Simon Easterby prepares defence as All Blacks run with Beaudie

Beauden Barrett. Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane

Simon Easterby has the least enviable job in rugby this weekend as the defence coach of the side facing New Zealand.

The number one team on the planet are the scorers of a Test-record 675 points in this calendar year, a mark the All Blacks reached with a 49-7 hammering of Italy in Rome last weekend when Crusaders number 10 Richie Mo’unga was pulling the strings and his positional rival Beauden Barrett was having a well-earned weekend off having earned his 100th cap with two tries in a 54-16 walloping of Wales in Cardiff seven days previously.