England beat the All Blacks: New Zealand media reaction England were as relentless as the All Blacks were messy. If the team wasn't affected by illness it was some message from England. The formula to counter the All Blacks has always been apparent. Combat them up front, rough them up and disrupt their possession and those stutters will have a domino effect through the side. Defeat may be the making of this team Gregor Paul, The New Zealand Herald It's not easy to see it now, or to even believe it, but defeat at Twickenham may indeed be the making of this All Black side. As pained as the All Blacks were by their performance and as hurt as they were to trudge off to a record defeat, in time they may come to appreciate the value of that experience. Come 2015, it's likely, as the World Cup will be in London, the All Blacks will still be talking about this game. It will be a reminder, particularly to the younger players, that preparation really can't suffer; that the talk during the week of respect and opponents being more dangerous than they appear is absolutely for real. In the short term, there will be some relief in the All Black camp that the world has seen they are fallible. The references to them being one of the greatest sides ever to play was starting to irk the management. The All Blacks have enjoyed an outstanding year but the last act of the season is easier to remember than the first. The better team won Justin Marshall, Dominion Post Who saw this coming? Not me, not anyone I talked to in London this week and certainly not the All Blacks. England didn't just ambush the No 1 side in the game at Twickenham yesterday, they ambushed the rugby world. So how did they knock over the best in the business by a record 17-point margin, and inflict the first defeat of the calendar year on Richie McCaw's men? Well, they played a game that the All Blacks weren't expecting and they did it so damn well that the world champions simply did not have any answers. I don't buy the tiredness theory, and certainly not the illness one. The All Blacks just got caught out, plain and simple. The All Blacks never adjusted to England's approach. They conceded the advantage line, conceded the physicality contest, and never got up to speed with what their hosts were doing. There was a heck of a lot of test caps out there but they couldn't bring the team together enough. For once the All Blacks couldn't regenerate; couldn't reinvigorate. Let's face it, the All Blacks have been dishing out lessons for 20 games in a row. Yesterday was their turn to be the pupils, and they have to suck it up. They vowed afterwards to rise again, and I've got no doubt they will. All Black pay the price for going too well too often Glenn McLean, Taranaki Daily News The add-on game of the tour should have been played at the start, not the end. England were warming up as the All Blacks were winding down.The tour schedule was arse about face. Take nothing away from England, they played a superbly accurate game against an All Blacks side that should feel embarrassed with their collective effort. The All Blacks could easily pull out a number of excuses for being so limp - the stomach virus that swept through the squad, the distraction of Andrew Hore's disciplinary hearing, the doubt over whether Daniel Carter and Keven Mealamu would play and the "last game of the season syndrome" were all contributing factors for such a poor effort. However, the problems that have surfaced in several mediocre performances in 2012 came together collectively to hurt the world champions. It is frightening just how insipid the All Blacks are when Carter, Conrad Smith and Read are all off their game. Almost as frightening is the continued lack of a plan B when things are not going right and the All Blacks' inability to create space and revert to trying to crash over the top of their opposition. England did to the All Blacks what the All Blacks have done to numerous sides this year, and good luck to them. Good luck to them because if they can find some consistency from such a young group then Swing Low Sweet Chariot will be heard louder and louder at Twickenham. All Blacks out-muscled, out-thought by England Toby Robson, Dominion Post Bad enough being outplayed by the English backs, but the aftermath of this 38-21 loss will be equally as difficult to digest for the All Blacks as they disassemble today. Dan Carter has urged his teammates not to move on too quickly. In fact, the first five-eighth said they should force themselves to examine what went wrong. There's little doubt the All Blacks fell into the trap of believing things would happen and perhaps they were affected by the English press, who spent last week asking if they were the greatest side ever to play rugby. Today, they will be portraying Stuart Lancaster's team as the mighty dragon slayers and at the post-match press conference there was already talk of winning the 2015 World Cup. Rising star Tuilagi outshines All Blacks Patrick McKendry, Otago Daily Times The first many New Zealanders knew of the 21-year-old was in last year's World Cup. The tournament had an unhappy ending for him - he was fined by team management for jumping from a ferry into the Waitemata Harbour after a day out on Waiheke Island - but he was one of the few among the English who emerged from the World Cup with their on-field reputations enhanced. "He brought new meaning to the word "direct" - both on offence and defence - and was a rare jewel for England; he was a back wearing white worth watching. Such was his dominance, he outshone two of the men tasked with marking him - Dan Carter and Ma'a Nonu - and in fact made the pair, both world-class players, look a little ordinary at times.