Habits are difficult to change, and
few groups in game as of now have a winning propensity as unshakeable as the
All Blacks. With 33 wins and a solitary misfortune in 36 games in all rivalries
since asserting the World Cup title in 2011, the all-vanquishing All Blacks are
a match far from going three straight seasons victorious in the tiring southern
half of the World Rugby Championship.
In the unforgiving universe of Wolrd
rugby, New Zealand has been just about incredible since winning its second Rugby
World Cup, just going down in England on an end-of-year visit in December 2012,
and attracting twice Australia.
"Conviction is an entertaining
thing. The more you win it turns into a propensity, and it is a propensity with
them," veteran South African forward and 2007 Rugby World Cup Victor Matfield
said.
Matfield and South Africa are the
most recent to test the All Blacks' propensity in Sunday's last round of the South
Africa Rugby Championship, when the New Zealanders can top a third progressive
title with a seventeenth win in 18 competition games in excess of three years.
Coach Steve Hansen said, In spite of
the fact that the title is securely tucked away for an alternate year after
triumph in Argentina, the All Blacks "will be prodded on by a massive
measure of individual and group pride" in South Africa.
