The next Whitelock: Try for Luke
New Zealand delivered a warning to their Junior World Championship rivals by demolishing Wales 92-0 at Stadio Mario Battaglini on Tuesday.
Fourteen tries were scored in all by the nation wearing black in Rovigo as they only just came up shy of the century, winning well in the sunshine.
It took a mere 56 seconds for flanker Sam Cane to open the scoring and the tries came thick and fast after that with seven touchdowns in the first half alone, leaving Welsh manager and former international Mark Taylor to admit at half-time that his side were "a little bit shell-shocked".
There were also wins for England and Australia in the opening matches on day two. England ran out 39-18 winners over Scotland, Christian Wade grabbing the headlines with a hat-trick in the win over the Auld Enemy at the Stadio Comunale di Monigo in Treviso.
Australia, meanwhile, topped half a century for the second match in a row, this time running out 50-25 winners over Fiji in Pool B. Eddie Bredenhann, captain Michael Hooper, Jarrad Butler, Ted Postal, Damon Anderson, Siliva Siliva, Jacob Woodhouse and Blake Enever all scored in Padova.
Francois Venter scored a brace of tries for the second match in a row as South Africa beat Ireland 35-19 in Treviso to set up a Pool C decider with England on Saturday. Wing Wandile Mjekevu and second row Eben Etzebeth also got in on the try-scoring act for the Baby Boks.
Hosts Italy suffered a second defeat in as many games on their return to the Junior World Championship stage, this time losing 27-3 to Argentina in their Pool A match. In Pool B's other game, France beat Tonga 27-14 with four tries keeping them a point behind Australia.
With thanks to the IRB
Comments
hellovanite says...
Nicholas41...It's all very well intentionally provoking by using yawningly asinine wit. Baiting people is is just below sarcasm in the witty stakes, and it's not too clever to incite then claim the moral high ground. If you are joking, it's boring and not that funny
Posted 08:23 16th June 2012
Nicholas41 says...
PP,
nickharvey_pebisc@yahoo.com.au
Posted 00:10 23rd June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
I don't know whether to take you seriously, PP. Please expand on your first post that is 'all yours', why you might ask if I am a moron (literacy skills give much away on that point) and why you are surprised that people have a dig at your team? Who doesn't? Or mine for that matter?
Lastly, as I'm a bit bored, I still don't get this shots thing. You can call me what you like PP; if I am not one, it won't offend me!
Posted 21:29 22nd June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
I didn't call you 12. I asked if you were 12. On account of your level of humour being, well unfunny. 'Your team is rubbish' is not razor wit, whereas my implication that the Baby blacks had peaked too early was, I thought, quite good humour, taking into account the often talked about 'peaking between WCs'. As for dishing out, what did you dish? All I saw was a repetition of my posts.
Posted 19:50 21st June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
Listen, lad. See this bit 'Winning Junior World Cups is all well and good.....'? The dots at the end of the sentence are to imply that it wasn't meant seriously, to leave the thought in the air that might attract a few idiots, but not serious sorts.
Are you trying the 'repeat everything until I get annoyed' approach?
No doubt your next offering will provide the answer.
Posted 18:14 20th June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
I got that 7ton. I called it being over-obsessive.
As for powerplay - I have never been good at understanding high brow cerebral wit. 'Yeah Nicholas41, its abit like your team and how useless they are!' I can't see anything funny apart from the grammar. Unless it's some sort of schoolboy joke...
Posted 17:13 19th June 2011
7ton says...
Nicholas 41
'It's a bit like England and the football (soccer) world cup'
My meaning was If England don't win more national mourning along with all the media hype and so on
Posted 23:22 18th June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
'It's a bit like England and the football (soccer) world cup'.
Ah, you mean a worrying obsession towards sport? I see.
Powerplay - 'Yeah Nicholas41, its abit like your team and how useless they are!'
Are you 12?
Posted 11:33 18th June 2011
7ton says...
Nicholas 41
It's a bit like England and the football (soccer) world cup
Posted 08:24 17th June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
'O.K you young Kiwis if you listen to Nicholas41 you better stop growing so big and slow down, play some boring rugby and save yourselves for the senior world cup. lol!
