{"id":1126,"date":"2025-11-15T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:12:06","slug":"england-v-new-zealand-damian-mckenzie-sets-example-for-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"England v New Zealand: Damian McKenzie sets example for hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For 20 minutes at Murrayfield last weekend, little was going right for Damian McKenzie.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, 5ft 8in, 12 stone, fair hair, fresh face, looks a little out of place among the flying breeze blocks elsewhere on the pitch.<\/p>\n

Initially, after coming off the bench in the 44th minute against Scotland, he felt it too.<\/p>\n

“Kyle Steyn had just scored for them when I came on,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We kicked off, they put up a box kick from nine, I went up to catch it and wasn’t able to. I knocked my head as well.<\/p>\n

“Blood started pouring out. We were most of the time on defence. We got a scrum, I kicked it out, but didn’t make too many metres.<\/p>\n

“Then I missed a tackle on Darcy Graham, luckily Cam Roigard saved the try in the corner, but I cut my chin. That started bleeding and I thought, ‘here we go, it’s going to be a long last 15 minutes’.”<\/p>\n

It was a crucial 15 minutes as well.<\/p>\n

At that point, the score was 17-17. The All Blacks were a man down via Wallace Sititi’s yellow card. Scotland were sniffing history.<\/p>\n

In 120 years of trying, a first win over New Zealand was a single point and a quarter of an hour away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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