When New Zealand is the best rugby league team in the world – in other words, whenever they can beat Australia – the song usually remains the same.
Great teams can match the Kangaroos but you need great players to really crack them open. Stacey Jones was great at it in his day and so were Benji Marshall and Shaun Johnson.
The styles may have differed, but the one thing each of the halfbacks had in common was an unaccountable brilliance.
