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Sat 11 Nov 2009Gatland talks down All Blacks
Wales v New Zealand:NOT SINCE their then team manager Geoff Evans declared in 1995 that Wales were bigger, better, faster and fitter than New Zealand have the men in red gone into a match against the All Blacks so aggressively bullish despite decades of failure in the fixture.
Evans learned to his cost that provoking the All Blacks verbally was the equivalent of disturbing a wasps’ nest with a baseball bat and Wales suffered multiple stings as they crashed 34-9 in Johannesburg. They have opted for a different line of attack this week, not so much talking themselves up as running down the opposition, going on about a fading aura and vulnerability.
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