There has been a lot of talk that Saturday's match was a classic test: a tight, gripping antidote to Super Rugby.

Choice, we heard, was going to be England's problem for the opening test. Cup ties and injury meant they did not have enough quality players to stay with the All Blacks.

Jerome Kaino solved a problem for the All Blacks in Auckland and now, following a huge performance at Eden Park, he's created a problem for later in the series.

For All Black try scorer Conrad Smith, that finish against England is what test rugby is all about.

The All Blacks have arrived in Dunedin backing themselves to find the required improvement after suffering a big scare in the first test against England.

This was England but not as we knew them. This was England as they were two years ago in their first duel against the ABs under coach Stuart Lancaster's command.

The All Blacks found themselves in a big hole in this test, one which they climbed out of with only three minutes remaining.

As a former player, pundit and keen observer of England's rugby fortunes, Jamie Salmon has relished the team's changing attitude and style.

When England made their first tour of New Zealand in 1963, they were the Five Nations champions but little was known about their squad.

If some of the rhetoric from backs coach Andy Farrell seeps into the England psyche and they play with his authority, then tonight's test will pack some wallop.

Old Colstonians RFC is an amateur rugby club based in Bristol, in the southwest of England, a club without a Wikipedia page and the owners of a Twitter account boasting a modest 207 followers.

Having to rule out Julian Savea, one of the most destructive wings in the game, is a blow for the All Blacks - but the addition of Cory Jane is hardly a weakness.

New Zealand were overwhelmed by a South African set-piece clinic to heap pressure on themselves at the World Junior Championships.

England assistant coach Andy Farrell says 'belief comes with hardwork, they've done the hardwork. It's about playing the game in the moment and not the occassion. England will play the All Blacks in the first of three tests at Eden Park.

Head coach Stuart Lancaster has named his team to play the All Blacks in test one of three. With the arrival of the last few players he is happy with his selected team and knows it will be a huge task especially playing at Eden Park.

Gloucester's Freddie Burns will start in the 10 jersey for England against the All Blacks on Saturday night in just his fourth test match.

If England's goal was for an anonymous build-up to the first test on Saturday, it appears to have been a success.

It has taken the better part of three years, but Jerome Kaino will this Saturday give an expectant public the encore they wanted to see.

You expect a certain amount of whinging from England. Usually they are packaged with a warning about the level of complaints around them.

By all accounts he is a decent fellow and according to the team handbook emulated Williams Webb Ellis as a 7-year-old when he "picked up a rugby ball and has never really looked back".

As those who have run into him know, there is very little give in Ma'a Nonu which is why he has hinted at rather than outright declared his intention to pop England's Manu Tuilagi in his back pocket this Saturday.

England captain Chris Robshaw is extremely proud of the squad they have, 'this is the place and this is the team you want to test yourself against'. This is the game and the place they'll find out what they're all about.

England centre Jonny May has nothing but respect for the All Blacks, 'they're the best team in the world, they have been throughout my life'. Lock, Joe Launchbery is looking forward to be put to the test against the best in the world.

Kieran Read and Sam Cane have both been ruled out of the first All Blacks test against England, while Julian Savea is in doubt.

England assistant coach Graham Rowntree knows first hand what it's like to win against the All Blacks, he says 'it's all about self belief at the end of the day 'we have enough on our plate without being in awe of the All Blacks'.

It was a case of lock up your daughters and mini-bars way more than it was lock up your defence on England's last few visits to New Zealand but that might not be the case this time around.