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By Liam Napier in Melbourne. All Blacks 39. Wallabies 37. Classic Bledisloe carnage in Melbourne. In a captivating contest, in front of a 53,245 crowd at a ...

In-form hooker Taukei'aho delivered another dominant display with two tries, the first in the third minute helping the All Blacks rapidly establish a 10-0 lead. With Tom Wright also carded for a professional foul following a stunning 60-metre Caleb Clarke bust, the Wallabies were reduced to 13 men. Tupaea's absence forced the All Blacks into a major backline reshuffle. They were down and out, and had no right to be close at the death. The Wallabies repelled the All Blacks maul attempt, winning a penalty which Raynal then deemed Foley took too long to kick into touch, leaving White to blow up at the referee. Instead of closing out the test, they immediately invited the Wallabies back.

At Marvel Stadium, Melbourne: All Blacks 39 (Samisoni Taukei'aho tries 4min & 41min, Richie Mo'unga try 52min, Will Jordan 55min, Jordie Barrett 80min; ...

A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. The try to Jordie Barrett in the final seconds. The rematch in Auckland will be a dread rubber. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. It was entertaining stuff, all the same. Ask anyone if they went to bed in the final minutes. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. It was the match winner. If they did they would have regretted it. You should have seen the Wallabies players' faces after this. And, like all good stories, there has to be a villain. At Marvel Stadium, Melbourne: All Blacks 39 (Samisoni Taukei'aho tries 4min & 41min, Richie Mo'unga try 52min, Will Jordan 55min, Jordie Barrett 80min; Mo'unga 4 con, 2 pen).

Jordie Barrett scored a controversial last-minute try to give the All Blacks a Bledisloe Cup-winning 39-37 win in the Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship Test ...

However, Australia won a penalty at a breakdown after the maul but Reyand made his time-wasting decision and awarded the scrum to the All Blacks. Tupaea had to be assisted from the field with a knee injury, leaving both he and Havili, who failed an HIA, out of the game. When it resumed he told Australia first five-eighths Bernard Foley to play, but he delayed, and delayed, and Raynal awarded the All Blacks the scrum that provided Barrett's try. Australia lost wing Tom Wright to the sinbin for cynical play after a sensational midfield run by wing Caleb Clarke. Australia conceded three penalties and each time the All Blacks put their lineout to use, finally succeeding with hooker Samisoni Taukei'aho crossing in the third minute. In the process, replacement flanker Dalton Papali'i, who had just come on for Sam Cane, who was having an HIA which he failed, was sin-binned for bringing the maul down.

Fullback's score after French referee's intervention allows All Blacks to retain Bledisloe Cup for another year. Now the Aussie post mortems will start.

Mo’unga kicked the sideline conversion for good measure and the All Blacks were 7-0 up after five minutes. Foley closed the gap with a penalty. Hooker Samisoni Taukei’aho scored two in total and was a standout yet again, and yet, while the All Blacks were extremely dominant at times, they couldn’t pull away. It got worse for the Australians. One of those yellow cards was for replacement lock Darcy Swain in an incident which may have been the major talking point if not for the very late drama. After a Caleb Clarke breakaway was eventually halted with the home side in disarray, Wallabies wing Tom Wright was adjudged to have cynically slowed the ball in the ruck and was yellow carded.

Rory Woods (Ngāti Kahu) is a grounded young man with a firm grasp of his Whakapapa. Strong connections with family and friends help drive his rugby greater ...

I drove down to Auckland with my Mum to catch a flight to New Plymouth but all the flights had been cancelled and I couldn't get another flight so we drove in the middle of the night to get there. “In Year 11 I was doing athletics to keep fit for rugby when I fractured both of my hips and tore the flexors. The team spent two days in camp before heading to the Republic. STAC turned 100 that season, winning the championship for the first time since its inception in 2001. “Tom’s death has given me another reason to get up and keep fighting. The former sports a mophead and helped Norths win the Jubilee Cup in August. It’s a great environment that really grows the player. The team was coached by former All Black Steven Bates with support from Dan Bowden and Waipu stalwart Graham Hughes. It was the biggest opportunity I’ve had in rugby so far. The lock and loose forward has been selected for the New Zealand Under-19 team to tour South Africa. “A month or two ago I heard a team was being selected but I wasn’t sure when it was being picked which made me anxious as I really wanted to make it. Woods was a regular representative selection in Wellington.

Former All Blacks captain and No8 Kieran Read said Bledisloe Cup rugby was always a special part of any season for the New Zealanders.

It was a really, really cool game to be part of." "The Cup became a really important piece of silverware for us. A lot of the other teams have a cup, but it's not with the history that the Bledisloe has over close to 100 years."

The All Blacks' defeat of Australia on Thursday, one of the most controversial rugby test matches ever witnessed has, unsurprisingly, sparked a wide range ...

