EDITORIAL: The All Blacks have embraced vulnerability. We should too.
Tough-as-nails forward Ardie Savea talks about it on his podcasts. In interviews with team-mates, he addresses the challenges for modern, professional athletes; also, the time away from family, the sacrifices made to get to the top, the demons that lurk in individual and collective failure.
It hasn’t always been like this.
In the days before streaming and podcasts, when images arrived in black and white and our heroes smashed across the screen in ghostly greys, All Blacks scored tries, stood up and ran back to halfway with barely a wink of approval for and from team-mates.
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New Zealand would more than likely win, but wives and partners were nervous nonetheless.
So taciturn was the…
