In today's article, The Dropkicks' friend casual acquaintance guy we met once hated enemy Chris Rattue waxes on about rumours Sonny Bill Williams may head to Counties Manukau to play in the Air New Zealand Cup.

Chris has taken the ball here, turned around and ran away from the opposition team - the Logic First XV of Common Sense to score in his own tryline. He wouldn't be out of place spouting off his article amongst these people.

You've got a team which struggles to get a crowd, struggles to make money, and struggles to create good players - and the players it does get, like Lelia Masaga and Tim Nanai-Williams - it struggles to keep. What does it have working in its favour? Possibly how close it is to Mt Smart Stadium, home of the Warriors.

You get Sonny Bill to Counties, you have the first game on a Friday night when the Warriors aren't playing, you'll sell out Growers Stadium, or Mt Smart. Maybe even Eden Park.

On top of that, how on earth is it a bad idea to get a standout league player, who has been playing at a high level in France [and let's not mention the Sonny Bill v Wallabies testimonial last year where he didn't make any mistakes that I remember] to your bottom-dwelling team?

People continually spout the line 'one player does not make a team'. To which I say: look at the differences between a Carter or McCaw-less All Blacks or Crusaders, or Manawatu without Aaron Cruden, or Counties with Lomu and Vidiri. While one player can't turn around a team, they can bring up the skill level of those around them - not to mention the confidence.

SBW will always be judged by how he left Australia, but until that point he'd honoured all his contracts, hadn't he? And his Toulon one? So why would Counties be worried he'd nick off? Nah, I reckon The Rat is just jealous, 'cause he knows if he pulled a dick-stunt like SBW did the country would be glad he'd gone, not staking out airports in Paris for sightings of him.