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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&amp;#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1189057" data-attributes="member: 65365">I think razors group is looking to the future already more than the previous group. There will be a balance to this though and they will be most conservative for the first few tests.We haven&#039;t really seen much in the way of development players from fosters group(s).&nbsp; I&nbsp; remember wrongly predicting a few times that they would pick someone for development eg numia several years ago. This group has picked tosi and sititi at least.In terms of Patrick, and only taking three locks, instead of developing players, well patty is playing very well, we have a few injuries (lord, Delaney, PPP) plus a few promising players that didn&#039;t get the opportunites this year (ah kuoi, suafoa), then two players who are clearly future all blacks but are either ineligible (holland) or way too fresh (hannah). So I can see the logic.Also personally I&#039;m not too fussed about the World Cup, so I&#039;m not willing to sacrifice much for it. But I think you should always be developing players even to meet an objective of highest possible win rate over a four year period</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1189057, member: 65365"] I think razors group is looking to the future already more than the previous group. There will be a balance to this though and they will be most conservative for the first few tests. We haven't really seen much in the way of development players from fosters group(s). I remember wrongly predicting a few times that they would pick someone for development eg numia several years ago. This group has picked tosi and sititi at least. In terms of Patrick, and only taking three locks, instead of developing players, well patty is playing very well, we have a few injuries (lord, Delaney, PPP) plus a few promising players that didn't get the opportunites this year (ah kuoi, suafoa), then two players who are clearly future all blacks but are either ineligible (holland) or way too fresh (hannah). So I can see the logic. Also personally I'm not too fussed about the World Cup, so I'm not willing to sacrifice much for it. But I think you should always be developing players even to meet an objective of highest possible win rate over a four year period [/QUOTE]

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