The whole "holding back for the WC" is balls because even if it is true, one dodgy reffing performance (e.g. NZ v Fra Joubert 2011 Final) in quarter vs a decent team and you are gone. One early red in a 1/4 and it is probably GG. It isn't worth sacrificing 4 years for an event where we make the semis on average and have been in 4 finals without always being good. Sacrificing the odd game here and there to try something different is not what Eddie was doing. He was sacrificing entire 6n, normally to do the same pig headed thing that had been shown to not work the year before. 2 fast threatening wingers, and open, blind and no 8, 2 locks, a full back, a 9 and a 10 that work, decide who you are playing off. It is not rocket science. Get the basics right and then worry about a ball playing 12 or centre combinations or not.