Captain Rory Best will not lead his side into the kind of nose-to-nose confrontation that Anderson produced with All Black Wayne Shelford in 1989. Ireland's players linked arms before that 23-6 Dublin defeat, advancing on the All Blacks mid-haka - yet Best insisted Joe Schmidt's men treat the ceremonial war dance with full respect but as a "sideshow". "Because there have been a few incidents they don't allow you to go past the 10m line anyway," Best said. The haka is a great spectacle, a great sideshow for supporters. Still without a win in 111 years against New Zealand, Ireland came within a whisker of ending that hoodoo in 2013.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 05, 2016 07:17 UTC