Context is everything. For the All Blacks, so long accustomed to being the best team on the planet, 2022 has been an unsatisfactory, even mediocre year.
But, as his own side prepare to face up to the New Zealanders at Murrayfield on Sunday, Scotland’s Chris Harris is well aware that one team’s mediocrity can constitute a level of excellence of which many others can only dream. And for that reason, the centre is convinced that he and his colleagues will have to be at the top of their game if they are to have a chance of recording a first victory over the visitors.
