No one grabbed ownership of tournament

STRANGE in a way that what has been a fantastic tournament has produced a paucity of real individual star quality.

Sure the likes of Jamie Roberts, David Pocock, Kurtley Beale, Kahn Fotuali’i and Mike Phillips have been outstanding but nobody has grabbed ownership of this tournament in the manner Jonah Lomu dominated the 1995 event.

Dan Carter had the ability to set it alight but sadly his campaign ended before he got out of third gear.

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