James Parsons

And, mate, he gets gain line and lightning quick ball every time.

Okay, so Leicester's doing a great job in those carries, but not necessarily always getting game line and lightning quick ball, but because it tightens the defence, it frees up opportunities.

So both work, but I just think in a test match where it's so crucial, like the margins are so fine, him in that sort of loose forward eight role, like I'm hypothesising here, like I don't, I will probably select this team, but I'm trying to answer the question.

I think that could work.

And then you've got a lock.

I think you'd still need a lock on the bench.

So just in case something goes wrong, that you can have the ability to move people around.

So before you get into the comment section, Slaughter, we're playing.

Imagine like a short line out and the midfield was like, obviously the first receiver, whoever it is, and you've got like Geordie Barrett or Quinn Tapia at the pointy end of the triangle and you've just got Tava Tava Nawai and Faya Nuku coming off their shoulders with Will Jordan out the back.

Like, holy dooly, that would be, you'd just look up and you'd go, right, okay, we're going to need to shut down time and space here.

It would just be threats galore and

Where that becomes actually realistic is the last 20 minutes.

Like, against tiring bodies, fresh legs, fresh power, not only, I think, attacking, but as we've just discussed, both of them defensively in those breakdown areas, it becomes a nightmare.

Because then you've got Adi Savio as well, who's looking for a steal.

You've got Wallace Sotiti.

You've got, you know, most of our locks can get in and around the ball.

You know, it's an exciting prospect that I'm genuinely...

putting time and effort into trying to answer the question because it's not as far-fetched as it was three weeks ago.

For me, anyway.

But that was me being a stubborn forward probably more than anything else.