4:10am, 07 July 2022Former All Black captain Kieran Read has leapt to the defence of current captain Sam Cane after British scribe Stuart Barnes of The Times called for the openside to be dropped. The captain was labelled a ‘liability’ by Barnes who noted his missed tackle on Ringrose led to an Irish try. “I tell you what, a guy like Sam is bloody needed in test footy,” Read told Stuff.co.nz. “And all that stuff, that’s his game. “What you don’t see on TV is that work off the ball… all that stuff that commentators don’t really talk about.

Source: Stuff July 07, 2022 11:28 UTC