Replacements: A Woodcock (North Harbour) for Hayman 25-27 and for Meeuws 73; A Hore (Taranaki) for Mealamu 33-40; M Holah (Waikato) for McCaw 63; N Evans (North Harbour) for Rokocoko 66; S Tuitupou (Auckland) for Carter 73.ENGLAND: J Lewsey (Wasps); J Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester), M Tindall (Bath), M Catt (London Irish), B Cohen (Northampton); C Hodgson (Sale), M Dawson (Northampton); T Woodman (Sale), S Thompson (Northampton), J White (Leicester), S Shaw (Wasps), D Grewcock (Bath), C Jones (Sale), R Hill (Saracens), L Dallaglio (Wasps, capt). Steve Borthwick may start alongside Simon Shaw at lock, Joe Worsley will surely feature in the back row and there can be no earthly point in denying Stuart Abbott, the Wasps centre, an opportunity in midfield.In fact, Woodward could send out an entirely new XV and not be any more embarrassed than he was at Carisbrook. “I didn’t come all the way down here just to put on a brave face,” he said. Sadly, that may be all that is left to him.New Zealand: Tries: Spencer, Rokocoko, Howlett Conversions Carter 3 Penalties Carter 5.

England: Penalty Hodgson.NEW ZEALAND: M Muliaina (Auckland); D Howlett (Auckland), T Umaga (Wellington, capt), D Carter (Canterbury), J Rokocoko (Auckland); C Spencer (Auckland), J Marshall (Canterbury); K Meeuws (Auckland), K Mealamu (Auckland), C Hayman (Otago), C Jack (Canterbury), K Robinson (Waikato), J Gibbes (Waikato), R McCaw (Canterbury), X Rush (Auckland). Assuming Woodward was being straight yesterday – “I have 31 players here and as none of them came along for the ride, they are all under consideration,” the coach said – there could be as many as five changes for the Eden Park Test. “But when it came to the kick-off I was worried they’d send the ball straight to me. I thought: ‘Oh shit, here we go.’ Thankfully, it went to Rokocoko instead, and he ran 40 metres.”If the All Blacks scarcely looked back from that horribly early moment, England barely put their heads above the parapet. “When we performed the haka, it was everything I’d dreamed it would be from boyhood,” he said. It was easy to understand his choice of adjective, for he had anticipated a far more extreme test of mind and body. Why not make him coach? He does everything else.As the celebratory beer – or what passes for beer in this part of the world – began to flow, Gibbes talked about the surreal” nature of the game.

He tackled, he rucked, he carried the ball, he claimed possession from the restarts. An Auckland-born Maori who captained the Waikato Chiefs to the knock-out phase of this year’s Super 12 tournament, he was the manager of the New Zealanders’ driving maul and the governor of their line-out. It was in many ways the worst moment of the match, for the score resulted from a bog-standard back-line move straight off first phase. Set-piece tries are as rare as hen’s teeth against Wilkinson-led defences.England’s back-rowers might have made Hodgson’s life a little more comfortable had they been on their games, but they were blown away by McCaw and the two fresh ingredients in the All Black mix, Jono Gibbes and Xavier Rush. Gibbes hurt England so often and in so many areas that it is a difficult to recall a more convincing performance from a Test debutant. Armed this time with 16 of his World Cup squad and the pick of an ambitious new generation, he expected to win.He might as well have expected a free trip to the moon, with dinner included.

“In last year’s match, we made 250 tackles in 80 minutes and missed six; this time, we missed four straight from the kick-off. But I don’t have Jonny here, so there’s no point even mentioning the guy.”All the same, the coach must yearn for his presence. Rokocoko would not have scored New Zealand’s second try a minute short of the half-hour mark had Wilkinson been in residence; the approach work of Muliaina, Marshall and Richie McCaw was exceptional, but Hodgson’s powder-puff tackle on the big Fijian-born wing as he cut an angle towards the posts bordered on the lamentable. Hodgson was slightly less culpable when Howlett outpaced him in a right-wing channel approximately 18 inches wide as the first half slipped into stoppage time, but this did not brighten Woodward’s mood Quite the opposite, in fact. Charlie Hodgson is a wonderfully creative stand-off and he worked his socks off on Saturday, but he is no Wilkinson in the tackling department.”Jonny is a special player all round and we miss him in many ways,” Woodward conceded yesterday, before returning to the team base in Auckland to prepare for this weekend’s thankless second Test at Eden Park, a venue second only to Carisbrook in terms of impregnability.