Remember the elderly joke about the flight from Australia to New Zealand? “There’s a time difference between the two countries,” the captain tells his passengers as he prepares to touch down in Auckland. “Please put your watches back 50 years.”
As events in All Black territory over the last few days confirm, there’s many a true word spoken in jest. Three decades after England’s newly professionalised clubs started lobbing political hand grenades in the general direction of Twickenham and its battalion of “old farts”, the spirit of insurgency has finally arrived in the furthest-flung corner o...