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Avan Lee: More All Blacks will switch Super Rugby team

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More big name All Blacks will consider following Beauden Barrett's lead and switch Super Rugby teams.That's the claim from Hurricanes chief executive Avan Lee, after they kept Jordie Barrett in the capital for now after the Blues tried to lure him away.Lee said contrary to what he initially believed, no player was beyond an approach from rival Super Rugby teams."Typically in the last four years since I've been here that interest has been driven from offshore," he told Radio Sport."But that has changed in the last six weeks with other New Zealand clubs approaching some of our top players, and we've also been in the market."There is a different dynamic and something that will probably increase."I naively thought that there were players at each club who were perhaps untouchable, Aaron and Ben Smith, Sam Whitelock – I thought those sorts of guys wouldn't move."They were established All Blacks, with families, settled in their cities. The last six weeks have changed my mind a bit."We probably thought Beauden would