Yippee! It all came together on the night

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Great stuff! The All Blacks rose to the occasion and proved all their critics wrong and came out with a crunching win over the Wallabies in Wellington on Saturday night. Final score 33 points to 6.

The Wallablies coach, Dingo Deans, must be wondering what on earth can he do to beat the All Blacks. After all, his team did beat the South Africans only 2 weeks ago, while the All Blacks could only hang their head in shame after their defeat.

The All Blacks looked like the All Blacks of old that we know and love. They held onto the ball and showed dominance in every aspect of the game, even the lineouts! I know!

I think it came down to ball in hand. No more of these silly tactics of gaining possesion and then deciding to kick the ball in no particular direction hoping that a mistake from the opposition will come. That tactic did not work in all the Tri-Nations games and some one finally siad "hey, let's not kick the ball to the opposition, let's hold onto it so they can't get it!". Magic. There is a place in the game for precise kicking and that is what we had on show from Daniel Carter. And to show that the crowd knew a bad kick when they saw one, when Jimmy Cowan decided to kick a ball when they had men over, and the kick ended up in the Wallabies hands, a groan was heard from the crowd.

It was a positive way to end the Tri-Nations after a very ugly All Blacks season. Let's hope we have turned the corner and from now on, we will see a huge improvement from the men in black.