Angleterre : Marcus Smith prolonge aux Harlequins

Will Jordan is the best attacking fullback in world rugby, solid under the high ball, and statistics reveal a good tackler. Leave him at fullback to counter-attack.

Jordie Barrett is a playmaking 12 in the mold of Aaron Mauger and would be most effective playing with a big heavy power running 13 to take short crashballs (or be decoy runners). Leicester Fianga'anuka, Levi Aumua, and AJ Lam all fit this mold of 13.

Rassie selected five diff #9's and four diff #10s in a variety of combos, among them guys liek Grant Williams and Jayden Hendrikse amd his brother Jordan, and Morne Van Den Berg, all with a handful of caps between them.

Just one example. 4 diff THPs and 4 diff lineout callers are others.

If you are arguing Razor has been as experimental as Rassie you are way off beam!

PSDT has won player of the year twice in the last 2 years? Where? In 2019 and 2024, that’s not 2 years.

It’s Dupont, not DuPont.

I think the more likely scenario here is that Razor will experiment more in selection next year. While biding his time for Mounga to come back.

He wasn’t going to risk a sub 70% first year out. But now that he’s got his feet under the desk, he’ll be forgiven a bit more for losses in the name of building depth.

He can always reference how necessary it is given how much further ahead the competition is in the depth department.

The All Blacks will have a worse win ratio next year as they bring in new players. But his job is more secure.