Scotland's Stafford McDowall caps landmark month with new deal

Yes, as I said, the backs are the issue. Whether this evokes a coaching change, we'll see.

The results/performance balance is valid but in some ways is also pointless. Because coaches/players are judged on results.

For me, the future looks bright. After 2020, it didn't.

After the surgery, Bell had to adapt his scrummaging and learn a new way to operate under scrum guru Mike Cron.

“It’s been different and feels different but at the end of the day, it’s head down, bum up and push as hard as I can to do what’s best for the team," Bell remarked.

"...Mike has been a big part of that so he’s been coming down to Sydney and been helping us."

If you consider we could have lost all three of those games vs England, certainly the last 2. The results and %s would look very different but we are talking about 2 moments in the whole season that swung the result our way instead of England's way. When thinking about the whole season those moments effected the results but not how we played over the year.

Much of what I thought was bad about Foster's first year I also see in Razor's first year.

The attack in particular looks much worse than Last year, with pretty much all the same players. At times the backs look like they have never played together before, despite this being the third year of that core backline. Schmidt is clearly a massive loss as an attack coach. Light years ahead of Holland and possibly anyone else in NZ at the moment.

This policy encourages NZ players to play in Super Rugby until age 28-29 when their market value is at its highest and very likely to leave NZ anyway as NZR can no longer afford them (ie Richie Mo'unga, Shannon Frizell).

After the first 15 minutes or so Scotland took over, and I felt they could have won by more.