Would your team draft you?

Every team has three groups: champions, contenders and passengers. You can probably name them already.

In a team of ten, two carry the load. Five do their job. Three rely on the others. That gap never shows up on a P&L, which is why it rarely gets fixed.

Pro sport doesn't leave it to chance. Every season the coaches read the squad, lift the contenders, move the passengers on and bring new talent in. Then they get better next year.

Back the two. Make the five carry. Sort the three.

• How to read your own squad honestly.
• Why the middle five are the biggest lift, and the easiest.
• The question that stays with the room: which group would your team say you are?

Neil Tunnah.

Neil spent 15 years coaching professional rugby across Australia, Europe and the USA, at Knox Grammar, the Greater Sydney Rams, Jersey Reds and RFC Los Angeles. Seven players who came through his programmes went on to Test rugby for Australia, England, Wales and Canada.

He is the founder and CEO of The Performance Chain, which gives executive teams the weekly performance system professional sport runs on. Based in Adelaide. Works across Australia, the UK and North America.