Leicester issue an England-worrying injury update on Ollie Chessum

No, the contractors offer the most experienced support in specific areas, ensuring you get everything right and are able to educate and have your own staff running efficiently and to standard. They are a smarter more efficient way to cover skill deficiencies within your core business where and when you need them.

You're talking about buying a service, very different to employing someone fulltime for a short term (of course medical and fitness are the most important areas in sport so they are permanent employees as they're never a foodbill, as apposed to say a surgeon).

That said, we could hardly have been more disrupted in our prep and intra-game this week. It feels like our defensive patterns rely more heavily on connection than others and chopping and changing personnel hurts disproportionately.

Why Schmidt decided to make so many changes makes little sense to me.

This week is critical - a truly statement game. Fall apart and any optimism after Wales is lost. Take it deep and we can sustain the optimism

Of course, if you ask me, any coach other than Razor is not likely to pick any of those players even if they are better, form hardly even matters now, it's about cohesion and predictability and going against the grain would wipe the foundation of the All Blacks practices. But hey, if a coach wants to do such a thing why not have it be possible even if no one does it?

Ah! You're last paragraph is were you're going wrong imo, and kinda relates to your question above too. Those fringe ABs are leaving at their peak or just before, so when you asked 'could not be replaced from within at the ABs' I think you're missing a whole lot of factors like form and continued development once that player has left, and dips in specific areas within that remaining AB environment. Think about the 10 dilemma and how that could have been solved by being able to bring back the likes of Sopoaga, Cruden, even possibilities like Anscombe, during those turbulent years around 2017 without a clear first five, ditto more recently with Dmac and BB while they were on sabbatical, and now Mo'unga when all you've got is Dmac.

So there is obviously going to be an upside as well as a downside.

Take Duhan of Scotland, born and bred SA. Didn't get a chance and ended up in Scotland where he played hard and gave his best and got chosen to play for Scotland. Now he got the most tries for them.

He didn't jump from Boks to Scots. The Boks refused his talent and the Scots did not. That doesn't make him a mercenary. A mercenary is more someone like Jean Kleyn, a SA player who played for the Irish and now SA. 2 different international teams.

Same as you Jake. A coach mercenary. Why coach in any other country if you are so loyal and old school? You have your opinions, and others have different opinions.

SA only use SA born players, no matter where they play in the world. That won't change. Get with the times or fall behind. The eligibility rules were outdated and got updated. They went with the times.