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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty Ape" data-source="post: 769910" data-attributes="member: 73216"><p>Henry 2004-2011. RC 5/8, Bledisloe 8/8, World Cup 1/2. Tests P/W/L = 103/88/15 (85.4% won, 14.6% lost).</p><p>Hansen 2012-2015. RC 3/4. Bledisloe 4/4. World Cup 1/1. Tests P/W/L = 54/49/2 (90.7% won, 5.6% lost).</p><p></p><p>I hear your point that the All Black "machine" is more than any cog, and you are right. That machine has been built and added to and tweaked for decades. That hasn't always meant World Cup success though, has it? And if Hansen is only a cog in the machine then wasn't Henry also only a cog in the machine? Wasn't Hansen also a cog in the machine when Henry was there? You seem to be giving Henry more credit than Hansen for some reason and I don't see why, because the machine under Hansen has gotten better. The current All Black machine, with Hansen being the central cog, is in the best condition it has ever been in. The question that should be asked by other countries is, why don't they have comparable machines? Why are they so reliant on special individuals to come in and drag their bucket of rusty bolts forward?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty Ape, post: 769910, member: 73216"] Henry 2004-2011. RC 5/8, Bledisloe 8/8, World Cup 1/2. Tests P/W/L = 103/88/15 (85.4% won, 14.6% lost). Hansen 2012-2015. RC 3/4. Bledisloe 4/4. World Cup 1/1. Tests P/W/L = 54/49/2 (90.7% won, 5.6% lost). I hear your point that the All Black "machine" is more than any cog, and you are right. That machine has been built and added to and tweaked for decades. That hasn't always meant World Cup success though, has it? And if Hansen is only a cog in the machine then wasn't Henry also only a cog in the machine? Wasn't Hansen also a cog in the machine when Henry was there? You seem to be giving Henry more credit than Hansen for some reason and I don't see why, because the machine under Hansen has gotten better. The current All Black machine, with Hansen being the central cog, is in the best condition it has ever been in. The question that should be asked by other countries is, why don't they have comparable machines? Why are they so reliant on special individuals to come in and drag their bucket of rusty bolts forward? [/QUOTE]
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