All Blacks coach Steve Hansen and assistant Ian Foster have without doubt established a desirable, envious and sought-after culture of attainment.
The ABs must, at times, paint a picture, albeit not a perfect one, of rugby utopia and for that the architects deserve plaudits.
But a closer look of the DNA will suggest otherwise because the Shag and Fozz laboratory is still in the throes of shaking test tubes over Bunsen burner flames in the quest for the right formula.
That process is intriguing and to many be a source of consternation.
Should Ben Smith be playing fullback?
For the record, I sang that anthem well before the international season kicked in last year.
Are Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith the invincible midfield pairing some have been making them out to be for the past couple of years?
Mmm ... the match against the Springboks in the high veldt a fortnight ago suggested otherwise.
Is Julian Savea the best winger for the job at the business end of the World Cup?
I reiterate, Savea hasn't scored a try against the Boks and he was conspicuous in his absence from the Rugby Championship test in Johannesburg.
A question mark still hangs over his mental fortitude in the face of Waisake Naholo's presence in the Super Rugby final so a game in Sydney will hardly be an affirmation because he'll remain an experiment until the ABs' and Boks' paths cross again.
Conversely, Ben Smith made tries look easy against an imposing South Africa and yet he remains grossly under-utilised in a peripheral position on the wing where his ability to step off either foot on doormat spaces makes him a game changer.
How is it going with putting up the storm shutters against the lineout maul close to the goalline, not to mention scrummaging?
You see, that's where the building blocks of that DNA, as delirious ABs fans must imagine, will click into place for that winning edge come the World Cup.
In keeping with the biological analogy, the genetic beads on the necklace of the ABs' X and Y chromosomes are indubitably masking some inherent flaws.
The beauty about these games is that they have become opportune Petri dishes for some in-house genetic modification.
Putting the best XV and bench out now is tantamount to shooting oneself in the foot.
It's simply time to shut shop to bake pies for the national awards.
Tonight's clash in Sydney and the reload a week later in Auckland will relegate the Bledisloe Cup to a trinket, whatever the sentimentalism out there.
Consequently, it'll add to the collective if captain Richie McCaw and his men don't pull any more tricks out of their bag.
In fact, a loss will parallel a fire or earthquake drill of sorts with the delegated emergency wardens going through the mock motions.
The X-factor plays are what will determine the winning of the Rugby World Cup on the foundation of performing the basics with religious fervour.
For that reason the "mad scientists" in black must carry on researching their "lab rats" to find hybrid specimen.
It goes without saying Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is doing the same.
It was never a case of if but when Cheika was going to throw Michael Hooper and David Pocock into his starting XV before the World Cup.
Tonight the Wallabies, All Blacks, Springboks and the northern hemisphere cup prospects will be much wiser for the outing in Sydney.
