The one big World Cup danger for the All Blacks as they get to grips with the cancelled Italy game is how they get Brodie Retallick back up to speed following his return from a dislocated shoulder because his next match will be a quarter-final.
It is a trap they fell into at the end of last year after the man generally agreed to be the best lock in the world couldn't back up his superb performance against England at Twickenham the next week against Ireland in Dublin.
His full range of abilities were on display in a very tight test in south west London after he made a return off the bench against Japan in Tokyo in his previous match but it turned out he was under-done conditioning wise and he couldn't find the same levels at Aviva Stadium as the All Blacks lost to the Irish for the second time in two years.
Retallick would have been penciled in for 60 minutes or so against Italy in Toyota Stadium on Saturday and now the All Blacks have to find another way to replicate that intensity, but, in an interview with the Herald, coach Steve Hansen said it was under control.