READ TO MOVE ON – SEARCH FOR SUCCESSOR BEGINS

Kieran Read said in November last year that he would be most likely moving on after the World Cup. In March this year he confirmed that when he announced he would be joining Toyota Verblitz. Read said he thought about retiring but didn’t feel he was completely finished as a player and that a year in Japan would be perfect for him and his family.

It will not only bring to an end a spectacularly good test career, but it will also mean the All Blacks will be looking for a new captain in 2020.

And it is a relatively