Justin Marshall Recaps First All Blacks Squad Naming of 2024, Including Surprise Selections

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Published 2024-06-24
Justin Marshall - former All Blacks halfback and current Sky Sport rugby commentator - joins Martin Devlin on It's Only Sport to recap the first All Blacks squad naming for 2024. Coach Scott Robertson unveiled his group of 32 on Monday evening, which featured five players yet to play test rugby and the return of veteran halfback TJ Perenara.

Marshall and Devlin go through all the main talking points of the squad named including new caps, surprise omissions, Scott Barrett being chosen as the new captain, only three locks being selected, and more.

Listen to the full interview with Martin Devlin & Justin Marshall at theplatform.kiwi/

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All Comments (21)
  • @joedennehy386
    Get a camera for heavens sake Marty, Sean has one, and teach Marshy to zoom. With two reserve props weighing 145 kilos, and paddy t 130 kilos, no one's going to beat us up
  • Williams, Aumua and Tosi coming off the bench!!!!....... scary shit man.
  • Welcome to All Blacks head Razor! Really hope allblacks have winning start under this new regime. The same people who came out swinging at Forster is out and about, already, and we haven't played a single game yet. Really hope Razor and co. Know what they are doing, and ready for both the good and the bad.
  • Justin Marshall. The man that instigated the removal of the South African teams from Super rugby since back in the day.
  • @center__mass
    two props ex number 8s these guys are big and mobile with ball skills , looks great going forward
  • If there was a standout superstar in SR this season it was Hoskin Sotutu. I hope SB and Patrick stay healthy and we blood new locks as we do not have Bok like depth there. Sadly, I believe the same is true at 9-10.
  • Was surprised Justin concedes already that we wont dominate in the forwards. Maybe he should have a chat with Verne.
  • It's obvious the coaching group are looking for mental toughness, (if you listen to their comments)
  • @Tom_McMurtry
    The teams we lost to were ha I g their best runs in history when they did and were performing at the best in the world. They were no longer the third tier teams we always beat and thus the record wasn't going to stay and losing it didn't mean the same loss of caliber
  • How did Foster get the job ? And Cane ? Should have been Razor with Whitelock as the captain !
  • VC era with Blues coming Afta Razor tenure. Let's await 2025 season to see repeat.
  • @azawilson1
    Having the super coach, we should smash England, but if razors abs, just scape pass England or even lose be very interesting 🤔 let's go England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧
  • @lesterwyoung
    I'm always amused my the term "roll up our sleeves" when the jerseys have short sleeves!
  • I feel like they need more bigger guys and need more size The forwards really seem to lack the muscle to get over the gain line so you can play some of that passing and skills based game
  • Where's the bulk? Are we gonna keep doing this false narrative? Out of NZ ireland france and SA's rwc squads SA had the shortest and lightest forward squad... check the numbers.
  • @CoolCoyote
    good that sotutu didnt make it, but he also should have got rid of woke perenara and perofeta cheese is terribly overrated, seems jk has an influence, he was a decent rugby player but he couldnt coach for shit. and what? sititi? no should have been very fast number 8 IOSE from the horrorchokers in there. since we dont have the best halfback in the world at the moment(Cam Roigard) hes injured maybe go with Christie hes easily the next best. Light on locks? only 3 locks. and va'ai is really a 6 hes not a lock. so really we have 2 and half locks. we need retallick back badly. George Bell I hope he gets heaps of game time hes bit of a dane coles very fast. taylor meh hes ok.crap thrower tho. Ethan de Groot yip pretty good. Ethan Blackadder even better again hes excellent. Samipeni Finau um nope hes another lucky one.
  • I do not agree with the captaincy he gets too many cards and could lose the game