All Blacks selectors looking at provincial players to bolster their end-of-year tour ranks HAMISH BIDWELLMICHAEL BRADLEY/GETTY IMAGES Solomon Alaimalo's ability to play fullback and wing won't hurt his All Blacks prospects. Not content with already having more quality players than they can put in a 23 each week, the All Blacks are set to cast their net even wider. Selector Ian Foster said on Tuesday that a group of Mitre 10 Cup players are being closely monitored, with an eye to inclusion on the All Blacks' upcoming end-of-year tour. We've got a five-game end-of-year tour [and we've yet to decide] how we go about that. The All Blacks play Australia, Japan, England, Ireland and Italy on their end-of-year tour and you could argue there's the potential for experimentation in three of those games.

Source: Stuff September 04, 2018 04:41 UTC