Misfiring All Blacks into last eight, D-Day for England


  • Rugby
  • Saturday, 03 Oct 2015

Rugby Union - New Zealand v Georgia - IRB Rugby World Cup 2015 Pool C - Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales - 2/10/15 New Zealand's Malakai Fekitoa scores their seventh try Action Images via Reuters / Paul Childs Livepic

LONDON (Reuters) - Will the real Rugby World Cup holders please stand up? Three games, three wins and a quarter-final place secured but New Zealand are still searching for fluency.

The misfiring All Blacks won an arm wrestle with Georgia on Friday, scoring seven tries in a 43-10 victory in Cardiff but making a slew of uncharacteristic handling errors in a scrappy and sloppy display.

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