PETER JACKSON COMMENT

The gulf in tries between the old rivals has widened with every mis-match since that blessed last Saturday before Christmas 1953. The updated total reads this morning like a miserably one-sided game of basketball: Wales 27, New Zealand 130.
They say that those who ignore history go on repeating it, and in losing the first 29 matches to the All Blacks since Coronation Year, Wales have shipped tries at an average of exactly five a game. The 30th straight defeat, built on five more tries, falls neatly into the historical perspective.
There are times, though, when the ba...