Apparently France coach Marc Lievremont has lost the plot because after four years of experimentation he still doesn't know his best team. Mad man that he is - he's selected Morgan Parra to play at first five. Imagine that...a coach reaching a World Cup and mucking about with his selections.
How very French. How very rude and disrespectful to the IRB. Oh what bollocks. Look at the team the French are likely to play. On the wing for the All Blacks will be a centre. Having spent four years of experimentation and claiming only four weeks ago they had nine players challenging for positions in the back three - the All Blacks have ended up having to use Richard Kahui on the wing. They may opt to use regular fullback Isaia Toeava on the other flank.
The All Blacks still don't know their best halfback either and tomorrow it is possible regular blindside Adam Thomson will be selected at No 8.
If Lievremont is mad on the basis he's uncertain and prone to radical thinking, he's sane in comparison to the All Black coaches of this and the last three campaigns.
The All Blacks had no idea of their best team in 2007 and incredibly ended up playing a fullback at centre for the third consecutive tournament. In 2003 then coach John Mitchell lost faith in Ma'a Nonu after all of six minutes and ended up playing Leon MacDonald - a regular fullback - at centre.