KEY POINTS:
Dan Carter is rated by his peers and predecessors as the best in the business, and he has accumulated the statistics to match.
In football parlance, Carter is New Zealand's brand equivalent of David Beckham coupled with the playing genius of Cristiano Ronaldo which is why his rare form slump in the countdown to France 2007 has become a national concern.
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