Extract from article By Wynne Gray
"It does not leave the team in the lurch. Charles Piutau has shown enough glimpses of his all-round skill and those aerial and covering components the staff deem so important, to move straight into the right wing duties.
He has been on the field six times from the bench but this will be his first All Black start and a chance to see those talents which were so much a part of the Blues arsenal this season.
They certainly appealed to the national selectors who roped him into the All Black squad as an understudy to Israel Dagg and cover for centre and wing.
Piutau turns 22 later this month and while he has a few rough edges about his play and the decisions he makes, the way he breaks tackles, creates momentum in very little space and works hard, seems to fit the All Black template very well.
The tough part will be suppressing some of that impetuous streak which runs through his play. Piutau will be told to hold his width on the right flank, work the back three defences with Dagg and Julian Savea and wait for the attacking play to work towards him.
If he settles into that rhythm and the All Black forwards reproduce the venom they showed against the Springboks, then Piutau may end up with the sort of right wing treasure Ben Smith has discovered this season.
Fullbacks and wing we are told, should be interchangeable in the modern game. This is Piutau's chance to add another chapter to that theory."
