Hurricanes coach explains snubbing of top France-eligible lock prospect

I just don't see an English win. Boks by 20+

As for the AB's, I can't argue there neither. I will always support the SH over the NH, call it SH bias, but the arrogance of the Irish and French just gets my heckles up. I don't think the French stands a chance against the AB's. I predict the AB's to win by at least 12-15 points.

I just say it as I see it. Du Point is a very good player, but that doesn't necessarily make him a good person. I'm not arguing his personality. I don't know him, just how he play.

I am guessing you have watched Roigard play a number of times, but have never actually watched Dupont play. You have heard the hype, maybe watched him in the QF vs. South Africa, but other than that have never watched him. I am Hurricanes and NZ supporter and love Roigard, but as well as being one of, if not the best ever at the core roles of a 9, he also wins turnovers like Josh VDF, has the vision and tactical kicking game of the very best 10s, and the strength and finishing ability of Telea or Kolbe.

I hope he has a shocker on Saturday, or at the very least Roigard and Ratima can limit the damage he does on Saturday.

You are conflating your feelings about France only sending development teams to tour with Dupont's ability, which are not related. Don Bradman never toured India, does that mean Kane Williamson is a better batsman than him?

The way he cried about the reffing when the Boks exited them from the last world cup was very sad. Yes, I know us Kiwis were a bit sore after the final but the players weren't whining and moaning like Dupont.

No, he wouldn't be in my Allblacks team, we've three very promising halfbacks. Dupont isn't just greedy he disrespected his first five I noticed at the last cup which is a big no no in NZ.

If he carves up the Allblacks and leads the French to a dominant victory then I'll stand corrected.

I don't really follow six nations as it's an intensely boring style of rugby where players lie all over the ruck but it looks like Ireland has won it twice since 2019 and the French only once?

Grand slams are just icing on the cake, teams would rather take two tournaments over one 'grand slam'.

If we picked Feyi-Waboso at 10 we'd get a similar result.

You see how stupid this is right? The fact that no player before 1987 could be a great by your metrics is another weird issue.

Lomu only got to play a singular world cup at his best due to his serious health challenge and yes, although he didn't quite manage to win the 95 cup everyone knows the issue the Allblacks encountered immediately prior to the final.

In 1999 he also made a huge impact and drove a weak Allblacks team to the semifinal.

It's unfair to compare O'Driscoll to Lomu as even today a clone team of 1995 Lomus would be the first team everyone would pick.