All Blacks’ Kieran Read braced for France to put on real show of force

• ‘We are preparing for the top French team to turn up this weekend’• ‘It’s going to be one hell of a battle,’ says New Zealand No8Having been kept awake by partying Wales supporters during their stay in Cardiff during the pool stage, New Zealand are taking in the sea air of Swansea, a city that does not contain reminders of what happened when they played France in the 2007 World Cup quarter-final at the Millennium Stadium.The two sides meet there again on Saturday evening, once more for a place in the last four, and every All Black paraded before the media this week is asked about that night …

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