New Zealand beat Georgia to reach World Cup quarter-finals

It may have been the first meeting between the countries but Georgia did not have New Zealand on their minds when they selected their side for what was never going to be a contest of equals. They made 10 changes from the side that had started their first two matches and it may have been as well for the holders who started and finished with a flourish but were surprisingly slipshod in between.Two tries at the end, including Julian Savea’s third, did not mask the errors that had happened throughout and of greatest concern will be a scrum that spent the game going backwards. The All Blacks have i…