Test rugby is not immune to the levels of ennui that seem to be prevalent in society as everything from the pandemic to the glut of entertainment options to the general awfulness of social media leads to the sense there is nothing to get really excited about any more. Even test week in Dunedin, once labelled "Rugby City", ain’t what it used to be. This is only the 14th test between the All Blacks and Ireland in New Zealand, and just the third in Dunedin. What chance tomorrow night, the eighth All Blacks test to be played at Forsyth Barr Stadium, will be an arm-wrestle on that scale? Fingers crossed for a barn-storming test.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 07, 2022 22:36 UTC