The All Blacks kicked off their Northern Hemisphere Tour with a Test against Wales. The All Blacks won a generally scrappy affair which only really only came alive in the last 20 minutes. The All Blacks won 19 / 12.
The All Blacks drew first blood after just more than 10 minutes, a Dan Carter Penalty, making it 3 / 0.
Wales drew level with a penalty of their own by Stephen Jones…
Again the All Blacks went ahead through the boot of Carter and again Stephen Jones equalised.
The First half ended tied, 6 / 6.
The First Half was characterised by aimless kicking, hard and uncompromising forward play and lots of guts, but it was boring rugby.
After Halftime, the All Blacks upped the ante, less aimless kicking and more direct running and it started showing on the score board, firstly through a Dan Carter penalty, then through a hard driving try by Andrew Hore, converted by Dan Carter.
Then another Dan Carter penalty followed and the score had ballooned to 19 / 6 for the All Blacks.
With Jimmy Cowan having replaced the pedantic Brendon Leonard, there was more fluidity in the backline.
Wales was not done yet and upped their own tempo as well, then came back with 2 Stephen Jones penalties and with a few minutes to play they were within 7 points.
They threw everything at the All Blacks in an attempt to level the scores but the All Black defense held, denying the Welsch the magic come-back.
Man of the match was awarded to Dan Carter.
Points:
Wales: 4 Penalties Stephen Jones
All Blacks: 4 Penalties & 1 Conversion Dan Carter, 1 Try Andrew Hore
Teams:
Wales: 15 James Hook, 14 Leigh Halfpenny, 13 Tom Shanklin, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 Shane Williams, 10 Stephen Jones, 9 Gareth Cooper, 8 Ryan Jones (captain), 7 Martyn Williams, 6 Andy Powell, 5 Luke Charteris, 4 Alun-Wyn Jones, 3 Paul James, 2 Matthew Rees, 1 Gethin Jenkins
Replacements: 16 Huw Bennett, 17 Duncan Jones, 18 Bradley Davies, 19 Dafydd Jones, 20 Martin Roberts, 21 Jonathan Davies, 21 Tom James
New Zealand: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Brendon Leonard, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (captain), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Jason Eaton, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Corey Flynn, 17 Owen Franks, 18 Tom Donnelly, 19 Adam Thomson, 20 Jimmy Cowan, 21 Stephen Donald, 22 Ben Smith.
Date: Saturday, November 7
Venue: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Kick-off: 19.30 SA Time (17.30 GMT, 06.30 NZ Time – Sunday, November 8 )
Expected weather conditions: Light rain showers. Maximum 10°C. The weather could be negate if the stadium roof is closed.
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Mark Lawrence (South Africa), Stuart Terheege (England)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England)
Some Photo’s of the match… and our fellow blogger who was there… wonder if you could guess who this was?
Go All Blacks… Go Wales…. my second and third favourite International Teams…. oh and I like the Argies too.
Both Wales and New Zealand are as serious about rugby as us.
Always support All Blacks when they are not playing Boks.
So Go All Blacks.
GO WALES….
WRS, mates and I are just leaving for the match….
See you tomorrow xxx
GBS will send you a message later..
3 – Carol
Enjoy the game. Take some pics.
All Blacks by 20.
ek hoop om n repeat van laas jaar se haka te sien befok gewees om te sien hoe wales die blacks beantwoord het.man ek laak daai klomp joneses
I like the Welsch National Anthem….. bone-chillingly good…
Dan Carter to play, for sure!
Game about to begin. Waiting for the haka.
What a magnificent stadium. Full to the rafterst there.
Greetings everyone am going to try do this by phone. To hot to sit on bed with laptop.
Flok, daai Walliese Volkslied laat die rillings by mens rug afgaan….. fokkennnnnnn mooi
Game underway!!
Oih they tried to intimidate with haka was scarey but the welsh drowned them out again. And its kickoff.
Daai serimonie was befok mooi enige ou wat diensplig gedoen het moet half emosineel wees
Feck did carter duf that catch
Shame squif kick
First Blood for the All Blacks
All Blacks 3 / 0
Wales will hold on well in the first half… but I recon the All Blacks will pull away in the second half
3 / 3
Scores are leve. 3 each.
See the roof is closed. They always moan to closed must have been a lot of rain there.
Meant they always moan to close the roof for us.
Jis jis
GBS
Let jy op hoe ordenlik, volgens die reels, blaas Craig Joubert teen oor daai Sonofadick van gisteraand?
19 GBS. My feelings too. ABs always do that.
No 18 gbs please tell puma i am going to kick his boude if we ever meet. Read on last thread i must post with on this thread and am straining eyes doing it on phone.
so am logging of, this is 2 much like hard work.
thanks doll have a good evening.
Try Brendon Leonard??
TMO
Looks like a try to me
No try
NZ 6 / 3
Ah puma see u there messge for you. Am still trying to log out from phone.. Eish am missing a good game
Carter’s tactical kicking not spot-on
28 Treehugger, Just get the laptop.
Users Online
Total 185 users including 0 member, 185 guests, 0 bot online
Most users ever online were 3735, on 31 August 2022 @ 6:23 pm
No Counter as from 31 October 2009: 41,832,922 Page Impressions
_