Heroics and Heartbreak: Twelve Months With the All Blacks

The 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign is shaping up to be the most intriguing World Cup campaign ever for the All Blacks, because they're going for their third title in a row. It will cap a decade of dominance for the team, who broke their 24-year drought in 2011 and then breezed through to win the 2015 edition.

This year will be a much tougher challenge, though.

The signs are there that most of the other test playing nations have gained some serious ground on the All Blacks in the last couple ...