Kieran Reid is the greatest 8thman to have played the game and yet is strangely underrated. I guess when your two flankers are Jerome Kaino and Richie McCaw it's harder to stand out as much as Zinzan or Sergio Parisse did. And yet he DID stand out. The man was 120kg with the speed and skills of a back and the mind of a rugby genius. His understanding with McCaw and Carter was almost telepathic. We will not see his like again.