NZ Rugby World - 2019-04-01

• EDITOR’S LETTER
• It emerged that while no one was looking World Rugby tried to revamp the internatio­nal game by selling a new competitio­n that was set up for only the commercial­ly elite.
• World Cup years often see strange things happen in Super Rugby with certain key players and well resourced teams not performing well. But usually it is all part of the All Blacks plan to manage their players to peak at the right time.
• The All Blacks have nailed down most of their key combinatio­ns since the last World Cup. But there is one area of the team they haven’t been able to get right since 2015.
• Inevitably there will be a bit of cleanout of personnel after the World Cup so what might the next generation of All Blacks look like?
• Our Top 10 looks at the unbelievab­le ways players have managed to get themselves into trouble with the judiciary.
• Depending on who you listen to it’s either business as usual or NZ is in the midst of an exodus. We open the bonnet on the player transfer market.
• In 2011 Finland were the worst rugby team in the world. Eight years on and the picture is entirely different.
• Elton Jantjies didn’t have a great 2018 and that may have been because he was exhausted.
• A review into schools rugby earlier this year revealed some worrying findings.
• Dwindling crowds and a lack of interest are killing the Mitre 10 Cup. So what can done to save it?
• As Julian Savea is discoverin­g, not all overseas contracts work out well for New Zealand’s players.
• Kevin Roberts is confident that many of the things that needed to happen in the world game 20 years ago have indeed happened.
• Sky’s Tony Johnson does not have much faith World Rugby will find find a way to get everyone to agree on its World League proposal.
• Richard Bath details that the Northern Hemisphere are just as much in need of cash as the South.
• Wynne Gray wonders why the Pacific Islands can never be granted a break.
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