All Blacks still rule the world
By Reuters in London | China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-06 06:55
New Zealand and South Africa both went into the often-transitional post-Rugby World Cup year needing to fill some big boots.
While the All Blacks achieved it with barely a stutter, South Africa's 2016 turned into a nightmare.
On the other side of the world, England changed its coach but little else after a World Cup disaster and Eddie Jones transformed largely the same team into Europe's dominant force and the unquestioned challengers-in-waiting to New Zealand's world hegemony.
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