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It will be back to business when the All Blacks regroup at their exclusive hotel in the south of France early today.
The squad have had a couple of days to rest around Aix-en-Provence, about half an hour's drive from Marseille, since arriving on Monday night on a flight from Edinburgh.
The break had been planned months ago and the timing was seen as right, with the bulk of pool play behind them and the cut-throat knockout stages starting next week.
But information on what the players have done with their time off is sketchy. Deliberately so. The idea was to give them peace and quiet.
What is known is that three of them, fullbacks Mils Muliaina and Leon MacDonald, along with lock Keith Robinson, have not gone far from the team's hotel base.
They have continued to receive treatment for injuries. Muliaina is getting over a small calf tear; MacDonald a haematoma on a thigh, and Robinson is on track for his first start at the cup against Romania in Toulouse on Saturday night after recovering from a calf strain picked up before the squad left New Zealand.
It is also understood about three-quarters of the group remained at the hotel and made day trips out into the countryside, with excursions to some of the many picturesque villages dotted round the region.
It was back to reality today however, with the team to play Romania due to be named tomorrow morning.
