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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 849254" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>Agreed it is overkill in terms of centres, wings and full backs. I think this is reaction to 2013, when so many of them went down and cover had to be called in. It got a bit silly when Shane Williams came in for 1 game. But also that the quality of the NZ Super rugby franchises is much, much better than that faced in Australia. Western Force were a complete joke, flying in nobodies to play for them v the Lions. Knowing Sod's law this time round more forwards will go down and need cover brought in. </p><p></p><p>If every player is supposed to be given a chance to play before the first test then they aren't going to have much game time to impress. Just hope it's not a repeat of 2005 in that sense when the squad got split between Dirt trackers and test team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 849254, member: 70552"] Agreed it is overkill in terms of centres, wings and full backs. I think this is reaction to 2013, when so many of them went down and cover had to be called in. It got a bit silly when Shane Williams came in for 1 game. But also that the quality of the NZ Super rugby franchises is much, much better than that faced in Australia. Western Force were a complete joke, flying in nobodies to play for them v the Lions. Knowing Sod's law this time round more forwards will go down and need cover brought in. If every player is supposed to be given a chance to play before the first test then they aren't going to have much game time to impress. Just hope it's not a repeat of 2005 in that sense when the squad got split between Dirt trackers and test team. [/QUOTE]
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