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The All Blacks were named yesterday, and it is the weakest team in years, in my opinion. This was a really good chance to blood new players for another crack at full world domination.
Latimer and Ross are obvious selections. Wyatt Crockett, the cowboy name from Canterbury, is also a good selection and could be the next Hayman. He’s tall, tough, has great ball skills.
But this is going to be a new paradigm in how the game is played.
From the NZHerald.co.nz on Sunday 1st June.
“That evolution would take a few years but Ross had all the basics of size and skill to make a success of his selection. Latimer was a looseforward who had been consistent throughout the Super 14 and without the injured McCaw and Waldrom, deserved his elevation. He would compete with Adam Thomson for the openside vacancy. They would operate under the revised laws at the breakdown where, previously, it had seemed foolish that someone with their hands on the ball had to be told to let it go by the referee when a ruck formed. ‘That will quicken up the game, I think it will add to the skill in the game and will change how the game is coached. I think everybody will be a flanker,’ Henry predicted.
What we will see now is another changing of shapes of the tight five, as scrums and ;ineouts take a back seat to turnovers.
All players will be learning from the good books of Richie McCaw and Phil Waugh on how to steal the ruck ball legitimately.
The game will speed up and I predict less time in set pieces.
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