Sean and why to stake claim
“I think sometimes it’s not something you can quantify what Munster bring to a game.
“It’s a special pride, sometimes the performances they can produce, it’s done consistently over and over again during the years.
“Being able to dig deep and bring performances from places where individuals and collectively people often can’t do.
“That’s what Peter will bring to the team on Saturday.” WHETHER TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR PLAYERS TO PITCH FOR THE TESTS “I think we’re all aware that you get one or two chances, and some people were lucky and for whatever reason you may be involved in a combination that goes really well.
“Sometimes you’ve got to reward that. And that’s why we’ve gone with a lot of the combinations from last Saturday.
“Now we get to see if that’s going to be a lot of the combinations for the first Test. They’ve just got to gel and keep working together.
“For the players who aren’t involved the message is we’ve seen in the past how significantly the team can change from Test one to two to three.
“You never know when your chance is going to come.” ROSS MORIARTY “He’s been unlucky in that he hasn’t trained for about five days.
“We felt that with this game the players that had been training on a regular basis were the players that deserved to be selected.
“He’ll probably take part in Tuesday to get a run-out. IS IT A SHADOW TEST SQUAD? “For us, even though it’s a strong side, we’ve got to make sure we’re not fully showing our hand. We’ve got to keep some combinations back and keep the All Blacks guessing a little about what the final squad might be.”