"I'm relieved that we've got two guys left," Mustin said.
"You know that the All Black environment, the All Black way of living is not going to fall over just because six guys left".
He will then look to play the same mountain role as in 2015; as he notes, "when you get to a point in the mountains where there are only four, five or six guys left and you are one of them, you are going to get into the overall standings anyway".
"They're playing half-full places with just two guys left in the band.
And the two guys left standing by it at the end were real losers (See Lieberman 2000; Kerry 2004).
"Just because three or four guys leave, they will continue to produce good new players.
Two guys were kicked off and one guy left to sign a contract.
"The thing that is changing is that the time I had where we had a very strong chief designer — in my case Rory Byrne — you've now got probably one guy left in the paddock — Adrian — who is of that sort," said Brawn, referring first to his designer at the Benetton and Ferrari teams.
"If teams run blitz and you can get your running back started, there's going to be chances for big plays because they're going to have the safety down and there's going to be one guy left in the middle of the field," center Todd McClure said.
It's really frustrating when you got one guy left and all he does is standing in spawn, besides you need as much active players as possible to win.
