Mark Watson

And these guys are just monsters.

I mean, there's no way in hell Argentina should be beating us.

I don't care what anyone says.

It's a small sport in Argentina comparative to here.

They've got no professional club comp.

look at the skill set around the country and how we lose to them is beyond me.

But it's just the fact is they just turn possession over.

They just play it up through the middle.

They just pick and go.

They just pick and go.

And they just eventually grind you down.

They kick, they play for territory.

And then, yeah, and we seem to still just be constantly looking to produce the more athletic type body.

And until we maybe look at saying, hey, we want to play the Northern Hemisphere way.

We want to just go with, you know, big, massive, bulked up forwards with little skill.

um we're probably going to continue going down that same path i think though i still like the idea of developing skill from a young age and then building the player later on which has been the new zealand way um but yeah but the other thing is you talk to i talked to a number of first 15 coaches they actually reckon that the 1a comp it used to be a great 1a comp it's no longer that the technical skills at scrummaging level are really ordinary like a really small

good first 15 well coach forward pack can beat a much bigger one just simply by body position and technique and all the rest of it but then also you come back to this and i know that they used to be saying when all black rugby's healthy when auckland rugby's healthy all black rugby's healthy now i don't put as much weight on that but you cannot have auckland rugby finishing 12th in the npc north harbour for northland 10th

Well, it's a third of the population base in the country.

Counties Manukau finishing eighth.

And then you think, well, what's happening below those teams?