It destroyed the result of the match and was a decision based on emotion and lack of rugby empathy over any form of legality or reason." He was a ref who wanted to own the result. New Zealand were able to retain the Bledisloe Cup, and also relieve pressure on their under fire coach Ian Foster." "The fickle hand of fate had turned on Australia in the cruellest way. If it's a once off, out of the blue, never to be repeated decision then it's bonkers." "It cost the Wallabies a famous win, when the hapless Frenchman, in the final throes of the match, called a bizarre scrummage as Bernard Foley was about to kick to touch from a penalty. South African journalist Brendan Nel wrote: "It was a massive call, and one that in 26 years of covering rugby I've never seen. The New Zealand coach, Ian Foster, called it "clear-cut". Former England five eighth Andy Goode also defended the call, writing: "Actually a decent call in my opinion from Mathieu Raynal to penalise the time wasting of Bernard Foley. Raynal had shouted "We play" on a couple of occasions as Bernard Foley waited for his pack to break from their tactical huddle behind him. What a thought." A long-range Nic White penalty goal had given Australia a lead for the first time with three minutes remaining after the side surged back from 31-13 down on the scoreboard.

Sam Whitelock turned down the shot at goal and the chance to draw the match. The Wallabies repelled the All Blacks maul attempt, winning a penalty which Raynal ...

In-form hooker Taukei'aho delivered another dominant display with two tries, the first in the third minute helping the All Blacks rapidly establish a 10-0 lead. Tupaea's absence forced the All Blacks into a major backline reshuffle. With Tom Wright also carded for a professional foul following a stunning 60-metre Caleb Clarke bust, the Wallabies were reduced to 13 men. They were down and out, and had no right to be close at the death. The Wallabies repelled the All Blacks maul attempt, winning a penalty which Raynal then deemed Foley took too long to kick into touch, leaving White to blow up at the referee. Instead of closing out the test, they immediately invited the Wallabies back.

Analysis - Breathtaking. That's the best word you could use to describe the All Blacks' thrilling 39-37 win over the Wallabies at Marvel Stadium in ...

Then the All Blacks' inability to cash in on a two-man advantage. At the post-match press conference, it was fair to say that there were very different views on the dramatic finish. It was earned the hard way too, with the All Blacks taking it to the Wallabies in the first 10 minutes of each half. By that point, the 53,000-strong crowd was either cheering or staring in disbelief. Bernard Foley wound the clock back to his 2015 World Cup form after being brought back in from the wilderness. It was looking like the All Blacks almost found another, somehow more painful way to drop a test match in 2022, giving up a 31-13 lead they'd built in the first hour.

Wallabies coach fumes while his All Blacks counterpart backs the ref for the contentious late-game delay decision that saw them escape with victory.

“You’ve got to have a feel for the game and the situation. I thought the referee was very clear with what he did, and whether people agree or disagree, he certainly had a very clear mind about it” “We’ve got a player who’s probably out for nine months and you’re not allowed to target legs on the side at cleanout past the ball. If you feel a team is wasting time, stop the clock and then they’ll kick it out and you play the game. Slipper said he has been left with a “sour taste” and feeling “unfulfilled” by a decision effectively plucked from nowhere. It’s just a real lack of a feel for the occasion.” So to lose it in that fashion is massively disappointing, and the boys are hurting. ”The ref told him to play, but at no stage was he told, or did he believe, he was going to call a scrum from that. But as we know a team scores a try late and you take your time getting back to halfway, you just stop the clock, and wait till the kickoff. It appeared unduly harsh and, Rennie felt, showed “a lack of a feel for the big occasion”. “Bernard was under the impression that time was off,” said a clearly exasperated Rennie after the game. The decisive moment occurred after the All Blacks appeared to have blown their shot at snatching victory at the death via a lineout-drive penalty option.

Mathieu Raynal's decision at the death has left the rugby world scratching its head.

All Blacks' coach Ian Foster had no doubts about a decision to penalise Australia for time-wasting that allowed New Zealand to claim a 39-37 win to retain ...

He said there were many Bledisloe Cup games that had been won in the last minute by either side, and it was a credit to both teams. Foster said there had been things in the game the All Blacks did well. He said 'Time off', warned them and said 'Time off', and said to speed it up, and then he said 'Time on'. They couldn't afford to let a team high on emotion and momentum back into the game. "So to get back-to-back wins, we're in a pretty good spot to finish strongly, rather than let them come back with all the momentum. If they had drawn, it would have taken the Bledisloe Cup to be decided next week in Auckland.

Wallabies' fans were left outraged following their team's loss to the All Blacks late in the first Bledisloe Cup Test.

We’re Australian citizens as well so we were cheering for both sides and the Aussies needed a win." “It was nice to see two teams have a really good game. Half of them I didn't think were real," he said.

Wellington will play its 100th Ranfurly Shield match when challenging Hawke's Bay to claim the prized Log of Wood for the first time in 14 years.

Wellington was the fourth challenger in 1930 and relieved Southland again. They have had 72 defences across the years compared to 40 by Wellington. Southland and Wellington were involved again in 1930.

All Blacks midfielder's rugby year is over with a serious knee injury after Swain's tackle which earned him a yellow card, and a trip to the judiciary.

A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. It’s the first time it’s happened in some ways, but let’s not treat that as a reason to get upset with the referee. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. It’s easy to point the finger, but they try to speed the game up. We won the game with our next play.” We didn’t win the game [on that call]. So we’ll review,” added Foster who confirmed loose forwards Ardie Savea (baby duty) and Shannon Frizell (ribs) would rejoin the squad in Auckland. The scrum awarded the New Zealanders enabled them to conjure the match-winning try. The rules are pretty clear.” He added on Friday: “We just let the process happen now. The case is to be considered in the first instance by the Sanzaar Foul Play Review Committee which will take place on Monday via video-conference. Referee Mathieu Raynal, awarded Swain a yellow card for the incident which occurred in the 35th minute.