THE wait goes on, and so does the hurt, the angst and the frustration. Still Wales must delay the anointment of the next Ken Jones, still they look for the man who will end this horribly enduring torment. This was far from the most convincing of New Zealand's 21 straight victories in the fixture, a run that spans some 56 years, but for Wales it will be all the more hard to take because of that very fact.
The All Blacks were at the very top of their game for about 20 minutes, the second-half spell in which they won it. Wales were good, just not good enough, to take advantage of this fall-off. They only took charge in the final 10 minutes, by which