Michael Field

Give him the summer to come back in serious condition, you know, look him away and see if you can get a proper season out of him, you know.

But the poor guy has had an awful injury run.

I'd love to see more of him.

I really liked it.

I love the size.

We just don't have guys that big that often, you know.

So that's going to be the key point of tension, guys, isn't it?

So I'm obviously leaning way more towards the Keane view, but you're obviously going...

you think that there's value in the kind of short term and that little carrot at the end of the Eden Park I'd be 100% more thinking like try and get guys as many guys through the season unscathed playing as much rugby as possible before the World Cup

Do you know what I mean?

That's my thinking on why you might rest a few guys.

I just feel like, you know, you need to be strategic about this.

And you might also uncover a few guys who get, you know, major confidence from playing, you know, Southern, you know, playing a couple of test matches down the Southern Hemisphere who now come back into their province and are a real value add.

You know, that new confidence, a bit of swagger about them coming back into, you know, a few Munster guys, a few Connacht guys, a few Ulster guys, getting a look at the Irish team.

I would say some of the other guys who've been the incumbents getting a bit of a break and coming back in fresh.

You've got that little bit of competitive tension now and guys believing that they have a genuine shot or they should be, you know, being really, really considered by Farrell as serious opposition and competition for the guys that are kind of in situ, you know, in a team that's very, very, you know, it's pushing on an age, but it's also very, it's a fairly stable team.

There's not that many guys that it kind of will be, you know, at this moment in time that I see, you know,

you know, on the cusp of getting into the team that we haven't really thought about.

So it feels like an opportunity for that.

It doesn't mean you sacrifice it.