Jamie Wall

I don't think it's too out of the question to say, hey mate, you've got to actually prove that you can get back into this team after where you've been.

Whether he ends up there or not remains to be seen, given that he's now in the Fords.

Whether he plays in the Fords and ends up out there, does he go to the wing?

We're going to find out at some point.

Yeah, absolutely.

I feel like this is a really wise move to get an old head in, someone who's been around, someone who the players are going to respect in terms of, OK, well, if this is the guy putting our names forward, we know he knows what he's talking about.

So, yeah, I'm not massively surprised.

He did note that, you know, Graham Henry's 79 now, but he's still sharp as a tack, just in case.

Yeah.

And also, I mean, I don't know whether he's going to be public facing.

I know, remember back when Grant Fox was... Yeah, Fox, he was absolutely in the background.

And he still is.

If you're ever wondering, if you see him in the street and you want to ask him about it, he's not going to talk to you about it.

So perhaps that's the role that Graham Henry's going to play, is just to be this upstairs kind of guy pulling some strings.

And I don't mind that at all, because again, it's not just from a player's point of view, it's not just from a coaching staff point of view, because we've got all the respect.

The public are going to respond well to this.

I'm pretty sure there's going to be quite a few comments under the press conference, which you can watch all of, and this one saying, hey, what a great appointment.

I don't think you're going to find too many people who are going to be disagreeing with us.

Yeah, and that actually tracks, that's logical to me because I've always been of the thinking that yes, it would be preferable for Richard Mwangi to have stayed this whole time, to have played for the Crusaders, to have played for the All Blacks, to have

cemented a case for him to be the guy going forward for the All Blacks instead we find ourselves in this situation because he's gone to Japan but because he's been playing in Japanese rugby this whole time and this is a it's not a sabbatical he's been there for two and a half years playing in a competition that with all due respect is seen as a pretty big step down from what everyone else has been playing from what