Tired and Emotional All Blacks downed 24 - 26 in three men and a dog watch thriller

After witnessing the mighty ABs hit the 'aimless wandering' button and take an injection of 'this game is already won', our illustrious leader had this to say:


"I thought they played some brilliant football early on and we were just hanging onto their coat-tails," said Graham Henry. "We pulled it back, got some ascendancy but we didn't finish the last 10 minutes well."

Has Henry had the ABs training with this ball?

Does Henry know we are playing rugby not football? Is this where things went wrong?

Doubtful. I bet any half decent football player would have been able to make touch in the dying seconds of the game.  Poor substitutions Mr Henry - Toeava and Donald continue to be non-international class.

And what happened to the crowd? What's the point of travelling the world to 'spread the game' if bugger all people can be bothered turning up to be spread on?

I hate to say it but are we witnessing a repeat of the same thing that happened last RWC? Domination in the year leading up to it and then a gradual loss of form as other teams time their peak performance to perfection. Too many poor decisions and bad handling yesterday for my liking. It reeks of an AB team taking it easy.