WINGER Scott Hamilton will make his debut and prop Greg Somerville will play his 50th Test when New Zealand meet Argentina in Buenos Aires on Saturday.

OUT of the picture, out of the frame. At half-time last Saturday the first TV commercial that aired on the big screen Saturday in Lansdowne Road blared that out, an appropriate soundtrack for underwhelmed Irish fans; their team was 25-0 down at that point, and as the old saying goes, lucky to get nil.

ALL BLACKS hooker Anton Oliver is out of contention for the first test against the Lions. He has failed to recover from his calf injury and will not play in Christchurch next Saturday.

A SLIGHTLY experimental All Blacks will face Fiji in their first test of the year tomorrow as coach Graham Henry fine-tunes the side ahead of the three-test Lions series.