New Zealand’s Steve Hansen warns Wales not to hope for 2007-style lapse

Head coach says All Blacks have learned from predecessors’ embarrassing defeat to France in Cardiff seven years ago when they made a quarter-final exit from the World CupIt was the worst of times but it inspired the best of times. When New Zealand lost to France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup at the Millennium Stadium in 2007 and made their earliest exit from the tournament, a country slumped into stunned disbelief. “We were a bunch of boof-heads, a dumb rugby nation,” one commentator observed.The All Blacks return to the Millennium Stadium on Saturday to face Wales and they will be ba…