All Blacks defeats are so rare they make it their duty to learn from them | Andy Bull

The days of New Zealand going into mourning after any defeat are over, they see it as a chance for their team to grow and to come back strongerTwenty-three All Blacks woke with the strangest feelings on Sunday morning. It was not their aching bodies, the sprains, strains, and bruises, stiff shoulders, throbbing legs, sore chests – all that was familiar enough. They expect nothing less after a Test. But another, more novel, sensation, altogether more painful. Defeat.Their captain, Kieran Read, is about to play his 100th game. In the past 99, he has experienced this 11 times. His mate Sam Whitel…