Roger Tuivasa-Sheck has shared some advice with the All Blacks, as the side prepare to spend the next three months abroad.
The All Blacks set out for Australia this week for their Rugby Championship campaign, and won't return until after their scheduled end of year tour in the Northern Hemisphere, which concludes in late November.
With the Auckland NPC player having spent the last two years based abroad with the Warriors in the NRL, Tuivasa-Sheck was able to share his experiences with All Blacks coach Ian Foster.
"I've had a good chat to Roger Tuivasa-Sheck in Auckland before we left about what it was like over there and some of the things that were working," Foster told Newstalk ZB's Elliott Smith.
"Because, particularly the Warriors, they've done an amazing job. I know they haven't got the results that they wanted but it's been an amazing circumstance what they've had to go through. There have been some lessons out of there.