going to be the climax, oh well

  • 23.Nuk3Fr33k1w1: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 06:39 am

    @Hurricane(Hurricane)-19:

    Yup excellent vid. I really like this one about Giteau

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEkNfX5xY1g&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

  • 24.stew: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 08:03 am

    As New Zealand’s rugby royalty, McCaw’s lifestyle regularly fills the society pages and always with reference to how the modest leader puts his country and his sport first.

    He turned down an invitation to the wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton saying he wanted to focus on the Super 15 rugby competition.

    He turned down lucrative offers to play for European clubs saying he would rather play in New Zealand.

    He was the strong and determined frontman for television commercials inspiring people in Christchurch following the devastating earthquakes which wrecked his home city this year.

    As a flying enthusiast and licensed pilot he was able to pull enough strings to get a 66-year-old DC3 out of an aviation museum to fly his Crusaders teammates to a match when an ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue volcano had grounded more modern commercial aircraft.

    What a guy !!!!

  • 25.henno: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 08:22 am

    gonna be a wet night…

  • 26.henno: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 08:22 am

    http://www.yr.no/place/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/long.html

  • 27.whatever: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 09:35 am

    What a guy?

    Jeez Stew careful, that sounds like more than simple admiration :)

  • 28.rossoneri: Reply to this comment
    25 Aug 2011, 15:06 pm

    Any truth to the news that Carter and McCaw have been recalled?

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