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Ah-Khoi is not a test lock at 1.96m, he is far too short. Nor is he a renowned scrummaging lock. He must play 6 at test level or not at all.

I’m tired of the All Blacks selecting short locks and blindsides. Certainly the last two tests show that in test rugby, size matters.

23 - Owen Farrell

22 - Fin Smith

21 - Marcus Smith

20 - Alex Mitchell

19 - Henry Pollock

18 - Zander Fagerson

17 - Andrew Porter

16 - Dan Sheehan

Luke’s going to come in, herhaps at 8 and Ethan can then play 6?

His one chip (to Ardie) was actually on the money for once too! But yes, I suppose you’d be fair to say that a ‘mixed bag’ kicking performance from him is still an improvement!

Obviously he’s still excited for rugby, but at this level that little 1% shows and I think it’s clear the burden of 80 changes him from the daring guy that has 20min at the end of the game to run amock. And obviously it’s going to wear him out faster. Same goes for Ardie and Scott. Same went for Brodie and Sam where they had Scott and Vaa’i jump in for them (and Sam became a finisher).

Well if you don’t last too much long Beauden I’ve enjoyed the way you’ve come back in for the last 12 months, seemed to have some of the youth back and willingness to put the foot down again. keep it up and nice work with the obvious kicking practice showing you’re never too old to work on the skills.

Surely we can all remember when this law didn’t exist though, people where doing all sorts, jumping up in the air basketball blocking style, diving full stretch with no hope in hell of catching the ball, and it actually made it extremely difficult to get the ball wide, past the man.

The two situations are miles apart, and the problem is just like all the other laws, WR think they can make them nice and tidy and they’ll then be definable by a ref on the field. They need to do some neuroscience on themselves.

It doesn’t matter where the line is, whether it’s intent to make a tackle and you just get in the road of the ball accidently or you just making it look like you weren’t trying to block the ball, or whether the lines is making an honest attempt to catch/knock it back, or you have no hope in hell.

So just make the law what you actually want it to achieve, don’t try and make the law fit some nice sized box because you just going to have the same problems but over even more continuous situations.