Marc Hinton is not surprised by the omission of Stephen Donald and tells stuff.co.nz why
"When Stephen Donald fluffed his lines badly in his 20-minute cameo off the bench in Hong Kong last October, his All Blacks career was for all intents and purposes at an end.
"That's why it's hard to work out why there was so much surprise around the confirmation this week that Donald is not part of Graham Henry's plans for 2011. If you didn't see that coming -- Henry's Donald duck, as it were -- then you haven't been following the All Blacks coach's career closely enough.
"Donald was effectively on his "last chance" when he was included on the 2010 tour north. He'd played erratically for the All Blacks in 2009 when they lost three tests in a row against South Africa and the Waikato stalwart was the fill-in pivot while Dan Carter got over his Achilles problem. "
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