Players hold key to lifting rugby's suspended sentence
By DAVID KIRK - Fairfax Media | Monday, 16 June 2008


New Zealand rugby has been and probably still is in a strange place.

Public support inhabits a kind of twilight zone somewhere between guilty rejection and grudging support. Few can bring themselves to outright hostility but even fewer are prepared to give unconditional support. The All Blacks, it seems, are on parole. Or more accurately, they have a suspended sentence.

Others might argue that the suspended sentence will last until the end of the Henry era.

A leading rugby writer for a daily newspaper was moved to state in print recently that he loathes Graham Henry and that while he remains the coach of the All Blacks ......

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