In the New Zealand Herald, Peter Bills asks whether the All Blacks should perhaps go easier on each other ahead of the World Cup.
"In the cafes of Toulouse, the pubs of Gloucester and the Indian restaurants of Leicester, they watched with increasing amazement. The rugby men of the Northern Hemisphere have one question in their minds.
Are New Zealand's top rugby players bashing each other to pulp just in time for the World Cup?
It is normally the British and French players who arrive at a World Cup in pieces. They play so much rugby in the Northern Hemisphere we're used to seeing guys who can hardly raise a gallop failing to measure up come World Cup time."