The inconvenient truth that threatens All Black's World Cup supremacy | Matt McIlraith

New Zealand’s disciplinary statistics through three Rugby World Cup cycles are revealingStatistics can tell us many things, and be interpreted in different ways, especially in the always-emotive context of international sport, but, over time, clear patterns do emerge, and solid conclusions can be drawn. That being the case, the biggest threat to the All Blacks at the upcoming Rugby World Cup could well be themselves. Or their discipline, to be exact.There was a school of thought, outside of New Zealand of course, that for a time viewed the All Blacks as a protected species. That the clear and …