There's an arrogance about the All Blacks that is well-earned

Wayne Smith’s choice of reading material, when the All Blacks landed in Ireland back in 2005, was instructive.

Alan English’s ‘Stand Up and Fight’ had only appeared on the bookshelves earlier that year and the New Zealand assistant coach’s immersion in its pages was proof that Munster’s defeat of New Zealand, at Thomond Park in 1978, held a fascination that was in no way limited to the one province in Ireland.