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Selection debate sharpens ahead of All Blacks test against Japan

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most of the critics are media wonks looking to fill up their quota of words. Pommy scribes particularly strident in an effort to distract from the English team's weak performance and coaching worries. Fans could care less. Who remembers the starting pivot against the Japanese in SA when they won 145-17? Here is what he said "We were basically the 'B' team and it was unheard of to rotate in those days. We were pretty determined we weren't going to let the All Black jersey down". No one got too worried about it then. Social media has made wannabe pundits too influential in their own minds.

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