All Black Will Jordan is backing team-mate Damian McKenzie to ship in opposition to Eire within the Aviva Stadium on Friday night time.
The 29-year-old will begin within the customer’s ten jersey in Dublin after Beauden Barrett picked up an harm of their win over England final week.
“It is thrilling. Damian is somebody who likes to play the sport with an attacking mindset and aptitude,” stated Jordan.
“I’ve had a few video games with him at ten and me out the again and I’ve loved the mixture we have had.
“We hit it off collectively off the park, good buddies. It is all the time enjoyable working out with somebody that you just’re shut with.
“I do know he’ll be excited to take this chance. He is had some nice moments for us within the black jersey this 12 months and I am certain he’ll exit and nail it on Friday night time.”
Whereas New Zealand acquired the higher of issues when these sides final met, popping out on high 28-24 on the quarter-final stage of the 2023 World Cup, Jordan doesn’t assume previous conferences have a lot that means come Friday, particularly with the All Blacks beneath a distinct head coach in Scott Robertson.
“Inside you’ve got acquired good reminiscences of what occurred final 12 months however, by way of as a group, it isn’t one thing we have touched on quite a bit.
“We have clearly acquired a reasonably new teaching workers, enjoying the sport a bit otherwise to how we had been then.
“When it comes to how we have previewed it, it has been a little bit bit completely different and there is been a good change to the group that we had 12 months in the past, so it is a bit of a clear slate in that regard.”