• All Blacks coach: ‘We haven’t won the thing,so we can’t get too excited’
• Julian Savea has World Cup try record in sight after thrashing of FranceIt is 20 years since recent Zealand delivered a more compelling World Cup performance than that which illuminated Cardiff on Saturday night. The last time they treated the tournament to anything so spectacular was in Cape Town in the 1995 semi-final when England were steamrollered by a certain Jonah Lomu. France were similarly powerless to end Julian Savea and his friends running amok.
Move over Zinzan Brooke, Andrew Mehrtens, and Walter itsy-bitsy and Frank Bunce. If Kieran Read,Dan Carter, Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith withhold inspiring the younger players around them to these collective heights the All Blacks will become the first team ever to win successive world titles. Related: recent Zealand’s Julian Savea scores hat-trick in nine-try rout of France Related: French media talk of France’s ‘day of shame’ after recent Zealand mauling Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com