Wales are still waiting to discover whether a number of key players will be available for selection to face New Zealand in Cardiff on Saturday.
George North, Taulupe Faletau, Leigh Halfpenny, Alex Cuthbert, Gareth Anscombe and Josh Adams are all carrying niggles and faced a key training session on Tuesday afternoon to determine their readiness for the first and most difficult of Wales’ autumn internationals.
“They have trained okay, but this session will tell whether they can come through,” Jonathan Humphreys, the forwards coach, said. “They are getting there. You can only test that when we go pretty physical, which we will do this afternoon. We’ll be OK but clearly a couple of these boys are key to us.”
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