PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

FLYING to Baltimore two months ago, Beauden Barrett could have been forgiven for wondering whether Old Father Time was trying to tell him something. The Greatest Rugby Rivalry tour had passed the venerable New Zealander by at all three Test venues in South Africa before the ancient tribes shipped their titanic series across the Atlantic for the decider on neutral territory. It was almost as if the All Blacks had begun to declare their most decorated player surplus to requirements.
Questions had been raised over his indifferent form before hea...