Jamie Wall

There's a ton of options before least if I'm going to argue.

Yeah, yeah, I'd agree.

I'd agree with that.

And that is in a position where there are, we talked about depth issues.

There's certainly none at lock, considering that we've still got Fabian Holland to come back from injury as well.

It is interesting because I kind of thought Scott Barrett would be back by now for the Crusaders as they head towards...

Yeah, yeah.

So that is interesting.

And how that affects his return to play, it's probably something we need to ask the Crusaders about at some stage and what their plan is around him.

Because at the moment, the All Blacks are probably just saying, well, when you're back, you're back.

Because he's taking a break.

So, yeah, I think that obviously the whole point of him taking a break was to get his body right for what's going to be a massive season coming up.

But I would find it hard to think that he's not in the plan for the All Blacks going forward.

Whether he's captain, though, that's another question as well.

Yeah, and that's the interesting one for me, is that, like, yeah, we're going to have this debate about the captain.

You've got to remember, though, that the Olympics are playing all up, what is it, 17 times this year, which is the most in a long, long time.

You've got to remember that, you know, the changing of captain between tests, between games, is not uncommon.

I mean, you know, Ardy, captain of the All Blacks, he started as captain in three tests last year, finished as captain in a couple more as well.

I think it was 2021, the All Blacks used six captains across all those tests.

You know, people getting injured, they've got these midweek games.