Accolades for this All Black squad have been rising as regularly as house prices in Auckland. These All Blacks are outstanding and rank with previous groups who built and sustained legacies for the nation's rugby players to try to emulate. Let's mix it up a bit and mesh the current squad with those All Blacks of the late 1960s and the late 1980s who brought imposing players and sequences of international success. Related Content All Blacks: Hansen's squad has shades of '67 greats Malakai Fekitoa clambers up coconut tree for post-training drink All Blacks test tickets at more than three-times the priceWho would be captain? Dane Coles is monstering those standards, as did Fitzpatrick and in the late 1960s, Bruce McLeod, who was a hard-charging mobile athlete.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 20, 2016 15:56 UTC