The Silver Fern

The difference in the NRL is you can play in 3 different grades in the same year. Where you can't do that in New Zealand rugby with the way the season is structured. Just look at Makasini from last years schoolboy game. He played SG Ball, Jersey Flegg, NSW cup and made his NRL debut all in the same year.

I think it’s difficult for Razor to get rid of the ill discipline within the All Blacks from the Foster era. We see it in the Chiefs & why they can’t win important games & it’s rares it head in the All Blacks

I think the All Blacks should select the team more on combinations to create a level of cohesion. For example the chiefs 8, 9, 10,12,13 combination. Siti, Ratima, Dmac,
Tupea & Lienert-Brown. With a Crusaders back 3 of Reece, Jordan & Leicester

Plus people tend to make a bigger deal out of it if they choose the Warriors. Tevita Naufahu went to the Dolphin’s nobody cared

I definitely think Lakai should start at 8. With Siti coming off the bench. I would like to see Lakai start a game at 7 and Siti at 8. The issue for Siti playing 8 is that he & Ardie are to similar & Ardie is our best player so you are not dropping him. Potentially Lakai takes over at 7 after the World Cup and Siti then can start at 8.

@nostrildamus I think the opportunity to try this out is on the end of year tour particularly against Wales.

@Grooter it’s another loss where it could have been a career defining win for Razor. But it is also some what predictable in the Razor era to drop the hardest game and the most important game of the tour

@canefan Roigard is our most influential player at the moment only problem is he is injury prone. Definitely think the game would have panned out differently if Roigard was on the field when England went down to 14 players