Ailing Rugby Championship shows Test game needs health check | Paul Rees

All Blacks’ success cannot mask the fact that, as players have moved to big-money northern hemisphere club deals, so international standards have fallenNew Zealand won the Rugby Championship last weekend. Again. They did so with one-third of their matches still to be played. Again. The last time the All Blacks failed to win the title in a non-World Cup year was 2009 when South Africa were on the high of a successful Lions series.Since then, and excluding 2011 and 2015 when New Zealand mixed and matched with the World Cup in mind, they have lost one match in six campaigns, to a long-range penal…