In the Sydney Morning Herald, Mike Robinson talks with Stephen Dods who coached Dan Carter and Colin Slade at schoolboy level and believes that Slade could be even better than his predecessor.
"Once Colin is settled into a team and a pattern, he's a very intelligent player, almost a perfectionist," he said. "He likes things to be just the way they should be and until they are sorted he can be hesitant. But once he feels part of the system, he never has a bad game. His only bad performances ever are at the start of his tenure.
"When he first came into the first XI cricket team here I moved him from the middle order to opening bat. He struggled for a while, but then he got so good he nearly gave away rugby for cricket. He is good enough to have played cricket for New Zealand at first or second wicket down.
"Colin could be better than Dan and then Dan might not get back in. When Grant Fox's time was coming to an end, people said what now? Then Andrew Mehrtens came along. When he went wonky Dan showed up. People come along."
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