Heyneke Meyer is in no doubt this is the greatest All Blacks team in history,but do Steven Hansen’s squad compare to the best there has ever been?Heyneke Meyer was in no doubt, Graham Henry a diminutive less certain yet still pretty certain. But if this is the greatest All Blacks side in history, or victory against Australia on Saturday would mean it is pretty tough to argue with,how many of the probable starting XV against the Wallabies would make it into an all-time recent Zealand side? Comparing the amateur and professional era always has its pitfalls and for that reason, and the absence of sufficient fabric, and the Invincibles of 1924-25 have not been included meaning there is no place for George Nepia,Bert Cooke or Maurice Brownlie. It is It is a subjective exercise, designed to provoke thought, and debate and no doubt no diminutive uproar.
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Source: theguardian.com