All Blacks thrash Australia 54-34 in Rugby Championship opener

Well played, All Blacks. I dont watch much union, but their performance in the first half was as good as you will ever see on a rugby pitch. Theyll win by 50 plus in their home game.

As for the Wallabies, they really have become our national laughing stock in Australia. Its probably too late to save the game in Australia - it has fallen to almost amateurish levels, and well behind the other 3 football codes - but they really need to stop the policy of just recruiting/"nationalising" pacific islander mercenary players for the national team and hoping for the best, and get back to grass-roots. I mean, it looked like a second-rate Pacific Islands 15 taking on the ABs last night!