Finding HAPPINESS
It’s a roll call that can go two ways.
Delight, or despair. Tears of joy, or just tears.
When the chair of New Zealand Rugby reads out the first All Blacks squad of the year, he does it in alphabetical order.
So this year as the squad for the three-test series against Ireland was announced in June, it included-“Dalton Papali’i, Blues and Counties Manukau. Stephen Perofeta, Bluesand Taranaki. Sevu Reece, Crusaders and Tasman.”
It took a moment to register the most notable absentee. For the first time in almost a decade, TJ Perenara had been left out.
Aaron Smith was joined by Finlay Christie and debutant Folau Fakatava in the halfback trio, leaving Perenara and Brad Weber – both of whom wore the black jersey at
