GB and France have Dubai title hopes dashed by SVNS Series heavyweights

FYI Nepo is on the outer at Toulouse, behind both Aldegheri and Merkler at THP and poss even Ainuu, if the came back to NZ he'd be behind all three of Lomax and Tosi and Newell. He might even be behind Tamaiti playing as a #3.

So that sorts your problem out for you.

Now if Rieko was 11 and Tele'a moved to 14, to position Jordan at 15, I think the ABs hose the WC opposition with that team. No Barrett is a HUGE plus, as is Tele'a in his best position, and possibly Rieko.

I'm not talking or think retrospectively, no point in doing that.

The cumulitve effect of holding player salaries for a few years while overseas builds up with each one leaving etc and maximises payouts even more or however those schemes are supposed to wrk.

This is just talk NZR based but I suppose multiple nations could join together to make it even more worthwhile?

And I thought your editor was being upto date with happenings. He seems to have settled in really well this year (both teams did look a shambles though).

I think the money compares far more reasonably these days so not a lot more movement I wouldn't think. When did the last Springbok depart, Kolisi a couple of years ago and now they've brought him back? Aussie might not have much more movement away but they just seem to have it be the wrong (or right for the team getting the player) time or position/player and so get disrupted from their exodus more it feels (they have more come back too). There's probably some simply mathmatical equation that explains it all.

It was a great question regardless and I was a bit torn in considering it, because on one hand we only have 5 pro sides and I've wanted to see quite a few players gone from teams for a while now in order to see others get a better chance before it's too late, but then we also have a great domestic league that does suffer from a bit of player drain when AB's etc aren't playing in their teams.

Perhaps the mathmatical equation is that the fringe experienced guys, who you normally think hold on too long, can go and technically keep their chances alive, while those that had been blocked don't get targeted to leave, and I get the best of both worlds seeing them fill out the provincial teams while getting more rotation of them at Super level?

No doubt Razor would try and put Blackadder out in the backline, oh my lord can you imagine what that jack in the box would look like being so close to the ball, but never fast enough to get it, all the time!

112 is the number, or if you think he looks more like the 95kg his AB profile says, somewhere between 112 and 105kg. He's 1m 96, George North and Andre Esterhuizen both 1 93 and they are either side of that 112 number, so that would be pretty bang on.

Even 5kg's would make an enormous difference. My point is that he's not bothering to build any muscle (which is OK because he hasn't been bashing it anywhere near as much the last few months) in order to be that midfield rock, so let someone else be it.