All Blacks to play Wales

New Zealand: 15-Beauden Barrett, 14-Ben Smith, 13-Ryan Crotty, 12-Sonny Bill Williams, 11-Rieko Ioane, 10-Richie Mo’unga, 9-Aaron Smith, 8-Kieran Read (captain), 7-Sam Cane, 6-Shannon Frizell, 5-Scott Barrett, 4-Brodie Retallick, 3-Nepo Laulala, 2-Dane Coles, 1-Joe Moody. Replacements: 16-Liam Coltman, 17-Atu Moli, 18-Angus Ta’avao, 19-Patrick Tuipulotu, 20-Matt Todd, 21-Brad Weber, 22-Anton Lienert-Brown, 23-Jordie Barrett. 

Lets face facts - Hansen made a hu ge mistake by selecting S Barrett as a loosie.   Leaving out Ioane from the English test was a mistake too,   

I am afraid the selection of Smith and Williams is what one can call a Meyer idiocy selection,  Both are not up to standard anymore.  Neither is Read.   

Despite the above I think the AB's will beat Wales in the Bronze Final.      

I'd still have Ben Smith on the park any day of the week.

Smith is a reputation player - not what he used to be as a performer ..    

Ben Smith, Reece, Goodhue, Brown, Ioane, Barrett, Smith.......was theABs' best bet. They got it horribly wrong.

Ben Smith is class but they have crappy centres. Why oh why is Barrett at 15 even now??? Moonga sucks. He always sucked. Hansen... your an embarrassment to the love fern.

Let's take a moment to enjoy the performance of the "Meyer idiocy selection", the "reputation player" Ben Smith:

11 runs, 68m, 3 breaks, 8 beaten, 2 offloads and 2 tries (could easily have been 3).