“Good job it wasn’t a strong New Zealand side,” noted one Welsh supporter to his mate on Westgate Street on Saturday evening.
Said in jest, obviously. There again, we had been told these 2022 All Blacks were a non-vintage crop — they had lost six of their previous 12 matches arriving in Cardiff and even the vibe from the other side of the world was that they were vulnerable.
But they destroyed Wayne Pivac’s team, running in eight tries and showing a clinical edge the hosts could only dream of.
