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Mark Richardson: Genuine motives ruined by approach
Through all the animosity over the Ross Taylor issue, has anybody stepped back and actually thought that the right decision has been made?
Through all the animosity over the Ross Taylor issue, has anybody stepped back and actually thought that the right decision has been made?
Taylor is a good man and a very good player. He doesn't deserve this humiliation, writes Dylan Cleaver. "Wrong-headed decisions have become as much a part of everyday life at NZC as cups of tea and spreadsheets."
Early days but if England can reproduce Sunday's Twickenham performance on a regular basis they will be a serious threat at the next World Cup, writes Gregor Paul.
Guarantee Sonny Bill Williams an Olympic spot and stick a boxing ring at NZRU headquarters, writes Chris Rattue, if that's what it takes to lure the big man back.
Wynne Gray: For the first time this season the All Blacks felt the cold fear of failure.
The poor old International Rugby Board - they just can't get anything right at the moment.
When Mike King used Twitter to help find a high-profile sports star to promote the marriage equality bill, you could almost see the tumbleweed roll by.
Discipline, or lack of, has become a prevailing theme throughout the autumn tests and of all the statistics to emerge in the past few weeks, writes Gregor Paul.
All sorts of damning praise is leaching from the British media.
There is only one position on Andrew Hore's hit on a Welsh player: it must be condemned, by All Blacks and all, writes Chris Rattue.
When the kids woke up at 2.30pm all fresh and shiny, I made them sit down and watch a master batsman at the top of his game, writes Jeremy Wells.
Andrew Hore just had to be red-carded in Cardiff, thus giving Wales a royal chance of beating the All Blacks for the first time in nearly 60 years.
Cameron contest is not worthy of a world title fight writes Chris Rattue.
"Five successive test losses; is it time to throw the hands up and acknowledge New Zealand's current players simply aren't much chop?", writes David Leggat.
Tracey Nelson crunches the numbers from the All Blacks' 42-10 win over Italy and finds Kieran Read was the top ball carrier.
The Wellington wind blows in yet another in a long list of talented and enterprising players - Cory Jane.
So windsurfing has won a reprieve and will be on the 2016 Rio Olympic sailing programme, while kiteboarding is left to wonder what they did wrong, writes David Leggat.
Jumble up the team, slap 50 points past Scotland and work on your next strategy.