11. SIMON PORTER/ WARREN ALCOCK

Another cunning piece of bracketing.

Truth be told, Porter would probably rather spend his time watching cricket than rugby but that’s by-the-by. Porter is CEO of Halo, the biggest and most influential of the talent management agencies, a lawyer by training and a man who has facilitated contracts for the biggest crop of rugby talent in the country in all of the sport’s professional markets.

Alcock is also a lawyer by trade and has a reputation for being the best contract negotiator in the business.

McCaw, Carter, Beauden and Jordie Barrett, Ian Foster and Steve Hansen, Aaron Smith, Sam Cane and Ardie Savea and many, many more - it’s an outstanding collection of the biggest names in the sport and it all sits in

Halo’s portfolios.