Apart from fly-half Dan Carter's calf strain, there are no injury concerns for New Zealand ahead of Saturday's Test against South Africa in Dunedin.
That was the word from assistant coach Ian Foster who said the team felt the effects of the physical onslaught from the last week's Test against Argentina.
"There was certainly a lot of ice in the shed afterwards, but I think in the next couple of days we should have a full roster," he told Fairfax Media.
Foster said the team had analysed the video of their 21-5 victory over los Pumas and although some of the viewing was not too pleasant it was a good experience.
"The pleasing thing was the way the players were figuring things out as we went along," he said.
"The first 40 was terrible and the conditions made it very hard to play the way we wanted to play.
"It probably forced us in to making a few decisions we probably shouldn't have made and that didn't help us stretch the Argentinians the way we wanted to... We are playing at an intensity and speed level that we're pretty excited about, that we're getting right.
"We haven't quite got the finishing on it just yet, but particularly last week I thought the last 30 minutes of the game showed we were reasonably close to getting some things right."
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7ton says...
ruckingkiwi
You're right and I have to wonder if he actually does watch the game as well
Posted 20:32 14th September 2012
tuffnut says...
hahaha @Trinats your wind-ups often make me laugh, especially reading the responses from those who swallow your 'baiting' hook-line-and-stinker. In fact you're quite the 'master' at it...
Nonetheless I completely agree with you. It is most unlikely that the ABs would've won their last two games if it wasn't for those yellow cards from the referees... oh and/or if their opposition hadn't committed those infringements in the first place... and/or if the ABs hadn't being playing such expansive rugby that caused their opposition to commit those infringements to try and slow play down...
So I'd have to agree that you're completely right on that point.
Posted 14:51 12th September 2012
kiwilad says...
Trinats, If I follow your intricate line of thinking, does that mean the Argies will defeat the Wobblies 5-0??
Posted 04:42 12th September 2012
kiwilad says...
Trinats, Desperate thinking, even from an Aussie...
It must really hurt loosing to the ABs as consistantly as you do, even though you poached one of our best coaches, players from all over the globe, and still you can not remember what a Bledisloe sucess feels like.
And according to a vast number of your other posts, Quade is a far better 10 than Dan anyway, so wouldnt we be better without him??
Actually, If DC is # 1 in the world, who is 2, 3 and 4? Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett are fast approaching those numbers!!!
Posted 04:15 12th September 2012
ruckingkiwi says...
7ton, has it entered your mind he's never played rugby so probably wouldn't realise that?
Posted 00:52 12th September 2012
7ton says...
trinats2
Doh?
Ever enter your tiny mind that they kept gave away penalties to prevent the ABs from scoring tries. Eventually they will get carded
Posted 09:48 11th September 2012
Tweedledee49 says...
@trinats, they still would have gotten over the line if Genia and Cabello didnt slap down the ball and stop the try, right? So no, they did not need the ref mr trinats sir
Posted 07:47 11th September 2012
freddo says...
Hey PR admin, Is there any way that we can block certain other individual commenters ? Its like a broken record, akin to spam.
Posted 01:51 11th September 2012
hellovanite says...
Trinats2... 'Needed the ref to dish out penalties and yellow cards to get you over the line" !!! Massive yawn!
Posted 01:14 11th September 2012
Trinats2 says...
Trader2:
With reference to another post "Apart from fly-half Dan Carter's calf strain, there are no injury concerns for New Zealand" and look how porly they played last week without him. Needed the ref to dish out penalties and yellow cards to get you over the line !!! Aus (Giena) were 3-3 until he was sinbinned and Arggies 5-6 until they had a sinbin !!!
Posted 21:49 10th September 2012