It's still fundamentals. Boring, but key. Drop balls? Gonna lose. Lose line outs? Not gonna score points, etc. It's not flashy. What the speedsters do for us is nice, but their tackling and defense was missed (it sounds like). Good game, NZ.

oh yeah, no doubt those guys are their strike players. but they have a few other capable players. but point taken

Oof...proves that all you need to do is shut down Perry/Carlin and you can mostly put the Eagles lights out.

yeah should be close. But also the NZ team is missing about 5 big guns (playing super rugby).

This'll be a tough match for the Eagles. Third game in the same day without some of their big guns. Could get ugly.