PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

BLAIR Murray began the week ‘in a state of shock’ at having gone from nowhere on one side of the world to the starting grid for the autumn Tests on the other.
Once he gets to grips with the dizzying rise in status, the 22-year-old New Zealander could do worse than consider the fates of those of a similar shape summoned by Wales in optimistic search for another Shane Williams. Theirs has proved almost as elusive as the old maestro in his mercurial pomp.
The wider rugby public beyond Murray’s high school in New Plymouth ha...