All Blacks promise an indoor try-feast
The All Blacks have two key factors in their favour – they have already won the series and Saturday's game is played in Dunedin's indoor stadium.
Seasoned lock Brodie Retallick – in line to play his 50th Test – said there is no reason why the All Blacks should not play some "attacking rugby".
"We pride ourselves on always finishing strongly and playing until the 80th minute, so for us knowing that it's going to be a dry track and we can keep attacking is exciting," Retallick said in an interview on allblacks.com.
One area where they would be looking at for better execution is at the breakdown.
Retallick said the Welsh sometimes didn't commit to rucks so when the All Blacks went in there was nothing for them to clean out, whereas other times the would arrive late and try to kick the ball out and then other times they would pile in to try and slow the ball down by getting over the top of it.
Prop Owen Franks said the Welsh were a physical side, who played at a fast pace and the contest had been enjoyable from a tight five perspective.
"We made some good improvements from the first week, a little step up so we'll focus again this week to see if we can take another step up to improve," he said.
Meanwhile the All Black selectors face a couple in interesting selection posers.
Assistant coach Ian Foster said the selectors were determined to get the best team on the field for the final match in the three-Test series.
"We're up 2-0, we're assessing how the guys are going that haven't been playing and if we put them in [whether] that is going to lift our performance is our primary driver," Foster told allblacks.com.
The team overall hadn't been as relaxed as might be preferred during the first two Tests but that was to be expected with a new group and it was hoped there would be more relaxation evident as play became more instinctive with time.
Foster said centre Seta Tamanivalu, who had time off the bench in both of the first two Tests, should be really pleased with his performance.
It had been a little different in Wellington when coming on as a blood bin replacement for Malakai Fekitoa, then coming off when Fekitoa returned, and then coming on again for the second half.
"The attack side of his game, we were pretty pleased. He touched the ball almost twice as much as he has been averaging in Super Rugby, he got involved, he carried strong and he contributed to our attack," Foster said.
"He got caught in that first receiver role a few times, probably from working too hard and that was a new experience for him, and that's clearly a work-on, and the defensive stuff, centre is not an easy position to defend in, so he's just chipping away at getting better and better at that.
"He's got some really good qualities, he's physical, big and fast. He's still got a lot to learn as do a lot of players about just the speed and intensity that things happen but overall it has been a good couple of weeks for him."
Source: @AllBlacks
