I'm sorting of guessing that Robbie's tactics are going to revolve around high tempo and moving the ball around to both sides of the ruck. He has picked a bench that supports a fast game, but won't be great at set piece (Hooper, Dennis, Alexander), while the starting pack is better at set piece and has more weight to it, but can't last out 60 minutes (TPN, Sharpe, Palu).
So we have an up tempo game plan. We have the half back to play that, with his ability to distribute the ball to multiple forward runners, and give long passes to the 10, but we don't have the 10 to be able to effectively utilise the space made available, nor to further move the ball around. I feel the game plan is going to be highly reliant on getting Cooper and Beale back into the fold. Then I think it could work very well - particularly in dry conditions.
The questions are:
1) Is there a plan b in the wet?
2) Is this plan likely to backfire vs NZ?