The game of rugby can be complicated. A law book of near-on 150 pages, and a contest of possession which seems confusing and unclear most of the time.
But really the game, like the All Blacks showed on Saturday night, is as simple as hanging on to the ball and scoring tries.
And are the All Blacks the only side at this tournament which can score tries after four or five phases?
Some pundits laud tries after teams have put together 20-plus phases and find a gap in a tiring defence.
The All Black game plan does not include that. They did it in a slow ugly manner against Australia in Brisbane last month, and ultimately it did not work.
Getting the ball wide and finding space is their game at the moment. Always has been, and that is what the New Zealand public demands.
And it is light years ahead of what is being served up so far by most other teams in the tournament.
But, and it is a big but, can the All Blacks keep up this momentum and style of play for the next four weeks?
They have to really. It is their only option, and one hopes for the sake of serving up a spectacle to promote the game the All Blacks triumph.
What the side cannot now do is go away from that game plan.
As soon as Piri Weepu starts marshalling players and lining them up as battering rams he should be hauled off. That is not, and never will be, the New Zealand way.
Many people say the game at this level has to be won by defence and playing 10-man rugby.
But if the All Blacks think that - which they don't - it just plays into the hands of teams like the Springboks, the Irish and the English.
With the talent the All Blacks have got out wide, to borrow a local logo, they simply must spin it wide.
• Tough call
With his performance against France, Israel Dagg has certainly cemented his position in the All Black starting XV.
So the smart money must go on Mils Muliaina getting stuck on one short of racking up 100 tests.
He will play this week against the Canadians but it is hard to see him getting on to the bench for the following games.
Sentiment and wanting to honour an All Black great is all well and good but such is the talent and versatility in the All Black backline, it would be a call from left field that puts Muliaina over the century mark.
Sonny Bill Williams certainly looks the goods on the wing although his defence has never come under any examination yet.
Along with Muliaina stuck on 99, Highlander Jimmy Cowan is sitting on 49 tests but he should crack the half-century in Wellington this Sunday.
• Questions
1 So they apparently got the transport right in Auckland on Saturday night. But when 10,000 of the crowd walk to the ground, how hard can it be? And why did they walk? Because they didn't trust the transport system.
2 Anyone else sick of hearing about these teams suffering from short turnarounds? Were not rugby players all singing loudly a month ago how much they loved the shortened domestic competition?
3 What is more irritating? Those 90 seconds at the start or the new camera angles of Sky cam?