After all its only a game. if you don't lose from time to time you never realy learn anything, why do the public have totrach the all blacks becouse they lost a game.

How do you think the players feel when they get negetive feed back from so called fans

Henry for PM @ 129,

Are you simply trying to convince yourself that it (RWC) is insignificant, so that it does not matter if/when AB choke in 2011. News flash, Ranking in any sport means nothing if you can't produce the goods at the big show. Your argument is akin to saying that being NRL undefeated Minor Premiers is better than winning the Grand Final when you lose same. Ridiculous really.

Henry said this tour was about giving a few of the younger guys a chance to prove themselves and put their names forward in the run up to the world cup. I am sure the Baa Baa's game gave Henry & Co the look they needed, but in saying that he is probably a bit worried now!!

Gridiron of course he would want to..cos the All Blacks are THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD! The IRB rankings prove it. Not some stupid rigged world cup or some dodgy referee. Put Habana up against Sivi or Nonu ..watch them squash him into the dirt. How many of those Baa Baa's would even make the All Blacks top team I ask you? Not Giteau, he is useless, not Burger,too slow, definitely not any of the Pommies. It doesn't matter anyway cos the rankings are out and The All Blacks are world champs yet again!!!

The Barbarians are a team of superstars? Some of them so super that they were too good to be in the AB side. Hey Joe? No one should worry about the score. Provided you win and win well. The Barbarians had about 1 week preparation, as a team. Henry knows that he needs Carter to win. That is why he was rushed back in at supersonic speed, after his injury. A dangerous tackle which takes out DC at the beginning of the world cup would spell the end for the AB's. Likewise if McCaw gets himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The worrying thing is that the opposition are well aware of the reliance the AB's have on these two blokes.

@henry for pm I don't think that Bryan Habana would ever wanna play for the AB'S even if they offered it to him on a plate mate...the AB'S are not worth playing for...I think the Ab's wish they had some1 like Bryan Habana on their team!!!

Henry knew the Baabaas players that were going to play the Ab's ..but still he chose his side... I just think that he was scared to loose with a supposedly A Team..it would be far easier and more acceptable for the supporters to loose with a supposedly B Team..just saying!!!

Seriously, worrying about the score in a Barbarians game is a bit like worrying about the score in a Harlem Globetrotters game.

hahah I can;t believe it. If AB 'fans' were Transformers, they would have to be called:

'NEGATORRRRRS'

For all the broken records that harp on about cheapening the jersey, you conveniently forget that they had NO midweek games in which to test other players. Do you all really believe that we should play the same top team week in/week out? What happens if 1 (or more) of them go down in RWC final? You would all be moaning about the lack of depth.

And for all you people saying that losses like this are taking away from the aura and invincibility of the ABs, do you realise that the ABs winning % today is actually far higher than the era's gone by, out of which the 'aura' developed. Funny how we romanticise the past, when in actual fact we lost more games back then.

Finally, we are lucky in that we back a team that very rarely lose yet we are consistently taught a lesson by fans from other countries who get in behind their teams, despite their teams performing poorly on a regular basis.

Just think about it.

that was the last chance for Messam. massively over-hyped and just not consistent enough in an international. in NPC his lack of work can be overlooked, but here... no place for drifters.

Stephen 84# Feelings are all you have bro. You need skill or ability or ah umh