Daly pushing for Test place

put their hands up and there will be healthy debate. The selection meeting will be tough and that’s the way we want it. All the coaches will have a voice. ‘Jack Nowell was prolific in terms of getting his hands on the ball and took his tries. Elliot looked sharp and so did Liam. It was a combination that looked pretty dangerous.’ Gatland faces big calls in the back row and back three. North was a star of the 2013 tour but is short of confidence, while Irish flanker Peter O’Mahony is edging towards the captaincy. The squad yesterday took a late-night coach to Auckland, where they face the All Blacks at Eden Park on Saturday, and Gatland insisted players are peaking at the right time. ‘We are getting stronger and stronger,’ he said. ‘We’re playing against teams that score multiple tries and defensively we’re strangling them. We’re creating chances and starting to finish them. We have got better the longer we’ve been in New Zealand. Combinations have come together. Whatever people might say about a split in the camp, those boys are pretty together. There was a real spirit in there and there was a sing-song after the game. ‘But on Saturday we are up against the best team in the world in their own back yard, where they haven’t lost since 1994. It’s going to be a big test.’ Daly said: ‘At the start of the year I didn’t think I had a chance of making the Test team. If I get anywhere near it would be unbelievable. ‘You’ve done as much as you can now and whoever gets selected we are going to get behind them 100 per cent. We know what we want to do out here.’ Nowell also gave his best performance of the tour yesterday, saying: ‘It hasn’t come a lot for the wings — it’s been wet and drizzly — but we’re pushing each other.’