Graham Henry's All Blacks appear to have landed on the right blend of ferocity and flair.

In a week when not a lot has surprised All Blacks captain Tana Umaga, he took a double take at one journalist's question.
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1959, Carisbrook. Clear skies, soft track... and as a potential kicking duel looms tomorrow night between Jonny Wilkinson and Dan Carter, ex-All Black first-five Ross Brown had a ball’s eye view of what remains one of the greatest goal-kicking displays in rugby history.
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Three days out from the first Test in Christchurch, British & Irish Lions midweek coach Gareth Jenkins is telling his men not to lose sight of the bigger picture.
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Southland lad Paul Henderson began his first class career - one that would eventually span 220 matches -against the British & Irish Lions as a teenager back in 1983. But memories of that first 80 minutes have never left him.
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Anyone wondering how the Lions will approach the first Test against the All Blacks could have tuned out after 19 seconds of the mauling of Wellington.
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Teenage impetuousness and the kind of tropical conditions Athletic Park was renowned for proved too tempting a combination for Wellingtonian Rod Camp when the Lions visited there in 1971.
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Ordinarily, players head to physio after a match. Yet shortly before their team-mates took on Taranaki last night, non-playing members of the British & Irish Lions squad made New Plymouth’s Barrett street Hospital an exception to that rule.
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