Kieran Read stands out in a land of giants for a reason other than his status as leader of the best team on the planet. His name springs to mind over the chorus of international coaches babbling on about the Test arena having escalated into a 23-man game. In that event, nobody has told the captain of New Zealand… and nobody will.
The obsession with substituting around five-eighths of every pack in every international does not apply to Read. The Global Positioning System (GPS) may have been behind Ross Moriarty’s absurdly early exit against England but no machine will ever tell ...