John Afoa

You know what I mean?

I think about the other guys like, you know, Anton making the cut.

You know, you know what you get from him.

He's an eight out of 10.

He's a work great.

He's a tackler and a genuine line option.

When we've had, I wouldn't say short guys, but when we have been running a like-eye, a severe, and then maybe to proceed on the field or only one other jumping option, when we come against South Africa later and they're all six and a half foot from five to eight, line-ups can be difficult.

And it might be an illusion.

They might go to a lot of four-man, five-mans, but it is the illusion that they do have height and they do need to be marked.

So, you know, if it's Anton playing or not, they've got Parker there as well.

So it just gives the illusion, okay, they've got a big back five, they've got height, they've got jumping options.

Teams will have to mark those guys.

Yeah, well, obviously, being at the games and watching him play, I think, like I said, he's pretty consistent.

Not the biggest guy around, and I think if he really wants to make his mark on Test footy, he'll have to sort of slam in a little bit more clay, because Super Rugby is such a fast game, a lot of ball movement.

He's very good in the open.

He scored...

a hat trick against one of the moana maybe at home but you know we know that when you go to south africa it's going to be tight quarters you know when you go up to the normal hemisphere to play it's going to be tighter quarters and you won't get that sort of open flare running in space as much so

And he'll learn to adapt his game for whatever opposition they're playing.

But a good selection and that shows other guys in New Zealand that there's still a chance.

You could come here, have a good year, you're a chance to play.