Wayne Pivac is back in rugby eight months after his Wales exit

Jacob is a tricky fella to tackle isn’t he, I’d love to see those skills on the international stage as well. Big Jim showed he’s a must as well, especially over his opposition tonight. Jordan, Reihana, Hotham, Springer, Soifoloi, all too good for a ragged Highlanders group. Imagine all their bad luck, and on top of it the oppositions best playmaker gets onto the field some 60 minutes before he’s supposed to. Bugger.

Also, Barrett is playing in the best club side in the world which is making it easy for him to shine. And he’s not won sh*t just yet. All the comps are coming to the business end so we’ll see how he ends the season.

And you are confusing running a round a lot with intensity. If you don’t think Leinster vs Munster or the Bulls vs Stormers is intense you simply haven’t watched enough rugby being played the northern hemisphere comps.

Purely in terms of playing talent the NH comps are streets ahead. NH comps made up of seven of the world’s top 10 nations. SR has three and that includes a struggling Australia.

I like watching SR and thankfully it’s getting more competitive but it’s not superior to URC. And it’s not in the same ballpark as Champions Cup.

You may not agree but you’ve given no evidence to support it.

The pattern of picking a huge THP and big bloke behind goes all the way down to the 20’s, where a couple of years back they had a 130 kilo THP and Posolo Tuilagi [150 k’s] behind him.

As far as NZ goes, the forwards average out at 116 k’s [I prefer EDG to Tamaiti as I think he’s still the starting #1], the backs at 95 kilos, so the total is +21 kilos which supports the theory!