Aotearoa Rugby Pod | Rating Dave Rennie's Wallabies squad

Also a WC winning coach and the Bulls, who was like the Boks, forward dominant, is now one of the most dangerous attacking teams. Wales could definitely use someone like him. If anyone can reshape the Welsh team, he can. DOR is a far cry from what the WRU would allow though. They are just out for themselves.

The only major upset has been Ireland losing to New Zealand and Ireland were extremely poor. England are not far off NZ or SA. Scotland were better than SA for most of the match.

France had a horrendous start against ABs going 14-3 down and still won.

With more complicated playing systems, time together is vitally important and we saw clear differences in cohesion between SH and NH teams. That's not an excuse but I think it was there for all to see.

A few matches to go yet. NH Top 4 V SH Top 4 the score is 4-2. Remaining matches are Fra-Arg; Sco-Aus; Ire-Aus. Don't open the champagne yet.

Freddie Steward at fullback is literally the best 15 under a high ball in the world, he's a freak... But he's also probably the slowest professional fullback in world rugby. He shouldn't be there and I think SB may now realise that too. Steward against Kolbe and Williams was a painful watch.

Our entire attack depends on Marcus Smith. If he ever gets injured we're screwed haha. Weirdly in the second half Smith didn't receive the ball much, we started playing off 9 a lot with the centred and forwards crashing it up. He's a one man attack plan though and he's doing a good job of making scorelines look a lot better than they should. If you take Marcus out, we're not scoring tries. The attack past ten is flaccid and dead.