Typical start to the international rugby season, with All Blacks taking a couple tests to get into their stride at the expense of the French. It started out with an error-prone 42-10 win last weekend, but things improved a bit last night to run up the biggest score ever against Les Bleus - 61-10. Sure, it was a third-string French team which ended the match with only 14 players after the entire reserves bench had been used up, but it was a reasonable warm-up for the Tri-Nations. And the outcome broke the world record for number of consecutive wins at home - 23.
It was only the second test I've ever been to, although I missed a fair bit of it in an attempt to take some pictures. All were total shite, but I at least got this photo of Julien Laharrague scoring the only French try of the evening. All the official photographers were at the other end of the ground recording the usual wave of All Black tries, but this may be a unique picture.
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