Hell’s bells, what a game. They’ll need to get the plumbers in to the Principality Stadium to refit the kitchen sink Wales tore out and heaved at the All Blacks. They came at them with everything they had, body, heart, soul, hymns, arias, and all. And it still wasn’t enough.
They made more mistakes than you can get away with against a team as sharp as this New Zealand side, even at the end of a long, gruelling year of Test rugby. But the 33-18 scoreline, stretched wide by the brilliant finishing of the two wings, Rieko Ioane and Waisake Naholo, was a sorry reward for a Wales team who had done so much so well.
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