Uncapped squad

[cashead]

OK, so let's say the incoming Welsh and Scottish tour does go ahead. Wales and Scotland both arrive in time to get some training in after the 14-day self-isolation period like the responsible good boys that they are. Unfortunately, the All Blacks squad, all of whom are capped, have gone overseas for some unfathomable reason and are unavailable. The NZRU has seen the cut of your gibberish and have decided to have you select a squad of uncapped players to play the test matches. 3 hookers, 5 props, 5 locks, 6 loose forwards, 3 halfbacks, 2 first-fives, 4 midfielders, 5 back three-quarters

Hookers
Ash Dixon (Highlanders)
Kurt Eklund (Blues)
Ricky Riccitelli (Hurricanes)

Props
Oliver Jager (Crusaders)
Ben May (Hurricanes)
Reuben O'Neill (Chiefs)
Marcel Renata (Blues)
Aidan Ross (Chiefs)

Locks
Michael Allardice (Chiefs)
Gerard Cowley-Tuioti (Blues)
Quinten Strange (Crusaders)
Jack Whetton (Highlanders)

Lock/Loose Forward
Mitchell Dunshea (Crusaders)
Tom Robinson (Blues)

Loose Forwards
Tom Christie (Crusaders)
Blake Gibson (Blues)
Tom Sanders (Crusaders)
Hoskins Sotutu (Blues)

Halfbacks
Bryn Hall (Crusaders)
Sam Nock (Blues)
Jonathan Taumateine (Hurricanes)

Five-Eighths
Otere Black (Blues)
James Marshall (Hurricanes)

Midfielders
TJ Faiane (Blues)
Alex Nankivell (Chiefs)
Rob Thompson (Highlanders)
Thomas Umaga-Jensen (Highlanders)

Back Three-quarters
Leicester Fainga'anuku (Crusaders)
Wes Goosen (Hurricanes)
Will Jordan (Crusaders)
Shaun Stevenson (Chiefs)
Mark Telea (Blues)

[morepork]

A little OT, but how is life in the civilized world?

Simon Bridges seems to be really crushing it.

Big aroha peeps.

[cashead]

If by "it," you mean his chances of ever being PM, then yeah, I agree.

We're pretty much on the verge of being back down to 0 cases, but I'm bracing for a spike in numbers when symptoms from the idiots that went and flouted lockdown rules start showing. Hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

It is nice to have a head of government that isn't a completely worthless moron, so there's that.