15:  Mils Muliaina.  6/10

A better performance than last weeks against the Canadians, but still not at his best.  A step in the right direction though, and if he is given the start next week against the Convicts, I think it’ll be the Muliaina of old that we get.  A couple of handling errors that cost the All Blacks points, and a few desperate grabs to fix mistakes that he made as he tried just sooo hard to make things come together.

14:  Joe Rokocoko.  7/10
It was not really a backs game, as the handling errors made the wingers seeing the ball as rare as props scoring tries.  Did pretty much everything right though when near the ball, and scored the match winning try from a nice MacDonald draw and pass.  Defended strongly, and busy throughout.

13:  Isaia Toeava.  7/10
Quite game from Ice – one handling error that was called, and one that he got away with.  Tidy throughout, showed some great pace to go on the outside of some Boer back at one stage, but limited opportunities. 

12:  Aaron Mauger.  7/10
Like most of the backline, pretty quite, as there was not a great deal of quality ball dished out to the back divisions by either side.  One major blooper when he popped the ball up into a flying Butch James’ hands for the customary intercept try.  Controlled and directed play well.

11:  Sitevini Sivivatu.  7/10
See all the above – quiet game, as per all of the All Black backline, but what he did was quality and done well.  No worries about work rate for either of the cousins on the wings now, all good.

10:  Dan Carter.  6/10
Not a vintage day at the office from Carter, but still the game was won, and 13 points from the boot not too bad a return.  Missed three kicks at goal, one sitter that you would expect him to get every time, the other two from a bit further out.  General play not flash, but still, with the Boer defence being on the wrong side of the offside line more often than not, he coped pretty well.  Would be interesting to see how any other tens would have handled the heat.

9:  Byron Kelleher.  7/10
Took the Boers on in close, copped a hiding in the process, but kept on keeping on regardless.  Was hassled a lot at the back of the Kiwi maul and ruck, perhaps should have gone in with a foot first, removing any hands around the ball before picking it up.  Perhaps too could have hoped for a bit more accuracy and protection from the ref too.

8, 7 and 6:  Rodney So’oilao, Richie McCaw and Jerry Collins.  10/10
As a unit, as individuals, here was the winning of the match for the All Blacks.  The moment of the match the So’oilao run, the link up with Collins on the straight run, and a few phases later, McCaw scoring the try that broke the back of the Bokke. 
All three players were massive for the full 80.  Defending like berserkers for the first 30 minutes, before being allowed to show their skills more as the game wore on.  Collins taking the ‘hit ups’ from the Boer kicks time and time again, picking some poor Boer defender, and then drilling him (or All Black prop, as the case may be)!  So’oialo linking and carting up like a bulldozer too,.  McCaw, just McCaw, ball in hand dynamic, on the ground, dynamic, and as a human punching bag for the Boers, dynamic.  Outstanding conditioning, from all three, to be able to be going for 80 minutes with that sort of work rate too.

5:  Troy Flavell.  7/10
OK, so one brain explosion apart, where he kicked that farking ball, with an unmarked back inside him, and inside the 22, I thought Flavell buckled down and did a locks job first and foremost.  However, I think that you need to pair him up with a genuine lock – one of our top three, as opposed to Rawlinson, and then we would see the best from Flavell, as he is a devastating ball carrier, but had to do too much tight work in this test to suit his natural game.  Strange, wanting him to play looser, but that is the game he is best at – just at Keith Robinson’s best game is being at every single ruck and maul in a game, attacking it with all his 15 elbows and 9 knees…

4:  Greg Rawlinson.  6/10
Definitely not the dynamic player that the missing five locks are, but he filled the gap with honours.  Did his basics well, was part of a dominant scrum, and part of a lineout that while never looking in control, still snatched 15/18.

3:  Carl Hayman.  8/10
Hardly recall seeing the man mountain during the game, except when he was making big Os think “maybe it IS time to retire from this young mans game”.  At the coal face for the full 80, just what you want from your anchor.

2:  Anton Oliver.  8/10
Throwing was a dream – this legs side by side technique, as opposed to the old one leg in front of the other, where he had the wrong leg forward (sort of like a fast bowler bowling off the wrong leg) anyway, has improved him out of site.  Sure lost a couple of lineouts off his throw, but that was kudos to the Boers, more than bad work by the All Blacks.  Ground down the Boer front row with Hayman and Woodcock before being subbed for Mealmau.  Solid all round game from the big man, a try saving tackle early in the game as the Boers hammered the All Black line.  Good to see old Grenade Face back at his best, and a good problem for the Cartel – Oliver or Mealamu to start matches?

1:  Tony Woodcock.  8/10
As per Hayman, hardly seen, except when he was shoved into the way of an oncoming train early in the game (Scary Jerry on a kick return, a cunning ploy by the Boer), and when he lost the ball when it should have gone wide at any rate later in the second spell as the All Blacks turned up the blow torch on the Bokke.  Scrummed well, and an 80 minute performance to be proud of.

The substitutes.  8/10
MacDonald, McAlister, Weepu, all came on, and there fresh legs just tore the exhausted Bokke defence to shreads.  All looked like they should have started, but then, if they had been on the field since the start, they too would have had to contend with the berserkers the Boers are for the first 20 minutes of a game, and Muliaina, Mauger and Kelleher would have looked like super stars.

The referee, old what’s his face - Roland.  4/10
I think Kiwipie summed it up best - “he spent most of the game telling players not to do things, and then not penalising them when they did it”.
Shocker.