The Hard Calls: ‘I’ve coached Dev 10 years… he’s such a good player but he’s a quality person’

“It was one of those typical selection meetings where maybe 20-25 of the players are listed straight away and it’s those ones where you are trying to get balance where it’s very difficult to choose between two players, and two players offer slightly different things, and you’re trying then to narrow down and trying to get the best balance across the squad of the entire 31 because that’s part of what you need to do, because you’ve got to make sure you have cover that’s immediate — even though you can replace players there (in Japan) is obviously a…