Blues player Saili is unlikely to be required for next Saturday's clash. Photo / Getty Images
Francis Saili ran out for his first All Black test with a piece of advice written in black marker on one wrist.
The message read: "Stay in the now", and it was advice he initially ignored. His awful start - a dropped pass which led to Juan Manuel Leguizamon's try
in the opening minutes - came because he got ahead of himself.
Saili said afterwards that he was thinking about his options before Dan Carter's pass was safely caught, but, mistake made, it was advice which helped him recover from it. He finished the test on the right side of the ledger.
Second-five Saili revealed Kieran Read and Aaron Smith helped to boost his confidence as he and his teammates came together after Leguizamon's try.
"[They] said 'next task mate, next job ... you'll bounce back'. For me it was [concentrating] on the next task. Luckily it was early in the game because if it was in the 78th minute it would have been a bummer, a battle [to put things right]. I just had to move on from that little error and just not dwell on it."
