D'arcy And Goran

The All Blacks are taking their medicine as far as Scott Barrett's suspension is concerned and that extends to the unsavoury breakdown activities of the Wallabies last weekend as they eye easily the most important test of their year so far: the battle for the retention of the Bledisloe Cup.They've copped Barrett's three-week ban for the shoulder charge on Michael Hooper during the 47-26 defeat in Perth without complaint, an unsurprising approach given Barrett will effectively miss only Saturday's return test at Eden Park.Barrett will serve the other two weeks of his ban by missing two rounds of Taranaki's Mitre 10 Cup campaign, and whether he would have played in those matches or not is a moot point: he will be available for the warm-up test against Tonga in Hamilton on September 7 and, fitness permitting, for the All Blacks' first game of the World Cup against the Springboks a fortnight later.The All Blacks accept also that they were physically dominated around the Optus Stadium pitch, a state of affairs tha