It’s four days after Dan Carter starred in a demolition job over the Wallabies, and he is sitting in the Eden Rugby clubrooms, a couple of spiral kicks away from Eden Park, with a smile as wide as the 41-13 scoreline by which his team retained the Bledisloe Cup.

New Zealand winger Hosea Gear is not taking a place in the All Blacks World Cup squad for granted, despite scoring five tries in four games on their Grand Slam tour of the Home Unions.

NEW ZEALAND Barbarians forward Troy Flavell has been cited after Richard Hill suffered a broken nose during Saturday’s Zurich World Champions Challenge at Twickenham.

IN a way, a new season starts for Leinster tonight.