Wayne Smith, who secured a place in the pantheon of great coaches long before his astonishing triumph with the Black Ferns at last year’s Women’s World Cup, is so sensitive to things happening on the field, he hears the grass grow.
Alarmingly for those of us who still love this battered old game, it is now the case that Smith would rather WATCH the grass grow than subject himself to a full 80 minutes of Super Rugby.
One of the few top-level attacking strategists who might reasonably describe himself as a “visionary” if he possessed the required degree of chutzpah, which he doesn’t, Smith ran...