The "wee" All Black backline in 2019

ex sport24 - "New Zealand suddenly boast one of the smallest backlines in world rugby". 

Aaron Smith - tiny.

Richie Mo'unga - (89kg) short

Lampaue - 5 foot 8 tall. Shortest centre in world rugby

Ben Smith - small for a modern-day wing. Appears to be having some geriatric thining. 

Beauden Barrett - skinny. He was run over nicely by an Australian last weekend.

Many of these players will be selected, so the Boks could bully them. It would be good to see Frans Steyn run over Barrett to start of the match. Not just bounce him out of the way.

I agree with this, to an extent. Barrett is a lightweight, so too was Cruden. Laumape is around 100kg. Mo'unga is about average I'd say, unless someone can inform me differently. Their 9s are small, but Faf is smaller than all of them. I don't think they have as many players with mongrel as they used to. I'll look into this a little more sometime. My initial impress is not that they lack height or weight, they still usually beat us in the air and handle the likes of Damian et al rather comfortably. 

One has to wonder what some are on when they talk of the AB's being in decline. Given their size, half their skills as well as a 15 man team they pretty much better than most....if not all.