Test match? More a cash match, Ian!

PETER JACKSON

THE latest in the neverending series of mismatches between Wales and New Zealand ought to have left certain All Black coaches cringing at how they talked up the opposition.
And head honcho Ian Foster was distinctly supercilious on the subject of Wales having lost so many front-line players.
“It wouldn’t be a Test week up here without people knocking the game,’’ he said. “This is a game both countries wanted. It’s a Test match.’’
Foster would have been bang on the mark had he said: “We’re only here for the money.’’ Had the WRU not met New Zealand’s demand of a £2m guarantee, Ca...

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