By Lestyn (22/06/03)
June 22 2003

New Zealand completely annihilated a hopeless Welsh side. The All Blacks made us look like School boy's over eighty minutes of complete domination.

This was truly embarrassing, just too painful to watch for most of the eighty minutes. An shockingly poor performance by a team made up mostly of what are supposed to be our best players. It would be fair to say we haven't had the best club structure this season, but that was no excuse, the players lacked more than that, they lacked pride and passion. When you consider how they went on strike over pay, why bother?

Worryingly, there's no real solution at the moment either. We can't sack the coach again, that hasn't been the answer in the past, besides the WRU can't afford to. Hansen's on £250,000, surely he should do the right thing and take a pay cut, so that a motivator like Steve Black can be brought in and defence coach Clive Griffiths can be taken to the world cup.

As for the match report- I don't want to have to re-live that again and I don't think You'll want to either.

The scorers:

For New Zealand:
Tries: Howlett, Spencer, Carter, Meeuws, Mealamu, Umaga, Rokocoko 2
Cons: Carter 6
Pen: Carter

For Wales:
Pen: S Jones

I need a Drink, a long cold one preferably.