Bledisloe a triumph for mental toughness

Fairfax Media

Test matches are won by a combination of passion, skill and taking chances. Scoring the All Blacks and Wallabies on these yardsticks, passion goes to the Wallabies, skill is shared and in taking chances the All Blacks are the runaway winners.
All Blacks win in Brisbane
ABs press conference

Springbok pride looms to doom

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It is hard to know which is less likely - the Springboks losing three in a row at home or the Wallabies winning two in a row away from home. Surely the Wallabies cannot win tonight.

Solid rebuild but where's the killer punch?

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It has been perfectly clear what the All Blacks have set out to do in the first three matches of the 2008 southern hemisphere test match season.
ABs too good
Finishing class of ABs

Players key to lifting suspended sentence

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New Zealand rugby has been and probably still is in a strange place. Public support inhabits a kind of twilight zone somewhere between guilty rejection and grudging support. Few can bring themselves to outright hostility but even fewer are prepared to give unconditional support.