Ian Foster says the All Blacks haven’t mentioned it and, according to Wayne Pivac, Wales haven’t had to, because the players already know it better than they want to. “It’s one of those records that’s in the media a fair bit,” Pivac says. And here it is again.
It has been 69 years since Wales last beat New Zealand, 32 games across seven decades, from a 6-0 slug-out at Arms Park in the winter of 1963 to a 38-point canter at the Principality Stadium last autumn, along the way there have been heartbreaks, one-point losses in 1978 and 2004, and humiliations, 50-point thrashings in 1988 and 2003, and everything but a Welsh victory.
