The Orange

The AB’s brains trust is quite adamant – it’s not the Grand Slam tour.

It just happens, that if they win all four games it will be a grand slam. As they say, if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck it must be … let’s duck that one!

So if it’s not a Grand Slam tour, then what is it?

Quite clearly, it’s another step towards the WC in 2007 and you have to give the selectors credit for being brave. And if they’re not being brave, then it certainly won’t be a grand tour.

The full team is listed here.

You would expect that some of the players will be demanding that the jerseys have the names of the players on them along with their number … that way, there’s a chance they’ll recognise Isaia Toneava and will be able to call our his name!

Marty Holah draws a tough one altho you can see the logic with taking Chris Masoe.

Leaving behind Marty Holah shows the selectors are genuining serious about checking out players with a view to 2007 rather than focussing on winning the Grand Slam.

Not that it is a grand slam.

Footnote:
My apology for both my readers for not keeping up to date – still feeling like a bus has departed from somewhere on top of me.