Anyone and everyone associated with rugby is throwing up reasons for the All Blacks’ loss of invincibility; from a new coach, to losing key players and the vulnerability of Super Rugby. Yes, they are all factors to the All Blacks still finding their feet, but what really hit me in the second Test was that they seemed to have lost the ability to control what was happening in-game.
With rugby league growing in popularity and power, union bosses are fighting another war with a rival code.
Brooke was confident his All Blacks teams of '95, '96 and '97 could take Ian Fosters squad, but admitted another era would challenge them.
This is no unprecedented times for the All Blacks - but the circumstances aren't entirely the same as in the past.
Ma'a Nonu and Conrad Smith have been named as the greatest All Blacks midfielders of all-time by a panel of rugby experts and the Kiwi public.
Aaron Smith and Dan Carter have been named as the greatest All Blacks halfback and first-five of all-time by a panel of rugby experts and the Kiwi public.
Richie McCaw, Sir Michael Jones and Zinzan Brooke have been named as the greatest All Blacks loose forwards of all-time by a panel of rugby experts and the Kiwi public.
Which players would make an all-time All Blacks XV? That's the question fans will get to answer as a panel Kiwi experts aim to find the best All Blacks team ever.
Kieran Read, perhaps the greatest No 8 of the modern era, has finally hung up his boots.
Zinzan Brooke has no trouble with Steve Hansen picking an injured Brodie Retallick, claiming the second row's eventual comeback can be as influential as Richard Hill's return with England in 2003.