As expected, New Zealand All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has given his charges the week off after their stellar performance over the weekend, clinching The Rugby Championship against the Springboks from South Africa.
They are nursing quite a number of bumps and bruises, the result from the hard encounter with the Springboks.
The next All Blacks Test is the Bledisloe Cup encounter with the Wallabies in Dunedin on Saturday 19 October 2013.
The All Blacks squad will assemble again on Tuesday next week.
“We’ll get home and it’ll be about recovering again,” he said.
Even though the Test on 19 October is a Bledisloe Cup match, the All Blacks have already wrapped up the Bledisloe Cup contest for the year and are currently on a run of 9 Test wins in a row this year alone.