Having labored beneath Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend with each Glasgow Warriors and Scotland, Blair retains a powerful relationship together with his former worldwide team-mate.
“We have been in contact this week,” Blair mentioned. “After I was over after the fourth Take a look at [against South Africa], I used to be over for a few weeks and caught up with them and make some extent to try this.
“We’re just a bit bit extra cagey round sure issues, how we imagine the sport’s growing now and what we will do, as a result of clearly we’re up in opposition to one another now and I believe we play one another earlier than the World Cup as properly.
“You want to pay attention to sure performs the opposition may do over form, however you have actually received to belief what you are attempting to do. I actually really feel like that with assault, you may make little tweaks in your element relying on what the defence provide, but when we get our recreation proper then we will impose ourselves.
“So there is a little bit of inside information however I do not suppose it carries an enormous quantity of weight.”
Blair says the squad and workers are nonetheless coming to phrases with the shock demise of the All Blacks head of safety, Logan Cadwallader.
Cadwallader handed away out of the blue on Sunday following the squad’s arrival in Edinburgh, with head coach Rennie saying “we’re all devastated”.
“It has been a troublesome couple of days,” mentioned Blair.
“Logan was a giant a part of the All Blacks for 10 years and really shut with gamers and administration and clearly an enormous, large shock and it is taken time to cope with.”