The Silver Fern

I love how Kane Hames put Marc Hinton in his place.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/rugby/watch-all-blacks-prop-kane-hames-has-press-pack-in-stitches-after-calling-journalist-said-he-cant-scrum

Positive signs

Via Database:

This is the first time the All Blacks have had no Test debutants in their First Test of the season for 35 years.
Last having none in 1989.
0- 1985, 1989, 2024 *
1- 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2023
2- 1987, 1994, 1996, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2022
3- 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2020
4- 1997, 2000, 2005, 2015, 2019, 2021
5-
6- 2010
7-
8-
9-
10-
11- 1986

https://thespinoff.co.nz/sports/08-12-2018/when-a-chief-dies-the-aaron-hopa-story/?fbclid=IwAR0G4ECktoxlHx_lDHom_b6fqiW8BH3bDZrjIf3b-ctiaDJFrz4FI8ktzNU