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Which is a weird thing to try to reverse engineer when the logical conclusion is not that reducing the number of changes = better performance. The logical conclusion (IMO) is that teams that are doing better tend to do so because they are not being forced to make a lot of forced changes (particularly to key players). If you have 4 of your best players out for half the year and all suddenly - and magically - become fit overnight in R12 you don't leave them in the VFL for the rest of the year to minimise changes.
I dunno if it was as straight up as I made it sound. It was more along the lines of successful teams don't change as much cos they don't make unforced changes the way an unsuccessful team should.
I don't think he was trying to reverse engineer anything at that point. Can see how he did in the following year.