Mark Watson

You know, Bowden Barrett's been disappointing this year.

Steven Perafeta, well, we can't expect too much from him because he just hasn't played for so long.

I'm sure long-term he will come right.

In saying that, if there is one team who can just...

I guess sometimes a bit like the Pacific Island teams who on their day, if they put it together, can beat anybody.

But if you look at form, if you play the percentages, I just can't see the Blues winning this.

And it's just incredibly disappointing.

They're the team.

They're the team, as you talk about, they're the ones that get all the social media stuff and get all, you know, we might get beaten by 40, but they'll show the highlights of the one player doing the magic behind the back pass and all this other nonsense.

But I don't, mate.

And that's half the problem with this competition.

I don't.

I mean, the only games of real interest are the derbies, aren't they?

The only games coming up are the Crusaders versus the Chiefs, the Crusaders versus the Hurricanes, the Hurricanes versus the Chiefs, the rest of it.

I mean, who cares?

It doesn't matter who goes through.

It's the best of the Australian team.

They come here, they're going to play in New Zealand, they're going to get beaten, they're going to go home.

Yes, we saw the Brumbies, obviously, in the first rounds beat the Crusaders at home.

But we always said this with the Australian teams.