Stop all this "hocus, pocus" about losing to the Wallabies in Brisbane in 2011 being a "sign" that last Saturday night's loss in Sydney is a good omen.
Whatever, plainly it means diddly-squat, but that's just a side bar.
The real issue is the quality of opposition the All Blacks will face at the 2015 World Cup, compared to 2011.
If we go back four years, the Springboks, the Wallabies and England sent their worst teams ever to a Rugby World Cup. They were ordinary.
As it turns out the French were pretty good when it counted, while in the final wash up the Welsh weren't the worst.
Bring it forward four years and the calibre of opposition in 2015 is a completely different kettle of fish, Caitlyn and Bruce kind of different.
France will always rise to the occasion and if we don't meet them in the quarter-final, we'll face an Irish side, which under Joe Schmidt, have become world class and the dominant force in the Northern Hemisphere.
England, at home, lured by Range Rovers for life and cake tins of tax free euro's will be tough as teak. And there's no denying the Wallabies and Boks have improved immensely post Robbie Deans and Peter de Villiers.
Which brings me to this other conspiracy theory - that the All Blacks were foxing in Sydney.
Well, I remember the same being said when we played Australia before the 2003 World Cup at Eden Park. Hell, we even won that night, even if we were foxing. But it counted for nothing when we were caught with our pants down in the World Cup semi-final a couple of months later.
I'm quietly confident Steve Hansen and co are smarter than that. Reality is we got belted in Sydney by a much better team... on the night. Saturday at Eden park is another night.
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