Rookies provide bright spot for rusty All Blacks

Dutch giant Fabian Holland and No 8 Christian Lio-Willie started the match, with 22-year-old lock Holland playing the full 80 minutes. "He could have played 100 minutes," Robertson said, celebrating Holland's "huge engine". Prop Ollie Norris and flanker Du'Plessis Kirifi joined from the bench, providing a spark which helped the team home. The quartet were the undoubted bright spots in a rusty New Zealand performance against a France side boasting eight rookies -- and written off as a supposed "B-team".