The team that had supposedly forgotten how to lose suddenly remembered at the worst possible time yesterday and the first all-Six Nations global decider vanished like a mirage.

MA’A NONU fears embattled England are ready to “explode” as they attempt to salvage some pride from an autumn beset by problems.

Searchers found a New Zealand diver alive after he’d been missing at sea for three days.

England began preparations for their opening tour game against the New Zealand Maori expecting a ferocious clash of Test match intensity.

LEADING players Stephen Larkham and Matthew Burke have rejected New Zealand suggestions that the defending champion Wallabies were keeping their powder dry ahead of this year’s World Cup and “playing dead” through the Super 12 tournament.