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    END OF AN ERA

    Dec 09, 2019 5 minutes

    When the All Blacks gathered to collect their bronze medals at Tokyo Stadium after defeating Wales 40-17, there was quite definitely an overwhelming sense of it being the end of an era.

    Not only was Steve Hansen, a coach with 16 years association with the team leaving, so too were captain Kieran Read and other long servers such as Sonny Bill Williams, Ben Smith, Ryan Crotty and Matt Todd.

    Obviously, the bronze medal match was not where they had all wanted things to end. The dream was to end things at Yokohama Stadium the following night, crowned world champions for a third successive time.

    This was a team that had set itself big goals during Hansen's tenure and typically the higher they reached, the better they played.

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