All Blacks tap Irish intel as Ioane joins squad for Eden Park showdown

At Eden Park, where thirty-two years of unbeaten history press down on every preparation, Dave Rennie is doing something quietly unusual: he is turning recent exile into tactical wisdom, calling on players who have lived inside Irish rugby to help decode what Ireland does and why. The All Blacks enter this test not as complacent custodians of a fortress, but as a side actively reckoning with their own imbalances — too much ball, too little air — against an Irish team that still carries the memory of winning on New Zealand soil. What unfolds this weekend is less a clash of records than a collis