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| | The Observer | Sport | Super 12 at root of All Blacks' success |
 | | As a result, New Zealand started to work on forward power again and an indication of how far the have some is the fact that the forwards of 2003 were pushing 2,645lb on the scrum machine; the present squad push 4,400lb. |
 | | After Tana Umaga's peach of a pass to Sitiveni Sivivatu in the first Test, one of the people I was watching the match with said: 'He does that all the time for the Hurricanes.' It was intriguing, too, that Super 12 was mentioned more than once in the interviews after the second Test. |
 | | The key lessons that have been learnt from Super 12 are the value of pace and the virtues of trying the unexpected - these qualities, executed with precision and power, were what made the All Blacks able to take their chances so clinically in the Test series. |
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