FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Italy v New Zealand - Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy - November 24, 2018 New Zealand's Beauden Barrett celebrates after the match. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
TOKYO (Reuters) - For a playmaker who claimed back-to-back World Player of the Year awards as flyhalf in 2016-17, Beauden Barrett might have had some cause to query the decision to move him out of the All Blacks' engine room in a World Cup year.
Instead, Barrett just got on with the job at fullback while team mate Richie Mo'unga wore the number 10 shirt during the Rugby Championship.
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