Murray Mexted

Now he hasn't been playing open side flanker for the Chiefs this whole year.

And all of a sudden in the last couple of games,

he's playing in an open side.

And that's because he wanted to play other guys that could actually win the ball at eight and six particularly.

Or do you change that up?

I think when you play together with another player, it becomes instinctive and you just sort of, and I'll often use the example of I was lucky enough to play with Dave Loveridge for all those years.

And when you're under pressure,

You know, so I was under pressure to clear the ball or put the ball in a certain position.

He knew.

He instinctively knew.

and he would drop back just a little bit more to give me a little bit more room to move.

Those sorts of things, I knew what he could take and what he couldn't take.

You get to know what that player instinctively can and can't do, and you react instinctively.

Because this is all happening very quickly, you know, and you're under pressure at the same time.

So I think if you can play players that play well together,

And are currently playing well together, not two years ago, but are currently playing well together.

It's bloody hard to beat that instinctive factor as well.

So I think that Hurricanes back line was just dynamite.

It's on fire and they're doing it week after week.

And he picked the bloody lot of them and he had to.