“But this team has a lot of talent”.
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The 11 All Blacks marking their first RWC appearance are Ben Smith, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Julian Savea, Aaron Smith, Brodie Retallick, Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett, Charlie Faumuina, Sam Cane, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett.
“It will give the town and region a chance to engage with some of the greatest players in the world, and to feel a real part in one of the largest sporting occasions in the world”. The All Blacks popularity has expanded beyond our own backyard and that has been confirmed following the recent release of a survey by google. “It is home to the best-supported and most successful club in the history of the professional game in this country and, as such, we believe is worthy of Rugby World Cup status”. If they haven’t already, it might be time to invest in some All-black tinted windows (poor pun alert).
Four 16-24 year olds, selected from local clubs and educational institutions, acted as Cap and Medal Bearers, to represent the legacy of Rugby World Cup 2015.
“I think they’ve handled their preparations well”.
“There was a bit of contact out there and it was good to get that out of the system”.
Today’s match will be anything but usual for Pacific Nations champions Fiji, a team with plenty of talented players but at the opposite end of the scale to England, whom they have never beaten, in terms of finance and infrastructure.
When New Zealand play Argentina in their World Cup opener at Wembley Stadium today a collision of two giant packs is expected. Coincidentally that is the margin of victory the bookies forecast on Sunday.
“They are using it to intimidate us. Their weaknesses are their steady formations, we have to take advantage of that from the start of the game”, he said about the weakest team in Zone C.
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Israel Folau will represent Australia as a member of the 2015 Wallabies Rugby World Cup squad. Although I want to emphasise that we learned in ’07 if you look too far ahead you get on a plane and go home so we’ll just worry about Argentina this week, Namibia next game and so forth.
