Getting some gushing praise about his legacy.
Well - I could take the view that his tenure as coach has coincided with a real and tangible loss of that "All Blacks Mystique".
We all know that for most of our formative years the AB's were on a pedestal and had a supernatural aura around them.
I suggest that with Hansen in charge the mystique has gone, they are not supermen with rugby knowledge far higher than ours.
Ireland can beat them, We can beat them (maybe we have a history of doing it once a decade).
The Lions drew.
We were a couple of disallowed trys away from taking them to the cleaners on the score board today. We did take them to the cleaners around the park anyway.
Mitigating circumstances - European rugby has been advancing and maybe the era of McCaw and Carter has not been seamlessly replaced.
They are still a top class, top draw rugby team, who will probably be world number 1 again after test matches resume after the RWC - But
The mystique has gone.
I didn't like Kevin Melalamu either - headbutting Lewis Moody on the floor from behind. Whitelock was removed today before he lost it.
