The All Black elephant in the room

[scuzzaman]

I guess the nice thing about being a kiwi is we don't have to quibble about what constitutes dominance or superiority; we've got all the silverware and the rankings so from our perspective WE'RE* the measure of superiority.

If you have to finesse subtle re-definitions of what constitutes superiority then that's prima faci evidence that you're not superior.

When the whole rugby world is saying "How the hell do we compete with England?!?!" ... THEN England will be the best team in the world and you'll know it and I'll admit it here.

*I say "WE" although of course I was never good enough to play for the ABs and it's not "us" it's "them". Yes, I'm aware of how ridiculously borrowed that reflected glory is. At least I'm not Australian.

[p/d]

I guess England will be superior to them when they are worse than England ..by the looks of the AI’s they are making more of an effort to close that gap than England are

[scuzzaman]

I guess England will be superior to them when they are worse than England ..by the looks of the AI’s they are making more of an effort to close that gap than England are

Nice.

[Puja]

Good news everybody! It appears we are attempting to make the question a moot one, so we don't need to worry about it anymore.

Puja