DESPITE following up their World Cup quarter-final win over Ireland last year with another in Dublin a fortnight ago, the All Blacks face some tough questions over their 2024 record. Never mind the ten wins, what about the four defeats, as inflicted by France, Argentina and, most strikingly, by the indestructible Springboks on successive weekends?
Head coach Scott Robertson is expected to ask for a lifting of the ban excluding those All Blacks employed overseas from national selection. He almost certainly has one player in mind above the rest: fly half Richie Mo’unga whose cont...