No Easy All Blacks: Nadolo
There is no easy All Blacks team, says burly Flying Fijian winger Nemani Nadolo.
In an interview yesterday, Nadolo reacted to New Zealand media reports that the All Blacks are fielding new players and are not at their best.
“The All Blacks are the All Blacks,” the Leicester Tigers rep said.
“The All Blacks are a world class team for a reason.
“They have produced top class players like no tomorrow.”
Nadolo said those that will be named in the Flying Fijians starting line-up for Saturday knows about the big task ahead of them.
“What a way to test ourselves against the best team in the world right at their backyard,” he added.
“We see it as a great opportunity, take our learnings from it and we’ve nothing to lose.”
After outlying the facts behind the All Blacks, like any other sporting team, Nadolo says, they are going in with a winning mentality.
“I’ve faith in our players who are world class in their own right. We’ll make sure to play our roles and stick to our game plan. We’ll put up a strong side.”
Nadolo played 39 Super Rugby matches for the Crusaders from 2014 to 2016. In 2014, he was the Super Rugby top try scorer.
Earlier, Nadolo represented the Australia Under-20 to the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship where he also was the top try scorer.
Despite the late arrival of the Australia and Europebased players to camp because of the disruption of flights and closure of the border due to the pandemic, Nadolo said the morale among the players is high.
“We had faced an almost similar situation during last year’s Autumn Nations Cup where we were locked down for about six to eight weeks. We are used to this and we’ve dealt with it really well.
“It’s this time of experience that brings the boys together. And for us Fijians we are strong willed and fight through circumstances like this.”