Seriously I would guess that many of them get their good running, passing and handling skills from playing plenty of competitive rugby as very young kids in the parks and schools.
In many schools (not all) in Wales and the UK proper competitive sport does not exist and IMO there lies the problem'.
Agreed.
Posted 20:06 16th June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
Well that had the desired effect! Just a little joke and there'll be many more for the next few world cups I'm sure. All of which will be taken with masses of thin skin and truckloads of salt.
So what is the difference between NZ and England? If England don't win the WC (the senior version), no matter, life goes on. If NZ don't, more national mourning? Borne from what? Why? Why can't it be just a game?
Posted 19:56 16th June 2011
Tyler_Durden says...
Nicholas41 - your 50 percent right - winning junior world cups IS all well and good.
Posted 08:29 16th June 2011
7ton says...
O.K you young Kiwis if you listen to Nicholas41 you better stop growing so big and slow down, play some boring rugby and save yourselves for the senior world cup. lol!
Seriously I would guess that many of them get their good running, passing and handling skills from playing plenty of competitive rugby as very young kids in the parks and schools.
In many schools (not all) in Wales and the UK proper competitive sport does not exist and IMO there lies the problem
Posted 08:24 16th June 2011
ABlack says...
Ummm cant see what the brilliance of Under 20 NZ team has to do with the All Blacks "peaking to soon" as implied....? Assuming you mean the ABs in world cups .??? One is kids rugby the other the highest level of rugby on the planet for 1 month every 48 months....
Also the only World cups the ABs should have won due to their peaking to early rationale ,is 1995 & 2007 -every other WC they werent the best team on the planet in the 6 months before the WC.
Posted 05:10 16th June 2011
hayj05 says...
Please Nicolas, there is nothing wrong with NZ rugby in terms of performance. The last decade has probably been their most dominate period in history & this is the professional era where there are no secret innovations & everything is analysed. The WC is one tourny every four year, lose one game that may be influenced by a refs decision or food posioning & you have to wait another four years. Not saying they haven't lost to better sides as well but as mentioned above they've had some bad luck thrown in.
Posted 00:47 16th June 2011
sandal says...
@Nicholas41
""It might well sum up what is wrong with Welsh rugby but perhaps also what is wrong with New Zealand rugby too. To me it looks like they peak too soon.""
What do you suggest Nicholas? They should try to be less good? Pick a weaker team? Take it easy for a few years and try harder only when they get older?
There is not sense in what you say.
Posted 00:30 16th June 2011
Nicholas41 says...
It might well sum up what is wrong with Welsh rugby but perhaps also what is wrong with New Zealand rugby too. To me it looks like they peak too soon. Winning Junior World Cups is all well and good.....
Posted 19:21 15th June 2011
makemehappy says...
Nothing to do with psychology this one Richardsonja!!!! Clearly talent, speed, power, and size were the keys. What was embarassing was that this was much worse than other years - much, much worse. Look at the size of the players, and their fitness levels, even early on. Both these were not acceptable for this level of rugby. What on earth are the regions allowing this to happen? Looking across at Ireland, you will clearly see what I mean in relation to fitness and size, just incase you think these abilities are confined to the southern teams. It was good to see Matthew Morgan come on and create opportunities, that a good team would have used to score a couple of tries.
Posted 19:10 15th June 2011
BHathaway says...
some pretty good players in the NZ team, some of whom already have a few super rugby games under their belts. Wales did look very poor though.
Posted 17:30 15th June 2011
richardsonja says...
Just sums up whats wrong with Welsh Rugby. Beaten psychologically from the start. Management keeping the best players on the bench. Players kicking away possession (opening few minutes Wales stole an all black line out then promptly kicked it back to them) playing like a bunch of robots going through phase after phase until the ball is taken off them or a mistake is made. Excruciatingly slow ball both in play and getting it out of the ruck.
I still support you Wales but something over the past 5 or 6 years has gone seriously wrong.
Posted 09:42 15th June 2011