Mark Watson

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?

What is happening at a schoolboy level?

Why is that allowed to happen?

So, you know, we've got to address the coaching issue at a much younger age.

We've got to get back to developing the technical aspects much younger.

And for some reason, we've moved away from it.

Maybe it's because we just have picked big kids at a schoolboy level in the past.

Don't worry.

I'm going to finish up.

The moment John signed up as a manager, he automatically came under the Players Association.

Part of that is resting and rotating.

After a week, he will be tired.

He'll be told he's tired.

He'll be told he needs to take a break because we've got a World Cup in 18 months' time.

Did they not teach you the difference between one banana and one bunch of bananas?

He's got no chance, absolutely no chance.

And I know he's probably done it just to wind up the Cantabrians, I'd say, because we all know it's going back there.