19 Nov 2009

Tweeting All Blacks let off by coach

3:11 pm on 19 November 2009

All Blacks Neemia Tialata and Corey Jane will not face punishment for revealing on a social networking site that they had been rested for Sunday morning's All Blacks test against England at Twickenham.

Twenty-four hours before the team was named, Tialata and Jane revealed on Twitter that they wouldn't be playing.

Coach Graham Henry says he's not too concerned, but will give them a quiet reminder.

"I had to find out what bloody Twitter was," he said. "I thought it was a new guy playing five-eighth for England. But apparently not."

"We announced the team on Monday to the guys, and they probably thought it was going to be announced to the media during that day," he told a media conference.

There are wholesale changes from last week's lineup against Italy, with only two of the starting fifteen retained, winger Sitiveni Sivivatu and lock Tom Donnelly.

The run on 15 is: Mils Muliaina, Zac Guildford, Conrad Smith, Ma'a Nonu, Sitiveni Sivivatu, Daniel Carter, Jimmy Cowan, Kieran Read, Richie McCaw, Adam Thomson, Tom Donnelly, Brad Thorn, Owen Franks, Andrew Hore and Tony Woodcock.

Hooker Corey Flynn has been bracketed with Aled de Malmanche, but Graham Henry says it is unlikely that Flynn will be available.