James O'Connor aux Crusaders, c'est fait !

Razor (and possibly Cullen?) is the perfect coach to keep fueling Jordies own flame. Foster on the other hand has to be a people person because he's always trying to douse everyones because of his own lack of enterprise.

I didn't want to nark on the man but we still have Reiks waiting to be ignited as well. His own play when he first moved to center was full of threat and tact. He could cut in just as easily as swing out and had some great ball handling to put people away with. While we haven't seen much more of that since I think he has at least been working hard on his defence and his books under Foster and Schmidt, and could turn into a Conrad (or even Nonu) one day. I'm not quite so sure Jordie has been making the same progress in the meantime.

I've been really happy with Jordies workons this year but that Final was a big learning curve and I've not really sure I've seen the calmness required to pull off Nonu type plays through his career so far. In fact he has often been the opposite and been a bit ropey when he was in more of a playmaker role at 15, I do think he has all the skills and desire to make these sorts of plays though, just having such a wide scope as a 'triple' threat put's a big demand on being able to read the game. So perhaps I might not go too much further than trying to use that big boot, and keeping it simple really. Like Nonu did.

I'm happy with all those 10 and 15 pictures myself, especially the ones where Jordan is playing more of a hand. He is someone who certainly could do with some sort of 'double' threat to help his line breaking ability and I certainly think he has some sort of innate skill to do the right thing. Sadly it's not going to happen with Beaudie. I think this is going to be retirement. 2nd start back playing with some courage (he actually did run the ball after all) and he's concussed again, not good.

Trouble is for this team, it could be a completely different 10, 12, 13. That shouldn't stop Razor from encouraging all the options the All Blacks have in those positions, right now.

This idea you've an impact ten that the Allblacks seem to have adopted makes no sense when it's not a highly attritional position like a loose forward.

Halfback requires two because it's vital to the speed of the attack and is somewhat attritional. However the expectation should be that the halfbacks and second five cover ten so the Allblacks can free up another larger body on the bench with an offensive large loose forward or outside back.

In comparison of how ALB's head clash incident was dealt with, it wouldn't have been given a yellow or sin bin by Rugby League referees, just a penalty, on report, play on.

So far Rugby Union have copied from Rugby League:

Gaol line drop out.

50-22 (40-20).

Leave you to it ….