It's stirring, emotional and passionate but they haven't grafted enough game smarts on to all that ceremony. The Kiwis can start a pack of mountain men but who will do the Sherpas' work, the hard toil and slog to free the main men for their assault on the Four Nations tournament tomorrow against England? Plenty of seethe and hiss all right but when their tallies are totted up, they have not been doing the business. That can be waived as an awkward start for Kidwell as he moved into the top job vacated by Stephen Kearney. Kidwell is up against an enduring coaching legend in Wayne Bennett who brings one of the great minds to the game.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 28, 2016 16:06 UTC