John Day

You can play yourself into a test jersey if you play well in those games.

Would it be fair to say, I think that when we've talked about this over the last couple of weeks, guys, would it be fair to say that we've got a list of seven or eight names, but there's not three at the moment that are saying I'm the six, I'm the eight, Artie, of course, is the seven.

No one's actually saying I'm so much better than everyone else in those positions.

Do you agree?

Got the same, yeah, same team, yeah.

I still think the technique of going up and catching it in two hands is still the same across all of those places.

We spoke to him at the start of the year, and he said to us then, and they didn't do it, if you go back and have a look.

that he thought there'd be a lot more box kicking and a lot more high kicking in this competition.

We haven't seen it yet, but he's a guy that the All Blacks could easily draft in.

And I'm not so sure, Mark, that Dave Rennie isn't on that already, whether or not it's a permanent addition to the team or whether or not there is somebody there that is going to be there with them.

Staying with Super Rugby, I was going to say, is that Chiefs-Canes game enough to convince you from here, with the local derbies to come and the playoffs, that it is...

Can I say adequate test preparation?

It's as good as we get, but I'm looking at that game on the weekend compared to the Northern Hemisphere games and people might argue and say, oh yeah, the Northern Hemisphere games are like this every week.

Look, if our guys get half a dozen of those games before the All Blacks start playing, that's pretty damn good preparation, isn't it?

It's as good as you can get.

Well, I don't see how it gets any better for us.

I really don't.

Adi Salvia, Mark, where does he go now or does he stay out of the country and do another sabbatical?

Can you see him in Super Rugby next year?

I think for him to play in the World Cup, he has to play here in New Zealand.