Rugby Union

Its definitely expensive, maybe given how close that match was sending the A team around Europe which is a lot cheaper would be a good ploy? Good for those lower tier nations getting experience playing better teams and good for the A players to get proper touring experience together as well, even if its on busses & trains instead of planes ;)

Its a hell of a lot easier to do that than NZ bringing ours all the way up north anyway! I guess we only get away with that as it has the benefit of increasing the ABs touring player pool but Razor's getting away with murder on the squad sizes and given NZRs finances its hard to see how we can sustain the number of players & staff on tour that he wants. For the 2026 SA tour he's already talked about an All Blacks squad 60+ which is probably only viable because SA is likely not super expensive once you manage to get over there.