Foster warns All Blacks are planning ‘great’ performance

Whatever the result in the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, history will be made.

Either the All Blacks will put the seal on an unbeaten season — a first for a major nation in the pro era — or Ireland will produce the mother of all upsets and claim a first ever win against a side some reckon to be the finest in history.

The tourists were asked about both records yesterday, one of them imminent, the other ominous, but the truth is that such matters barely seem to register as they thunder through one opponent after another.