Rugby-World New Zealand not the All Blacks for Scotland match
Posted by Admin on 9/17/2007 10:33 AM in No Category
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - New Zealand players will not be wearing black shirts at a World Cup game for the first time in 12 years when they face Scotland on Sunday but said it would not put them at any disadvantage.
As the home team, Scotland have chosen to wear their traditional dark blue jerseys for the Pool C match at Murrayfield meaning that New Zealand will have to don their silver-grey second strip to avoid a colour clash.
The last time New Zealand wore a non-black jersey at the tournament was against Scotland in the 1995 quarter-finals. Wearing white did not appear to hurt them as they won 48-30.
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"We're still playing for New Zealand and running out with the same guys. I guess it won't make a difference, but we'll see," second row Chris Jack told reporters on Monday.
Prop Tony Woodcock agreed with his team mate.
"It's still got the silver fern on, that's the main part," he said.
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