As the clamour for a change of coach in New Zealand intensifies, it is perhaps pertinent to cast the mind back to about this time in 2021, for it is pertinent.

Before the All Blacks played their final two Tests of the 2021 Rugby Championship against SA, they were riding the crest of a wave. They’d lost to Argentina in what became the Tri-Nations because of the absence of the Springboks in the first Covid-19 season of 2020, but subsequent to that they had swept past all comers and had great momentum...

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