the junior all blacks are not an age grade side, but are the second national team behind the all blacks. they were formerly known as new zealand a, but the name was changed for marketing purposes. they competed in the pacific nations cup competition alongside australia a, fiji, japan, samoa and tonga. they won the inaugural irb pacific 5 nations competition in 2006. in 2007 australia a joined with the competition, changing its name to pacific nations cup. the junior all blacks repeated their 2006 success in 2007 winning the competition with victories in all five of their matches including with a 50−0 thumping of their australian counterparts at carisbrook dunedin. the new zealand māori played in the 2008 pacific nations cup. no new zealand team has played in pacific nations cup since then.