Bryn Hall

He's hard, he's tough, he's experienced.

Those are the sorts of attributes when you're going to South Africa, really important.

And of course, Peter Lukai has been part of the frame.

I mean, we are blessed.

at the moment.

And look at Braden Yossi, the game that he had for the Hurricanes.

I mean, he is an outstanding talent.

Christian, Leo, Willie.

So many options there, and unfortunately, only so many vacancies.

I mean, when Dave Rennie looks at all his stats and puts them into his, whatever it is, algorithm or whatever, or into his brain, it all spits out.

It's just going to be fascinating to see who...

comes in um who stays in maybe who exits i i don't know it it's just something as i say for some reason and maybe it's because kids like playing flanker or loose forward or number eight or whatever yeah we just always seem to have so many good options there yeah when i made this list went through the stats and you know you had signa you had i mean some of these guys aren't necessarily available this year but you had to include them as a point of comparison signa papali karifi

Two things.

Firstly, I'd be fascinated to break down those stats into what they were when he was playing in the backs and what they've been when they've been playing in the forwards because I think that's the key to it.

The second thing, I was a little bit surprised to hear Dave Reddy say that because to me, we've got here a ready-made,

counter to the bomb squad or a potential counter to the bomb squad where the South Africans could go in with a 7-1 split or a 6-2 split.

If you've got a guy in there who can do, and I don't doubt that he will do many of the things that you need of a loose forward in test rugby.

I think for a long time the jury was out and it was like, can he sustain this?

It was really interesting.

I remember early on in the year doing a radio interview with James Marshall and they'd picked Leicester at centre and I said to him, what do you see his position as, centre or wing?