- Cooper recovers well, makes a strong return and does NOT go to League, setting his sights on a RWC win to redress the 2011 debacle and provide a suitable "comeback from adversity" centerpiece to his best-selling autobiography "I Can Jump Puddles" which is released in 2016 to co-incide with the birth of his first child with new wife Candice Falzon.
- Pocock continues to be the dominant No7 in the world, hastening the retirement of McCaw and causing Schalk Burger to finally overstep the mark so badly out of sheer frustration that he receives a life ban for eye-gouging, attacking the head, attacking the referree, assaulting 8 fans and subsequently going on a coke and booze filled binge in Capetown with 3 hookers and Charlie Sheen.
- Dan Carter's snapped groin never recovers properly and he suffers a series of injury setbacks and bizarre side-effects ultimately culminating with him being confined to a wheelchair and using a DECtalk DTC01 voice synthesiser donated by Stephen Hawking to commentate NZ club matches on local radio.
- Sonny Bill Williams ditches Rugby and League altogether to focus on Boxing after realizing he can make more money with less effort that way and spend more time with his shirt off, prompting Anthony Mundine to immediately announce that he is undergoing a radical physical transformation to bring his ropey physique up to 91 kg's so that the World can see that no-one can get the heavy duty biff on like a couple of peace-loving born-again Muslim, ex-Mungoballers with attention deficit disorder.
- Radike Samo gets a haircut and discovers that he now has the additional pace required to make a permanent and deadly transition back to the Wing, freeing JOC (James O'Connor) up to play closer to the ruck, leading to a facial mauling from Schalk Burger that causes permanent and severe disfigurement and loses him the Swisse ads and every TV related product endorsement deal he's ever had but wins him the love of a plain but kind-hearted miner's daughter from Kalgoorlie.
