Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakatūpato te kaiako o Wales a Robin McBryde ki ngā kaiwhaiwhai, ko te whutupaoro ātaahua, ātaahua hoki, he mea iti noa iho i te kaupapa i mua i te Whakamātautau RBS 6 Nations o te Rāhoroi ki a Ireland. Ko nga korero hou mai i te rangatira o All Blacks a Steve Hansen mo te keemu e 'whakatau ana ki nga parenga e aukati ana i te whakaeke' kua whakaoho i te tautohetohe mo te hokohoko o te hakinakina, me te matapae a McBryde i tetahi atu pakanga o te whakaekenga i te Millennium Stadium. I te pātai mēnā e tūmanako ana ia ki tētahi hakari o te hākinakina hākinakina, ka mea te 44-tau-tau: 'E kore au e tino mōhio ki tērā. He nui ngā mea kei te tūpono. Kei te haere a Ireland ki tētahi Grand Slam, ā, ko te haere atu i Cardiff mā te wikitōria anake, ko te mea anake e hiahia ana rātou ki te mahi. Ko te kaiako o Wales a Robin McBryde e kii ana ko te wikitoria i tua atu i te whutupaoro ataahua te mea nui ki a raatau. Ko Jamie Roberts (matau) e mahi ana mō Wales i te tukinga o ngā Whenua e Ono ki Wīwī i te Stade de France. I kii tata mai a Steve Hansen o Aotearoa kei te huri haere te whutupaoro ki te momo whakangungu. 'Mā te tākaro i tētahi hākinakina hākinakina ātaahua, ka whai wāhi tuarua tērā. Koinei te āhua o te kēmu i tēnei wā, ā, ko te āhua o ngā kapa e whakamamae ana i a rātau anō, ā, heoi anō, me utu e ngā kaimātakitaki he utu mō tērā.' E rua noa iho ngā wā i hinga ai a Wales i a Ireland ki Cardiff i roto i ngā tau 32 kua hipa, ā, e tūmanako ana a McBryde ki tētahi o ngā wero tino uaua ki te wā nei ki te kapa toa. 'Kei te haere rātou ki te pōti i tēnei wā <unk> 10 wikitōria i runga i te peke,' i mea a McBryde. 'Ko te tino i te waho titiro te reira he puni tino hari. He kapa tino whakamataku tēnei o Ireland, ā, me whakapau kaha tātou ki te whakatata atu ki a rātou.' Ka aro katoa ngā kanohi ki te pakanga o te rangi i te wā e whai ana ngā kaihautū ki te whakamutu i te whakatinanatanga o te Grand Slam a ngā manuhiri, kia ora ai ō rātou ake tūmanako toa. Kua mahi rātau i ngā haora anō hei whakakore i te whakaekenga rererangi mai i a Jonathan Sexton rāua ko Conor Murray, ā, kua oati a Rhys Webb ki te kore e whakahua i ngā hapa i mahia e Ingarangi i Dublin i ngā wiki e rua ki muri. 'E kore ahau e mohio ki te mea hanga Ingarangi nui tātari i runga i ratou,' ka mea Webb....
Ka whawhai a Wales ki a Ireland i te Six Nations i te Millennium Stadium. E mea ana te kaiako a Robin McBryde ka takaro ratou i te kino ki te hiahia ratou ki te wikitoria. I whakahe te kaiwhakahaere o Aotearoa a Steve Hansen i te tākaro ārai. E mea ana a McBryde ko te wikitoria te mea tuatahi ki a Wales hei te Rāhoroi. Ka tūtaki rātou ki tētahi kapa o Ireland kāore anō kia hinga i te whakataetae o tēnei tau.