Video / All BlacksOPINION:It's unlikely that the All Blacks will feel much love while they are in Australia for the next seven weeks. Perth and Queensland should, given the now almost 30-year partnership between Rugby Australia and New Zealand Rugby, feel like a home away from home for the All Blacks. This may not strike anyone as being something out of the ordinary as New Zealand's Sanzaar marriage with Australia has always been stormy. Rarely, since 1996 and the onset of professionalism and their formal alliance as Super Rugby and Rugby Championship partners, have they lived in domestic bliss. NZR were indeed guilty of treating Rugby Australia with incredible disdain last year when they blew up Super Rugby as we knew it.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 29, 2021 03:56 UTC