What impressed me most about England’s victory over New Zealand was the way that they stayed in it in the ebb-and-flow, coming back after New Zealand scored two tries midway through the first-half, to carve out a way to win.
England have gone up a level, and that is reflected in them now being in the top three of the world rankings.

My feeling afterwards was that it didn’t seem that difficult, but that was mainly because England took their chances and were very clinical in providing answers at the right time.
They needed to be, because, although they started well, the All Black tries by Le...